# \[APP\] 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:** 32
**Author:** ![Rocodamelshekima](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/rocodamelshekima/32/8209_2.png) [@Rocodamelshekima](https://community.homey.app/u/Rocodamelshekima)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2019, 3:54pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/640 "2019-03-14T15:54:04Z")
Yeah i get that but why in Homekit and not just in Homey where they are already added? Or u wanna add them to Homey, to add them to Homekit, to make a flow in Homekit to start a light when the sensor triggers an alarm? ---
**Author:** ![jeroen020](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/jeroen020/32/13670_2.png) [@jeroen020](https://community.homey.app/u/jeroen020)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2019, 4:00pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/641 "2019-03-14T16:00:20Z")
> Or u wanna add them to Homey, to add them to Homekit, to make a flow in Homekit to start a light when the sensor triggers an alarm? That’s my case. I currently use Homey as a gateway to expose Zigbee, Z-Wave and 433 devices to HomeKit. Works well for my other Aqara sensor types (temperature, motion). ---
**Author:** ![Hannes85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e79b87/32.png) [@Hannes85](https://community.homey.app/u/Hannes85)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2019, 7:31am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/642 "2019-03-16T07:31:14Z")
Not really seeing benefits of adding a vibration sensor to HomeKit… the vibration sensor should be a trigger, not a button of some sorts that adds features in HomeKit. Of course, feel free to create a virtual device that acts upon vibration from the sensor and add that virtual device to HomeKit (will be an ON/OFF only) ---
**Author:** ![Eduardo\_Rodriguez](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/eduardo_rodriguez/32/1902_2.png) [@Eduardo\_Rodriguez](https://community.homey.app/u/Eduardo_Rodriguez)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2019, 12:05pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/643 "2019-03-16T12:05:15Z")
Today I added 2 xiaomi light bulbs and a plug to improve the zigbee mesh, but after resetting the network and adding everything again I see that all the devices join homey and not the other routers. What am I doing wrong? ![Anotaci%C3%B3n%202019-03-16%20130002](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/2X/4/4afcb240f398f3d3ae0d000eaa6d416b7650e482.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![PetervdK](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/petervdk/32/20669_2.png) [@PetervdK](https://community.homey.app/u/PetervdK)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2019, 12:57pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/644 "2019-03-16T12:57:44Z")
Nothing i guess. If they can reach Homey directly, why would you want them to connect via another router? ---
**Author:** ![Eduardo\_Rodriguez](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/eduardo_rodriguez/32/1902_2.png) [@Eduardo\_Rodriguez](https://community.homey.app/u/Eduardo_Rodriguez)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2019, 1:15pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/645 "2019-03-16T13:15:16Z")
Because the most remote devices do not work well, the door marked with the arrow is open, and does not report its status to homey. This sensor is 1 meter from the plug that acts as a router. ![puertas](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/2X/5/510cd0b2418115024c716404f338709836dec184.png) ---
**Author:** ![PetervdK](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/petervdk/32/20669_2.png) [@PetervdK](https://community.homey.app/u/PetervdK)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2019, 1:18pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/646 "2019-03-16T13:18:42Z")
Ah, i see. Well, did you give them some time to form a new mesh? Or maybe wake up the devices manually so they are aware of the new routers? ---
**Author:** ![Canedje](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/canedje/32/8324_2.png) [@Canedje](https://community.homey.app/u/Canedje)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2019, 1:23pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/647 "2019-03-16T13:23:17Z")
I do have the same experience since V2 all Zigbee devices are connected straight to Homey, no meshnetwork. In V1, i had a meshnetwork with the same devices ---
**Author:** ![Eduardo\_Rodriguez](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/eduardo_rodriguez/32/1902_2.png) [@Eduardo\_Rodriguez](https://community.homey.app/u/Eduardo_Rodriguez)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2019, 2:01pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/648 "2019-03-16T14:01:42Z")
That’s the problem, it does not meshnetwork, I bought 3 devices for this function without any results. > [@PetervdK](#): > > Ah, i see. Well, did you give them some time to form a new mesh? Or maybe wake up the devices manually so they are aware of the new routers? It takes a few hours installed. After resetting the network I started installing the routers first so that the other devices could join them, without result ---
**Author:** ![Luke\_Fairbank](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/luke_fairbank/32/28694_2.png) [@Luke\_Fairbank](https://community.homey.app/u/Luke_Fairbank)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2019, 7:26pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/649 "2019-03-16T19:26:59Z")
I have the same issue. I bought plugs I didn’t need to fix range issues but no mesh ---
**Author:** ![PascalB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/dbc845/32.png) [@PascalB](https://community.homey.app/u/PascalB)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2019, 10:04am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/650 "2019-03-17T10:04:02Z")
Same question here. If you set vibration sensitivity through Xiaomi mi hub and then exclude / include in Homey, will the needed reset also result in a reset of the sensitivity setting? ---
**Author:** ![Eternity](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/eternity/32/102113_2.png) [@Eternity](https://community.homey.app/u/Eternity)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2019, 11:16am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/651 "2019-03-18T11:16:41Z")
> [@Eternity](#): > > After having updated to v2.x (I am now on the latest experimental = v2.05-rc2) I am having some issues with my Xiaomi Aqara devices. > > I use the wireless square buttons (1x, 2x, 3x, 4x press, ID=24321) to control curtain controllers (ID=514). That has worked great on v1.5.x and in the beginning of my v2 experience, they worked flawlessly too. Good job Ted! > > In my bedroom I have a switch to control the lights (1x press) and the curtains (2x press). The lights work great and immediately with 1x press, the 2x press doesn’t work. > Weird; the switch interacts with Homey, but the 2x press is a problem. > > To make things even more peculiar…In my kitchen 1x press closes the curtain; that now only works after 3 or 4 attempts. > > So, it’s not a case of 1x working and 2x being buggy… > > In my living room, 2 meters away from Homey, the switch to control the curtain with 1x press does nothing at all. > > Is it a problem with the curtain controllers? Flows controlling them, work OK. > > What could be the problem? Better still; a solution 🙂 **UPDATE** These issues are solved. Not sure why, but deleting the non-working flows and re-creating exact the same flows again, was the solution. ---
**Author:** ![Ferry\_van\_E](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/ferry_van_e/32/10953_2.png) [@Ferry\_van\_E](https://community.homey.app/u/Ferry_van_E)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2019, 7:53pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/652 "2019-03-28T19:53:45Z")
What is the difference between the L and LN version of the Aqara Smart Wireless Wall switch? Each version shows the same page on Aqara website. ---
**Author:** ![vaderag](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/vaderag/32/150_2.png) [@vaderag](https://community.homey.app/u/vaderag)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2019, 8:48pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/653 "2019-03-28T20:48:45Z")
One requires only a live wire, the other requires both a live and neutral at the switch If unsure, live only is the way to go ---
**Author:** ![Ferry\_van\_E](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/ferry_van_e/32/10953_2.png) [@Ferry\_van\_E](https://community.homey.app/u/Ferry_van_E)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2019, 8:57pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/654 "2019-03-28T20:57:13Z")
> [@vaderag](#): > > One requires only a live wire, the other requires both a live and neutral at the switch > > If unsure, live only is the way to go Thanks! I was mixing up the wall switch and the wireless switch. My bad 😊 ---
**Author:** ![Damon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/damon/32/8194_2.png) [@Damon](https://community.homey.app/u/Damon)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2019, 6:43am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/655 "2019-04-03T06:43:04Z")
Hi, I’m a new homey user(not even a full week) and want thank you for the hard work you guys put into this app. Currently, I’m only using two doorsensors but more sensors are on their way and they seem to work great. /Damon ---
**Author:** ![Mackelito](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/mackelito/32/8243_2.png) [@Mackelito](https://community.homey.app/u/Mackelito)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2019, 5:46am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/656 "2019-04-04T05:46:00Z")
Will support for aqara water sensor be added? ---
**Author:** ![Jamie](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/jamie/32/5274_2.png) [@Jamie](https://community.homey.app/u/Jamie)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2019, 6:59am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/657 "2019-04-04T06:59:22Z")
Please use the search function of the forums before posting a question : > [@Water sensor from aqara](https://community.homey.app/t/water-sensor-from-aqara/3655): > > hello i have a question i have a water sensor from aqara mi and can not add it to homey. because he is not there and he does not like the zigbee protolcol either. does someone here know a solution for thank you > [@\[APP\] Aqara & Xiaomi Smart Home - A different kind of Smart Home solution (Zigbee App)](https://community.homey.app/t/xiaomi-aqara-smart-home-zigbee-app-v0-5-4/156/5): > > Hi @Spirre, Support for the Aqara water sensor, as well as the smoke and natural gas sensor, is depending on the implementation of the Zigbee IAS (Intruder Alarm System zone) cluster within Homey. This cluster is currently not supported and is likely to be included with or after the Zigbee core re-write (post v2.0 action). See also [https://github.com/athombv/homey/issues/2005](https://github.com/athombv/homey/issues/2005) We’ll have to be patient… Thanks ---
**Author:** ![PetervdK](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/petervdk/32/20669_2.png) [@PetervdK](https://community.homey.app/u/PetervdK)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2019, 7:20am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/658 "2019-04-04T07:20:28Z")
I have a number of Xiaomi Temp/Humid sensors (the round ones). I accidentally found out that if you tap on the value on the device card, it shows the last time the value was updated. Is there any way to get this update value from somewhere to use in a flow? I use the sensors in fridges and freezers and it would be very convenient to use these values to trigger a flow or just to show them in a notification. ---
**Author:** ![Mackelito](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/mackelito/32/8243_2.png) [@Mackelito](https://community.homey.app/u/Mackelito)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2019, 9:16am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/659 "2019-04-04T09:16:54Z")
Sure… but eg. github link in second post leads to a closed repo? so the answer felt kind of stale and out of date… was looking for some newer info but could not find any… [Previous page](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156.md?page=31) [Next page](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156.md?page=33)