# \[APP\] Aqara & Xiaomi Smart Home - Simplify your life with a smarter home
**URL:** https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156
**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:** 129
### Author:  [@TedTolboom](https://community.homey.app/u/TedTolboom)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2021, 9:20am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/2723 "2021-01-04T09:20:45Z")
This is a common misperception for the curtain track direction; there is no default correct setting.
The curtain controller / motor has a default firmware setting (used in the app), but the actual installation of the controller on the track and mounting of the carrier to the left or right side of the belt determines if the track direction is “reverse” or “normal”.
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### Author:  [@Colima2710](https://community.homey.app/u/Colima2710)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2021, 12:45pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/2724 "2021-01-04T12:45:19Z")
@TedTolboom is this reversed control also applicable for the wired curtain motor? Not B1
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### Author:  [@TedTolboom](https://community.homey.app/u/TedTolboom)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2021, 1:03pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/2725 "2021-01-04T13:03:39Z")
No, not yet… this version uses a custom attribute definition that I will need to get working first.
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### Author:  [@Colima2710](https://community.homey.app/u/Colima2710)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2021, 1:09pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/2726 "2021-01-04T13:09:00Z")
Thanks, i will wait in patience. If you need testing let me know!
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### Author:  [@HarmJ](https://community.homey.app/u/HarmJ)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2021, 3:33pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/2727 "2021-01-04T15:33:13Z")
I reversed it on all my tracks. Works as used before. Thnx!
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### Author:  [@TedTolboom](https://community.homey.app/u/TedTolboom)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2021, 3:34pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/2728 "2021-01-04T15:34:56Z")
> [@HarmJ](#):
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> Works as used before. Thnx!
Works as used before can be interpreted in two ways. 😉
I choose as in, open = open?
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### Author:  [@HarmJ](https://community.homey.app/u/HarmJ)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2021, 3:37pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/2729 "2021-01-04T15:37:43Z")
Yeah I installed a fibaro dimmer 2. 1 click lights on 2 clicks open curtain 3 clicks close curtain. 2 clicks switched to close curtain after the update. With the reverse option 2 clicks is open again 🙂
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### Author:  [@TedTolboom](https://community.homey.app/u/TedTolboom)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2021, 3:47pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/2730 "2021-01-04T15:47:05Z")
Great, thanks for the feedback.
I was already afraid to have to admit to my wife that the Sunday afternoon spend did not result in solving this issue 😉
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### Author:  [@rreijnhoudt](https://community.homey.app/u/rreijnhoudt)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2021, 4:32pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/2731 "2021-01-04T16:32:13Z")
Super, works like a charm again!
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### Author:  [@MiteZZ](https://community.homey.app/u/MiteZZ)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2021, 9:18pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/2732 "2021-01-04T21:18:25Z")
Hi @TedTolboom I still cannot add my motor to homey. If I want to add the controller homey sees the device but then the error that the device is not responding again. Do you have some tips I should definitely follow to add the device correctly?
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### Author:  [@HarmJ](https://community.homey.app/u/HarmJ)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2021, 7:22am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/2733 "2021-01-05T07:22:47Z")
Keep it closer to homey and try to add it again. Or add it via the developers page.
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### Author:  [@MiteZZ](https://community.homey.app/u/MiteZZ)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2021, 8:57am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/2734 "2021-01-05T08:57:21Z")
Tried to add the motor via the developers page. But getting the same error.
I’ve managed to add one motor last evening to homey, but this morning it didn’t response to a command. And gives the error the device could not be reached.
thanks for your help anyway @HarmJ and @TedTolboom
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### Author:  [@Robin\_van\_Kekem](https://community.homey.app/u/Robin_van_Kekem)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2021, 9:18am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/2735 "2021-01-05T09:18:48Z")
To ask Google if the window/door is closed/open.
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### Author:  [@HarmJ](https://community.homey.app/u/HarmJ)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2021, 10:55am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/2736 "2021-01-05T10:55:30Z")
I think you should add some extra zigbee extenders/repeaters. Maybe the ikea repeater is an option for you.
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### Author:  [@MiteZZ](https://community.homey.app/u/MiteZZ)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2021, 11:19am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/2737 "2021-01-05T11:19:48Z")
I’ve got 8 routers in my living room, and the curtain motor is right below one of them. Don’t think that’s the issue honestly. But I don’t get it either why it’s not working, bit frustrating. Last night the motor responded well, the calibration worked. Until this morning, want to open the curtain, no response.
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### Author:  [@HarmJ](https://community.homey.app/u/HarmJ)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2021, 12:05pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/2738 "2021-01-05T12:05:48Z")
I had the same issue in the beginning. Adding an extra router helped solving my problem. I also disconnected the battery/power sometimes. Now my curtains are stable for quite a while.
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### Author:  [@rvdeijk](https://community.homey.app/u/rvdeijk)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2021, 12:06pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/2739 "2021-01-05T12:06:45Z")
> [@MiteZZ](#):
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> I’ve got 8 routers in my living room
What kind of routers? Maybe you have light bulbs and somebody cut the power by using the switch? And for that reason the router constantly goes away inside homey, which could create unstable behaviour if your enddevice was relying on that light bulb for his zigbee route?
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### Author:  [@MiteZZ](https://community.homey.app/u/MiteZZ)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2021, 12:16pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/2740 "2021-01-05T12:16:15Z")
The nearest is an osram power plug. And homey is 6m away from the plug and the motor. I’ll keep trying!
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### Author:  [@MiteZZ](https://community.homey.app/u/MiteZZ)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2021, 4:11pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/2741 "2021-01-06T16:11:32Z")
Finally it worked! Thanks all!
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### Author:  [@prosumer](https://community.homey.app/u/prosumer)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2021, 7:24pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/2742 "2021-01-08T19:24:26Z")
My goal is to receive a push notification when mail is delivered at my home.
I’m hoping to achieve this by sticking an [Aqara Smart Vibration Sensor](https://www.aqara.com/us/vibration_sensor.html) on the inside of the flap of my letterbox and using this App to trigger a flow.
The sensor will arrive next week, but it suddenly occurred to me that this might not work as I planned; my letterbox is not a physical box outside of my house, but a hole in my front door. Thus, when I open the door the flap will **also** _move_…
However, it will probably not _tilt_ much, nor open/close (_drop_).
Would it be possible to only trigger a flow if the vibration sensor detects a certain _tilt_ (or _drop_), but **not** when it _vibrates_/_moves_?
If so, this setup might still work to achieve my goal?
(Or should I better try an [Aqara Door & Window Sensor](https://www.aqara.com/en/door_and_window_sensor.html) instead, with the sensor unit on the door and the magnet on the flap?)
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