# \[APP\] Aqara & Xiaomi Smart Home - Simplify your life with a smarter home **URL:** \ **Category:** Apps\ **Tags:** app, zigbee\ **Created:** [August 22, 2018, 8:18pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156 "2018-08-22T20:18:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 108
**Author:** ![JaccoStraaijer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/jaccostraaijer/32/11777_2.png) [@JaccoStraaijer](https://community.homey.app/u/JaccoStraaijer)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2020, 5:18pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/2272 "2020-10-12T17:18:18Z")
Thanks for the update @TedTolboom ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_den\_Ridder](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/richard_den_ridder/32/27886_2.png) [@Richard\_den\_Ridder](https://community.homey.app/u/Richard_den_Ridder)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2020, 5:21pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/2273 "2020-10-12T17:21:38Z")
this is one that is added like a generic zigbee device: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/e/b/ebdae2562a8621b5c8ad886ac999672f59ef2366.png) ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/5/9/59e537d0d6b977105c55a5839f863064b4d99b6a.png) and this is the one that is functional: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/1/6/160b110aec0aee47b9320148d86c5ed47a5a2ff9.png) ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/f/4/f4b6d7ee243917fc25a38b6160237569601fda59.png) hope this helps ---
**Author:** ![TedTolboom](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/tedtolboom/32/12081_2.png) [@TedTolboom](https://community.homey.app/u/TedTolboom)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2020, 6:38pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/2274 "2020-10-12T18:38:43Z")
> [@Richard\_den\_Ridder](#): > > this is one that is added like a generic zigbee device: > ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/e/b/ebdae2562a8621b5c8ad886ac999672f59ef2366.png) > ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/5/9/59e537d0d6b977105c55a5839f863064b4d99b6a.png) Yes, it does… Although we initially though differently, you are (as with 97% of the app users) still running on Homey v4.2.0 and the app version 0.8.0. Which I can see since as of Homey v5 the zb\_profile\_id and zb\_device\_id are no longer used / reported. In Homey v0.8.0, the manufacturer name `LUMI` linked to the light sensor, like with all other Xiaomi / Aqara devices. After the release of v5, I learned that Xiaomi has released a “new” version that reports `XIAOMI` as manufacturer name… Since this is not declared in the app, it is not recognized during inclusion. In the v5 compatible app, I’ve already added the additional manufacturer name. But I can’t update the current v4.2 compatible app due to a limitation to the App Store. If you have the option to install the app through the command line interface, I could release an update to the GitHub repository. ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_den\_Ridder](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/richard_den_ridder/32/27886_2.png) [@Richard\_den\_Ridder](https://community.homey.app/u/Richard_den_Ridder)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2020, 7:42pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/2275 "2020-10-12T19:42:06Z")
I was thinking about updating to v5 in the near future, just checking if my must have apps are compatible. I haven’t installed an app via the command line option, but there is a first for everything 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_de\_Vos](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/peter_de_vos/32/151925_2.png) [@Peter\_de\_Vos](https://community.homey.app/u/Peter_de_Vos)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2020, 7:46pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/2276 "2020-10-12T19:46:03Z")
This one is availeble in the appstore > **[Aqara](https://homey.app/nl-nl/app/com.xiaomi-mi/Aqara/)** > > Vereenvoudig uw leven met een slimmer huis ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_den\_Ridder](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/richard_den_ridder/32/27886_2.png) [@Richard\_den\_Ridder](https://community.homey.app/u/Richard_den_Ridder)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 11:11am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/2278 "2020-10-13T11:11:33Z")
I have set up everything I need to install via CLI, if you could provide me the link to the github you are refering to? ---
**Author:** ![Awangens](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/awangens/32/7789_2.png) [@Awangens](https://community.homey.app/u/Awangens)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 12:41pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/2279 "2020-10-13T12:41:28Z")
Will there be possible to get motion state high/low into [https://insights.homey.app/](https://insights.homey.app/) in v5? Currently we have battery and luminance as options in insights. ---
**Author:** ![TedTolboom](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/tedtolboom/32/12081_2.png) [@TedTolboom](https://community.homey.app/u/TedTolboom)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 7:07pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/2280 "2020-10-13T19:07:07Z")
> [@Richard\_den\_Ridder](#): > > I have set up everything I need to install via CLI, if you could provide me the link to the github you are refering to? If you install v0.8.1 update from the master branch through CLI, it should install the light sensor fine: [https://github.com/TedTolboom/com.xiaomi-mi-zigbee/tree/master](https://github.com/TedTolboom/com.xiaomi-mi-zigbee/tree/master) ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_den\_Ridder](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/richard_den_ridder/32/27886_2.png) [@Richard\_den\_Ridder](https://community.homey.app/u/Richard_den_Ridder)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 8:46pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/2281 "2020-10-13T20:46:14Z")
Hi Ted, you are right, it installed instantly. Thank you! ---
**Author:** ![the\_MANAGER](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/the_manager/32/29310_2.png) [@the\_MANAGER](https://community.homey.app/u/the_MANAGER)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2020, 5:02am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/2282 "2020-10-14T05:02:08Z")
Having read this whole topic from top to bottom, I feel the need to share [THIS](https://community.homey.app/t/aeon-zw089-recessed-door-sensor/34834/17) piece of info, as it might prove useful to anyone having trouble including devices. Slightly off topic (but I have a question for [TedTolboom](https://community.homey.app/u/TedTolboom)) Do you know when or if this kind of device will be supported by Homey ? I believe that you, as a developer, have access to the Homey api’s and/or understand them better. Thanks. Xiaomi/ClearGrass/Qingping bluetooth **e-ink** temperature sensor: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/9/f/9f06ff8facc61eb3fa36c150f5663b256cfcd828.jpeg) ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/f/4/f45c07ab115475caf1d8f33c1b14c2dc2b49167d.jpeg) ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/6/f/6f79e9db39780d191353c6fb1ca3e5fd611bdba3.png) I have them and the **e-ink** screen is the best solution on the market to this day. ---
**Author:** ![robertklep](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/robertklep/32/160628_2.png) [@robertklep](https://community.homey.app/u/robertklep)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2020, 5:53am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/2283 "2020-10-14T05:53:51Z")
@the_MANAGER that’s a BT device, and my guess would be that it depends on NOTIFY characteristics, which aren’t supported by Homey (and I don’t think firmware v5 changes that). Given that a support request for these types of characteristics was made almost 2 years ago, and they still aren’t supported, doesn’t give me much hope they will be supported in the near future. ---
**Author:** ![MarcoG](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/marcog/32/36375_2.png) [@MarcoG](https://community.homey.app/u/MarcoG)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2020, 12:53pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/2284 "2020-10-14T12:53:17Z")
Today I received an Aqara Water Sensor. I tried to add the device to Homey via pinching the device until the blue led continuously blinks. After releasing the sensor the blinking stops almost immediately, but the device is not included. The instruction screen keeps on showing. I also did a reboot of the app and after that didn’t help a reboot of Homey. Later on I’ve tried to link the device to a Xiaomi Hub with success, so the device should work. I’m on the experimental version 5 and am using the latest Aqara app from Ted. Does anyone have a solution? ---
**Author:** ![the\_MANAGER](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/the_manager/32/29310_2.png) [@the\_MANAGER](https://community.homey.app/u/the_MANAGER)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2020, 1:34pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/2285 "2020-10-14T13:34:41Z")
Here’s how I did with mine (I also am on the Homey experimental 5): Hold = long press, like several seconds, more than 1 at least Pinch = short press, like you press on your keys when you type 1. Take the sensor close to Homey (1 meter range will suffice) 2. In one hand I have the sensor, in the other, my iPhone with Homey app open 3. My iPhone hand is more than 1m away from Homey and is not in between Homey and the Aqara sensor … you can laugh but … 4. in the App, add device, Aqara … , Water Sensor and after you hit the green “continue” button, wait for the “drawing/explanation to appear” 5. Hold the sensor top pressed for 5s or so, until the blue led quickly blinks 3…4 times but no more than 6s 6. After you let go, start pinching the sensor, every 1…2 seconds or so, until the phone inclusion animation finishes. 7. enjoy Troubleshooting: 1. Xiaomi makes this sensor and is branded MI or Aqara … it behaves different, there is another app called Xiaomi Mi Home which you can install on your Homey and try with that … if you think you got some “special edition” kind of Xiaomi water sensor. 2. Reset the sensor … wait for 5m … try again. 3. Get some holy water and splash that little bastard, the chinese spirits within should now be gone. ---
**Author:** ![MarcoG](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/marcog/32/36375_2.png) [@MarcoG](https://community.homey.app/u/MarcoG)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2020, 2:03pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/2286 "2020-10-14T14:03:36Z")
Hi Manager, Tried your suggestion, having a blue thumb now from pinching the sensor every 2 seconds, but no luck yet. Will try again this evening. ---
**Author:** ![Igy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/igy/32/22144_2.png) [@Igy](https://community.homey.app/u/Igy)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2020, 7:21pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/2287 "2020-10-14T19:21:53Z")
It took me maybe more than 20 attempts to be able to include it. Just keep trying. ---
**Author:** ![Mike1233](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/mike1233/32/20991_2.png) [@Mike1233](https://community.homey.app/u/Mike1233)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2020, 7:23pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/2288 "2020-10-14T19:23:21Z")
I have had a moisture sensor that I also did not get paired. After pressing and holding for the first 4 seconds, the blue LED flashed. Then press briefly every 2 seconds. But after 3x or so the led did not turn on and only with the 5th or 6th time it did. Then the meantime was too long and connection failed. The other sensor that I had received at the same time worked in one go. This was on version 4.2.0 Homey fw. I threw the sensor away. ---
**Author:** ![robertklep](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/robertklep/32/160628_2.png) [@robertklep](https://community.homey.app/u/robertklep)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2020, 7:26pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/2289 "2020-10-14T19:26:51Z")
> [@Mike1233](#): > > I threw the sensor away. Too bad, I have a few of them and I really like them! I could use another one to combine it with a rain sensor. ---
**Author:** ![Mike1233](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/mike1233/32/20991_2.png) [@Mike1233](https://community.homey.app/u/Mike1233)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2020, 7:33pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/2290 "2020-10-14T19:33:13Z")
> [@robertklep](#): > > Too bad, I have a few of them and I really like them! I could use another one to combine it with a rain sensor. Sorry, i didn’t know that you needed one. ---
**Author:** ![Jan\_Peeters](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/jan_peeters/32/86660_2.png) [@Jan\_Peeters](https://community.homey.app/u/Jan_Peeters)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2020, 6:06pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/2291 "2020-10-16T18:06:51Z")
Reading through the Zigbee app topic might not proove to be the best strategy… when looking for a BT sensor… > [@Xiaomi temperature sensor](https://community.homey.app/t/xiaomi-temperature-sensor/35901/11): > > Have a look at: [https://homey.app/nl-nl/app/com.tuya.zigbee/Tuya-Zigbee/](https://homey.app/nl-nl/app/com.tuya.zigbee/Tuya-Zigbee/) [image] ` The App maker, you can find here: [Tuya Zigbee App](https://community.homey.app/t/tuya-zigbee-app/26439/12) ---
**Author:** ![the\_MANAGER](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/the_manager/32/29310_2.png) [@the\_MANAGER](https://community.homey.app/u/the_MANAGER)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2020, 8:10pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/2292 "2020-10-16T20:10:58Z")
Hi, I’m not looking for a BT sensor. I have them already. I’m not looking for zigbee sensors with lcd display. I am looking for a zigbee sensor with **e-ink** display. Meanwhile, I took the opportunity to ask [TED](https://community.homey.app/u/TedTolboom) if he, as a developer, knows if that type of BT sensors are supported by Homey in any way (until I find the zigbee ones), as I could not find the info myself … and he’s active on many topics, and is involved in development, thus knowing more than me. So, if anybody knows of some temperature sensors with e-ink display … thank you in advance … 😉 [Previous page](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156.md?page=107) [Next page](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156.md?page=109)