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After using the horrible Home Assistant, then Smarthings i moved to xiaomi Aqara + Mijia smarthome and it's the best thing i have ever done in my house. I got more then 120+ aqara/mijia devices including hubs, many switches and dimmers, cubes, ceiling lights, spot leds, motion sensors, aqara relays, smoke sensors, smart sockets, thermometers, light sensors, flood sensors, led strips, magnetic door sensors, smart bulbs, IR blasters, smart curtain motors and it's the best smart home you can get! Everything just works! Nothing crashes after updating.. 100% reliable and they keep pushing fw updates to old devices, adding more features and improving it. The best thing i have done in my house ever.
Also working great with Zigbee2MQTT - I use the temperature sensors without issues. The only reason I don't have more stuff from them yet is because they have been out of stock on Amazon
The last sensor you showed was a TVOC (Total Volatile Organic Compound)/Temperature/Humidity sensor. I set one of these up in my woodworking shop to give me alerts whenever the air quality drops below a certain level.
if you don't want the battery operated wireless switch, you can also wired their smart switch and change the setting to 'unwired', then you can have automation rules set to switch on/off anything you want
@@jerryyau9099 because he had two switches on both sides and doesn’t want on switch to turn off the other so having one as a wireless switch would turn on and off the other switch without cutting power to the switch on the other side but changing the setting on a wired switch would make is the same as the wireless on and thus no needing to change batteries every year or so
Can the Switches be wired in a 2 way setup? (3 way as Americans would say) So in your example, could the light switch you replaced with a wireless light, not just have been another wired one?
The Aqara cube really is a crazy thing, and has so many features that I don't think anyone would use it all. Also,, they all work great with Home Assistant. Just had to say that because "Oh, the Home Assistant" :). I don't use the Aqara or Mi hubs, but they do just work with majority of Zigbee co-ordinators :) I have a few Aqara sensors as they are cheap and they just work.
Now, my question? I have LifX bulbs in my whole house and had the issue with not being able to control my LifX bulbs if i am not connected to the internet, would i be able to control my lights if the bulbs are connected to the hub just like Philips Hue use their hub?
I’ve been using the Aqara wall switches for a while now and they are really nice! Pretty easy to set up in Home Assistant, no stupid neutral needed and the remote switches are the perfect size to cover up the massive hole when taking out a nineteenth century Luddite clicker (take note, literally every other manufacturer!) And I think they look nicer than the touch ones, plus the click they make is both satisfying and helps those who can’t get their brains round not pressing a button. The kitchen is the only place in my home that I’ve not installed any yet, and that’s purely because I’ve still got to sort out the dodgy lighting in there - which means emptying the room above of everything, pulling up the vinyl floor, lifting up floorboards and locating the old transformers that have clearly blown.
How do you do it sir? Another great video! I’m in the process of swapping all my wall switches with the Aqara H1s. From your test does the no-neutral wire version act as a Zigbee router or is it just the neutral wired one that acts as a router?
My instinct was to turn off the moment you started talking about your plums, but I stayed until the end out of pure morbid curiosity and glad I did. Learned a lot as usual and now I have more smart stuff on my shopping list. You are costing me dearly Hibbert, but I thank you for it . . . .
Paul... Don't change your amazing! Even my Mrs who is perplexed by my home automation obsession found this video halarious!, I have bought so many different sensor types to try and make life/tech habit easier, ZigBee WiFi tuya and now I want these ones :D
Am glad you reviewed these I have 40 window and door sensors, 4 vibration sensors, 4 leak sensors, and 20 thermal/barometer sensors all on a conbee attached to home assistant, it's all working well so far. Worth noting that the door sensors temperature sensor on all our are off by 2-5 degrees so I ahve to do a manual adjustment on them all at some point with the home assistant configuration. Moes house light switches (ZigBee no neutral), their round ZigBee barometer and pir's are also worth a look I need more of the light switches but so far the ground floor has them in our place and they are great and work as a light in home assistant so you can trigger them to bring the lights on that circuit with ease.
Geofencing? Sunrise sunset? Sounds like something homekit can do by default! 😁 Have been holding off on the Aqara ecosystem for a while for my homekit setup due to the region issues in the past, but may look into it again now. Noice.
Love the Aqara stuff. The only thing I’ve been trying to figure out is there a way to link the sensors directly to the Amazon zigbee hub? And the app is great and when you use it with HomeKit the geofencing features are effectively added. Also I can relate to the two switches on a single circuit. Freaking nightmare.
Can their devices and switches run locally without internet connection? Also do you need smart bulbs with them or can they control an ordinary dimmable LED light/strip?
I've had the cube for a while, tied directly to HomeAssistant via zigbee stick. It is my "work from home" controller, flipping to a certain side controls the color of my RGB "busy" light, rotating it controls the volume of my "She who shall not be named" media player, etc.
Thanks Paul, Happy Saturday buddy, another informative and entertaining video. I quite like the aquara stuff, you certainly get a fair bit of bang for your buck. I tested the motion sensor a few months ago with my Hubitat Hub and it worked well.
Great video. I'm about to purchase but wanted to know if the hub has good coverage/range. We have an old house with thick walls. I assumed as it is zigbee that it would need the hub to reach all of the devices/sensors I add to my set up? Or does it work on my wifi network? I currently have good wifi in all rooms as I have Sky Q mesh extender throughout.
It's all zigbee and the individual devices should extend the range but it will of course depend on your house and how far apart the devices are. It's probably your best bet between the two options (zigbee and WiFi)
Great stuff. Why is it so many of the "No Neutral" light switches need a large capacitor fitted at the bulb end, something you don't seem to mention in your videos.
My wife love the cube, and is a great control for here. We have it connected it to Deconz in Home Assistant. If the cube is shaken during the day, it tells our grandchild through the speakers to leave it alone :-D And in the evening it does the night routine, like turning off the light, locking the front door, giving her a loving goodnight message etc. :-) It also controls the dinnertable lights with double tap, and turning it etc. It's a brilliant way of control. But regarding sunrise / sunset, the motion sensor has light sensor, and there are also light sensors available so you can actually react better than a sunrise / sunset :-)
HomeKit integration means geofencing for things like switching off alarms is doable. Can get a prompt on Apple Watch to ask if it should switch off guarding. Very neat.
Any idea why the light switches are not available from anywhere in the UK? Exactly what I'm looking for. I had the same issue trying to buy the Broadlink lc1-uk light switches following your video on that.
Aqara H1 switch is £53 for the 1 gang switch on Amazon UK currently. Broadlink LC1-1 currently £28. Aside from Apple HomeKit support, is there any reason to favour the Aqara?
Really interested in purchasing the 1 Gang switch and battery powered switch but Amazon appear to only have the 2 gang version of the wired switch listed! Any idea where to get them? Do they really need the Aqara Hub or will they work with other zigbee hubs?
Hi, great video again. I am using the Aquara products with Hubitat for awhile now. I found the door sensor a bit unreliable, but know I started to think that it is maybe the Hubitat plugin and not the sensor itself. One Question to the switches, I have not seen them so far. Do they still work if the connection to the server is down? Or Wifi is down? Since I have a "Smart Home" @Home, I noticed how "not smart et all" it becomes without Internet and you got no way to turn the lights on and sit in the dark until your ISP decides you get Internet access again...
Hey! I'm new to smart home currently renovating my house and want to do a lot of smart things. What devices can I add to that hub besides the aqara devices. I'm looking for bulbs led strips connectors and all recommendations are welcomed! Thank you guys for helping me.
Can you connect aqara door switch direct to an Alexa echo zigbee hub? My alexa detects it as a lum smart device but then it goes unresponsive. I want to set up a scene or routine where when teh hatch opens the attic lights come on and teh aqara switch seems useful for this. But i dont want to by another hub.
Looking for a small gu10 bulb that actually fits in a gu10 down light without protruding. I have Shelly and noticed that they now do one but at 16.70 for one it's not cheap
Hello Paul! If I buy a smart switch no neutral from aqara with 3 gangs but I have just one line for light connected to the switch can I use the others 2 buttons to control others things around the house like led strip or smart plug with routines?
When Home kit still does better than Google home 😔 Honestly thank you for the video! I'm not an Apple user unfortunately, so I hope google does more things to the Google home products and app!
Hi Paul. Another great video. Hoping you have some answers on the following scenario with light switches. Upstairs a single switch that controls upstairs landing lighting. Downstairs I have a double light switch that controls upstairs and downstairs. How could I make the upstairs a double AQARA switch so I can also turn on downstairs too? ( lights are normal LED downlighters). Thanks in advance 👍🏻
Paul for the 2 ways switch that i had in my house, i used 2 wired switches (to not be replacing batteries) and just connect the live wire (i think os called that) and the other always in on position :)
So I'm a home automation dummy newb. Say I have lights from Govee and Lifx, but want to use the switches from Aqara and the really cool cube thing. Do I buy the hub, the accessories, and the lights all work? And I'm assuming things like Flic switches won't work with these? Or will they?
Could you not use the automations in the Apple home app (sunset/sunrise) to control the alarm? I have the older hub and use it as doorbell and then using Apple home and homebridge it uses the driveway cam so when the button is pressed, the Apple TV and phones get a notification and picture. The next purchase is the temp sensors so can see the temperature in different rooms around the house. 👍
Hey Paul, do you have the model number of the switch. The link seems to only display the wireless model? I'd be interested to know how well the switch works with Hubitat without using the aqara hub too. Any ideas guys?
Thank you again Paul! I love your videos. Could you please sometimes cover a situation if (oh!) zigbee hub doesn't have enough range for the whole house....what to do then?
That's what a Zigbee router is for, essentialls almost all permanently powered Zigbee devices (bulbs, sockets etc.) act as routers: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zigbee
To get HomeKit to work you have to have an Apple Hub (Apple TV, HomePod, or iPad) and an Apple iPhone is not a hub. Once you have the Apple HomeKit set up with a hub, then you can control it with the Apple iPhone. Since I have this set up in HomeKit, I use the Home app to determine geofencing of when I come home and when I leave. So I don't need geofencing in the Aqara app. But it would be nice to have it natively in the Aqara app if you only wanted to do all of your automations there. I currently have 39 Aqara devices including 5 G2H Camera hubs, and 3 other hubs sprinkled throughout my house. I have 29 sensors (TVOC, contact, motion, water leak, and temperature/humidity), one wireless mini switch, and one smart plug (used for home/away automations). I am planning on adding even more in the coming months. They all work flawlessly in my HomeKit home.
I have several of the temp sensors and the batterys seem to be good for a year or so. This includes the ones that are in the conservatory or outside under the porch roof.
One of the draws for me to Zigbee through Aqara was my disappointment with a series of indoor cameras I tried to detect motion through my window of deliveries to the front door. Yes, yes, I know, the glare/reflective quality of the window stymie the whole detecting motion thing, but…. My plan is to use a motion sensor OUTside to trigger the camera to start recording through the window. Cameras I have or tried are the Eufy and VOCOlinc-budget indoor models. Do you think that setup is possible from within the Aqara’s app, Home app or some other clever mix of features and devices?
Good to see the aqara stuff is getting easier to purchase without having to result to aliexpress and waiting months. I've been waiting for the H1 wall switches to become available. Looking at the Aqara amazon store, currently, you can only buy the H1 Wireless switch, not the wired (no neutral switch) that you demonstrated in the video. A tad disappointing as I'd like to do a setup very similar to how you wired up your living room setup.
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The s sounds of Paul celebrating is the best sound in the world, for do i make it my default ringtone
@@SunilKhiataniHK How is a ridiculous fake laugh anything but annoying? LoL.
After using the horrible Home Assistant, then Smarthings i moved to xiaomi Aqara + Mijia smarthome and it's the best thing i have ever done in my house. I got more then 120+ aqara/mijia devices including hubs, many switches and dimmers, cubes, ceiling lights, spot leds, motion sensors, aqara relays, smoke sensors, smart sockets, thermometers, light sensors, flood sensors, led strips, magnetic door sensors, smart bulbs, IR blasters, smart curtain motors and it's the best smart home you can get! Everything just works! Nothing crashes after updating.. 100% reliable and they keep pushing fw updates to old devices, adding more features and improving it. The best thing i have done in my house ever.
That's the first two way solution I've seen. I just need a pull cord smart switch for it to work.
Here to confirm for anyone wondering. Aqara sensors and switches work with a Conbee II stick and ZHA integration in Home Assistant.
I was about to ask that! Thxs!
Yes, and they also work with the deConz integration
Also works with the Xiaomi Gateway 3 too
Also working great with Zigbee2MQTT - I use the temperature sensors without issues. The only reason I don't have more stuff from them yet is because they have been out of stock on Amazon
Work perfectly with Zigbee2MQTT.io as well, been using those since 2019
The last sensor you showed was a TVOC (Total Volatile Organic Compound)/Temperature/Humidity sensor. I set one of these up in my woodworking shop to give me alerts whenever the air quality drops below a certain level.
Ohh the Zigbee !!! I’m wearing my t-shirt to watch this episode 👍
That’s right - these are episodes now in the series, Paul’s life haha
if you don't want the battery operated wireless switch, you can also wired their smart switch and change the setting to 'unwired', then you can have automation rules set to switch on/off anything you want
Any idea if the Moes one does the same?
@@house89147 Yes MOES do have the same type of battery powered switch using Zigbee 3.0
Alex can explain? Hahaha why must set to unwired
@@jerryyau9099 because he had two switches on both sides and doesn’t want on switch to turn off the other so having one as a wireless switch would turn on and off the other switch without cutting power to the switch on the other side but changing the setting on a wired switch would make is the same as the wireless on and thus no needing to change batteries every year or so
@@joshua01 but I think this only works for those with neutral wire.
Can you check if the zigbee sensors & switches work on the Tuya hub, please?
Using aqara for home assistant for quite a while. By far my favorite sensor type. Really wondering about the mystery machine!
Can the Switches be wired in a 2 way setup? (3 way as Americans would say)
So in your example, could the light switch you replaced with a wireless light, not just have been another wired one?
Thank You for all of your videos that you did. I am enjoying all of them.
Thanks man ❤️❤️❤️
The Aqara cube really is a crazy thing, and has so many features that I don't think anyone would use it all.
Also,, they all work great with Home Assistant. Just had to say that because "Oh, the Home Assistant" :).
I don't use the Aqara or Mi hubs, but they do just work with majority of Zigbee co-ordinators :) I have a few Aqara sensors as they are cheap and they just work.
Now, my question? I have LifX bulbs in my whole house and had the issue with not being able to control my LifX bulbs if i am not connected to the internet, would i be able to control my lights if the bulbs are connected to the hub just like Philips Hue use their hub?
I’ve been using the Aqara wall switches for a while now and they are really nice! Pretty easy to set up in Home Assistant, no stupid neutral needed and the remote switches are the perfect size to cover up the massive hole when taking out a nineteenth century Luddite clicker (take note, literally every other manufacturer!) And I think they look nicer than the touch ones, plus the click they make is both satisfying and helps those who can’t get their brains round not pressing a button. The kitchen is the only place in my home that I’ve not installed any yet, and that’s purely because I’ve still got to sort out the dodgy lighting in there - which means emptying the room above of everything, pulling up the vinyl floor, lifting up floorboards and locating the old transformers that have clearly blown.
Does the Aqara range of products require a constant internet connection?
Hi Paul! Thanks for another great video!
Can you use the Philips hue bridge instead of buying the aqara hub? Thanks
How do you do it sir? Another great video! I’m in the process of swapping all my wall switches with the Aqara H1s. From your test does the no-neutral wire version act as a Zigbee router or is it just the neutral wired one that acts as a router?
My first vid from you and loved it! Great stuff! Keep it coming.
JUst because I can do sun rise and sunset via HOMEASSISTANT. lol.. I love watching your videos you crack me up. thanks for the laughs
Dude, your video production quality is awesome. Kudos
My instinct was to turn off the moment you started talking about your plums, but I stayed until the end out of pure morbid curiosity and glad I did.
Learned a lot as usual and now I have more smart stuff on my shopping list.
You are costing me dearly Hibbert, but I thank you for it . . . .
Love aquara connects to Smartthings well with some drivers . Use to monitor my freezer & fridge temperature.
I think you're supposed to dip that "blank" instruction manual in lemon juice.
Paul... Don't change your amazing! Even my Mrs who is perplexed by my home automation obsession found this video halarious!, I have bought so many different sensor types to try and make life/tech habit easier, ZigBee WiFi tuya and now I want these ones :D
Am glad you reviewed these I have 40 window and door sensors, 4 vibration sensors, 4 leak sensors, and 20 thermal/barometer sensors all on a conbee attached to home assistant, it's all working well so far. Worth noting that the door sensors temperature sensor on all our are off by 2-5 degrees so I ahve to do a manual adjustment on them all at some point with the home assistant configuration. Moes house light switches (ZigBee no neutral), their round ZigBee barometer and pir's are also worth a look I need more of the light switches but so far the ground floor has them in our place and they are great and work as a light in home assistant so you can trigger them to bring the lights on that circuit with ease.
😂 The Bane cut away had me rolling! Dammit Paul! I was sipping on a drink at that VERY moment! Almost spit it out all over my TV.
Geofencing? Sunrise sunset? Sounds like something homekit can do by default! 😁
Have been holding off on the Aqara ecosystem for a while for my homekit setup due to the region issues in the past, but may look into it again now. Noice.
I’m in the US and Aqara makes up 80% of my HomeKit ecosystem. It’s incredibly stable and for the price it’s well worth the money.
Love the Aqara stuff.
The only thing I’ve been trying to figure out is there a way to link the sensors directly to the Amazon zigbee hub?
And the app is great and when you use it with HomeKit the geofencing features are effectively added.
Also I can relate to the two switches on a single circuit. Freaking nightmare.
Have you figured out if there's a way to do it?
Can you add a IFTTT layer to add those sunset/sunrise timers and also geofencing?
Can their devices and switches run locally without internet connection? Also do you need smart bulbs with them or can they control an ordinary dimmable LED light/strip?
I have these with my Home Assistant setup and they run locally. I use the Conbee2 and use the door sensors and motion sensors to trigger smart lights.
Oh and the door sensors also trigger notifications if the doors are left open for a certain amount of time
@@MikeCorsten great thanks!
@@inderveerjohal7218 no worries and good luck
I've had the cube for a while, tied directly to HomeAssistant via zigbee stick. It is my "work from home" controller, flipping to a certain side controls the color of my RGB "busy" light, rotating it controls the volume of my "She who shall not be named" media player, etc.
haha, love these videos, always make me chuckle. Thanks for the content, another brand to look into now for my build.
Thanks man! They're well worth a look. Really well made devices and probably the best bang for buck out there!
Thanks Paul, Happy Saturday buddy, another informative and entertaining video. I quite like the aquara stuff, you certainly get a fair bit of bang for your buck. I tested the motion sensor a few months ago with my Hubitat Hub and it worked well.
What was the pre-release device?
You know what, I'm still not sure! 😂😂😂
@@paulhibbert In which case, I definitely want one! 😂
It’s an air quality meter, they have launched them in the US
I assume this one: www.aqara.com/eu/product/tvoc-air-quality-monitor
Does the cube connect to other ZigBee hubs, like the sonoff or does it require its own ?
Great video. I'm about to purchase but wanted to know if the hub has good coverage/range. We have an old house with thick walls. I assumed as it is zigbee that it would need the hub to reach all of the devices/sensors I add to my set up? Or does it work on my wifi network?
I currently have good wifi in all rooms as I have Sky Q mesh extender throughout.
It's all zigbee and the individual devices should extend the range but it will of course depend on your house and how far apart the devices are. It's probably your best bet between the two options (zigbee and WiFi)
great, the first review I've seen of the two wire wall switches. Thank you!
Great stuff. Why is it so many of the "No Neutral" light switches need a large capacitor fitted at the bulb end, something you don't seem to mention in your videos.
Strange with the Zigbee 3.0 no neutral switch, they don't even provide the capacitor now.
@@daniellin319 I don't use Zigbee, but a lot of the Wi-Fi switches on Amazon have capacitors included.
The Aqara D1 (no neutral) don't need them
@@enm22 and 2 of my Aqara D1 down after 8 months. At this rate I will go for any much cheaper Sonoff/ Tuya switches from now onward. 😢😢
Was the first light switch powered from mains, it look like a straight replacement , only the remote switch is showing on amazon.
Hi. Do these light switches work with HomeKit without a hub now? Thanks
Wait... what was the preproduction mystery device? I need to know.
If you go to the US Amazon link, it'll show you the product...
My wife love the cube, and is a great control for here. We have it connected it to Deconz in Home Assistant. If the cube is shaken during the day, it tells our grandchild through the speakers to leave it alone :-D And in the evening it does the night routine, like turning off the light, locking the front door, giving her a loving goodnight message etc. :-) It also controls the dinnertable lights with double tap, and turning it etc. It's a brilliant way of control.
But regarding sunrise / sunset, the motion sensor has light sensor, and there are also light sensors available so you can actually react better than a sunrise / sunset :-)
The blank instruction booklet had a QR code... did you scan it to see what it did?
HomeKit integration means geofencing for things like switching off alarms is doable. Can get a prompt on Apple Watch to ask if it should switch off guarding. Very neat.
Yes you can
I have a dimmable led light with 10 levels. Can I use an aqara light switch ? or they're just on/off ?
Any idea why the light switches are not available from anywhere in the UK? Exactly what I'm looking for. I had the same issue trying to buy the Broadlink lc1-uk light switches following your video on that.
I can’t see the wired no-neutral switch on the uk Amazon website….any ideas where I can get this?
After a year or so, my aqara tunable bulb can no longer be reset. I tried turning on and off the switch for 5 times, its no longer blinking.
Aqara H1 switch is £53 for the 1 gang switch on Amazon UK currently.
Broadlink LC1-1 currently £28. Aside from Apple HomeKit support, is there any reason to favour the Aqara?
Really interested in purchasing the 1 Gang switch and battery powered switch but Amazon appear to only have the 2 gang version of the wired switch listed! Any idea where to get them? Do they really need the Aqara Hub or will they work with other zigbee hubs?
Hi, great video again. I am using the Aquara products with Hubitat for awhile now. I found the door sensor a bit unreliable, but know I started to think that it is maybe the Hubitat plugin and not the sensor itself.
One Question to the switches, I have not seen them so far. Do they still work if the connection to the server is down? Or Wifi is down?
Since I have a "Smart Home" @Home, I noticed how "not smart et all" it becomes without Internet and you got no way to turn the lights on and sit in the dark until your ISP decides you get Internet access again...
Do have any issues when connected to China sever? And what is your hub version (China or US)? I'm planning to use them.
Hi Paul,
Did you try the Aqara led bulbs ?
Or are there other brands that I can use with the Aqara H2 hub ?
Love Aqara & Xiaomi stuff 😊 Awesome company and usually very affordable 😎
Yes! I started in 2019 with Aqara and paid just 7,50€/door sensor. Now they've gotten a bit more expensive but still have a good price!
Will xiaomi stuff work with an Aqara hub or do you need a separate one?
The camera includes a hub. What’s the benefit of getting also the gateway?
Hello, what kind of bulb is at 8:52? Who does the dimming? The bulb or the switch?Thanks
Can you use the single, double and hold options using the Alexa routines?
That scenario in your living room, is it like us with upstairs and downstairs light switches for the hallway and landing?
Just double check but I don’t think the ir blaster part of aqara allows homekit access meaning you can’t use your voice to turn on your tv
Will Aqara hubs work in Tuya/Smart Life?
Tried to install Home assistant core on mac. Impossible.
You didn’t mention the house saving water sensors! Seriously, one of these in my in-laws water heater Pan saved them from a flood!
Yes, those are awesome!
Are you sure that the IR transmitter can be integrated with HomeKit? For example, when I lock the door it triggers the tv to be turned off…?
Hi Paul, just wanna ask which is better, Ajax or Aqara?
Also works very well (and locally) with home assistant, which I know you love!
What bulb are you using with the Aqara hub?
Can Alexa see the mini switch’s to trigger routines or do I have to buy Flic?
Hey! I'm new to smart home currently renovating my house and want to do a lot of smart things. What devices can I add to that hub besides the aqara devices. I'm looking for bulbs led strips connectors and all recommendations are welcomed! Thank you guys for helping me.
Can you connect aqara door switch direct to an Alexa echo zigbee hub? My alexa detects it as a lum smart device but then it goes unresponsive. I want to set up a scene or routine where when teh hatch opens the attic lights come on and teh aqara switch seems useful for this. But i dont want to by another hub.
Aqara Cube is awesome, thank you for showing it, BTW great job with this channel, I love it 💪🏼
Looking for a small gu10 bulb that actually fits in a gu10 down light without protruding. I have Shelly and noticed that they now do one but at 16.70 for one it's not cheap
Hello Paul! If I buy a smart switch no neutral from aqara with 3 gangs but I have just one line for light connected to the switch can I use the others 2 buttons to control others things around the house like led strip or smart plug with routines?
When Home kit still does better than Google home 😔
Honestly thank you for the video!
I'm not an Apple user unfortunately, so I hope google does more things to the Google home products and app!
Hi Paul. Another great video. Hoping you have some answers on the following scenario with light switches. Upstairs a single switch that controls upstairs landing lighting. Downstairs I have a double light switch that controls upstairs and downstairs. How could I make the upstairs a double AQARA switch so I can also turn on downstairs too? ( lights are normal LED downlighters). Thanks in advance 👍🏻
I would have appreciated a more critical and detailed review of some of the items presented
It was sponsored. He does well considering it's sponsored.
@@SetitesTechAdventures he's got 2 sponsors on this video (plum + aqara). I would have preffered less marketing and sponsoring
@@yonutz333 He would probably prefer to earn a living
@@yonutz333 From what I can see so far from his videos, even though it's sponsored, he still do an honest review
Paul for the 2 ways switch that i had in my house, i used 2 wired switches (to not be replacing batteries) and just connect the live wire (i think os called that) and the other always in on position :)
So the Echo 4th Gen now have Zigbee hubs but how do you use them, do items who only work on Zigbee just connect on Alexa directly?
Quality video Paul, excellent work as always.
Thanks so much dude!
@@paulhibbert Oh the Zigbee😂😂👍😎
Amazon assistant or Google home is better for Aqara system? Thank u
So I'm a home automation dummy newb. Say I have lights from Govee and Lifx, but want to use the switches from Aqara and the really cool cube thing. Do I buy the hub, the accessories, and the lights all work? And I'm assuming things like Flic switches won't work with these? Or will they?
Could you not use the automations in the Apple home app (sunset/sunrise) to control the alarm?
I have the older hub and use it as doorbell and then using Apple home and homebridge it uses the driveway cam so when the button is pressed, the Apple TV and phones get a notification and picture.
The next purchase is the temp sensors so can see the temperature in different rooms around the house. 👍
Hi Paul. Say for example I do use philips hue..what's the best way to start if I also want this. Would I have to run both hubs and both apps??
Hi Paul, would you recommend Aqara over Ajax? Or Ajax is better?
Are Apple Homekit compatible Aqara components also compatible with Bosch Smart Home?
Hey Paul, do you have the model number of the switch. The link seems to only display the wireless model? I'd be interested to know how well the switch works with Hubitat without using the aqara hub too. Any ideas guys?
I love the cube! I use it for adjusting the volume on my 5.1 system, lol. Turn counter-/clockwise when the Aqara logo is on top, so much fun!
Is there possibility for multi user - to control system from two or more phones?
Does this stuff work with echo 4th gen as a hub?
Absolutely love those ZigBee no neutral lightswitches using them in my house with home assistant and the conbee
"The deathstar won't fund itself, young Skywalker! Will it, Lord Vader?" :-D
Do you know if these will work with the zigbee hub built into echo show?
Sorry, down to a single hub/gateway now: Tuya. One phone app (plus Alexa of course) and I have both WiFi and ZigBee covered. But thanks for playing.
I have alexa controlling a smart dimmer switch can i use the cube and hub to activate the dimmer and my lights?
Can you add tuya devices to the other without needing alexa for example as a middle man?
Hi Paul love your show by the way! Just to clarify can I control all these devices by my Samsung smart hub? Thanks
Thank you again Paul! I love your videos. Could you please sometimes cover a situation if (oh!) zigbee hub doesn't have enough range for the whole house....what to do then?
That's what a Zigbee router is for, essentialls almost all permanently powered Zigbee devices (bulbs, sockets etc.) act as routers: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zigbee
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To get HomeKit to work you have to have an Apple Hub (Apple TV, HomePod, or iPad) and an Apple iPhone is not a hub. Once you have the Apple HomeKit set up with a hub, then you can control it with the Apple iPhone.
Since I have this set up in HomeKit, I use the Home app to determine geofencing of when I come home and when I leave. So I don't need geofencing in the Aqara app. But it would be nice to have it natively in the Aqara app if you only wanted to do all of your automations there.
I currently have 39 Aqara devices including 5 G2H Camera hubs, and 3 other hubs sprinkled throughout my house. I have 29 sensors (TVOC, contact, motion, water leak, and temperature/humidity), one wireless mini switch, and one smart plug (used for home/away automations).
I am planning on adding even more in the coming months.
They all work flawlessly in my HomeKit home.
So you are saying it does work with Smart things hub. If so you could use astronomic time clock on Smart things to trigger.
I have several of the temp sensors and the batterys seem to be good for a year or so. This includes the ones that are in the conservatory or outside under the porch roof.
Also, door contact sensors on the letter box to know when post arrives is nice.
That's an awesome idea! Love it!
I bought 3 of them about 1.5 years ago, and one of them finally dipped below 60% (58%), so I guess about 3 years?
Love your videos mate, greetings from Peru.
I was wondering if you could sync the aqara device with the echo zigbee
I THINK it did detect them but I couldn't get the routines to react to them 🤔 I actually finished filming this a while ago!
One of the draws for me to Zigbee through Aqara was my disappointment with a series of indoor cameras I tried to detect motion through my window of deliveries to the front door. Yes, yes, I know, the glare/reflective quality of the window stymie the whole detecting motion thing, but…. My plan is to use a motion sensor OUTside to trigger the camera to start recording through the window. Cameras I have or tried are the Eufy and VOCOlinc-budget indoor models. Do you think that setup is possible from within the Aqara’s app, Home app or some other clever mix of features and devices?
Good to see the aqara stuff is getting easier to purchase without having to result to aliexpress and waiting months.
I've been waiting for the H1 wall switches to become available.
Looking at the Aqara amazon store, currently, you can only buy the H1 Wireless switch, not the wired (no neutral switch) that you demonstrated in the video.
A tad disappointing as I'd like to do a setup very similar to how you wired up your living room setup.
Result? Do you not mean resort to AliExpress?