# \[APP\] 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:** 6
**Author:** ![Lyosha\_Dovolen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4af34b/32.png) [@Lyosha\_Dovolen](https://community.homey.app/u/Lyosha_Dovolen)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2018, 10:44pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/103 "2018-10-02T22:44:21Z")
Wow. Awesome stuff ---
**Author:** ![Theo\_Deckers](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/theo_deckers/32/11443_2.png) [@Theo\_Deckers](https://community.homey.app/u/Theo_Deckers)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2018, 5:58am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/104 "2018-10-03T05:58:57Z")
For awnings (zonwering) with an arm that moves from vertical to horizontal you could use it to measure how far it is open. Maybe even for folding arm awnings (knikarmscherm), but those arms move a bit different so I’d need to test that. ---
**Author:** ![dENNtoet](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/denntoet/32/3622_2.png) [@dENNtoet](https://community.homey.app/u/dENNtoet)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2018, 6:24am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/105 "2018-10-03T06:24:53Z")
Ah right that is pretty cool! I see an usecase now. When having a videodoorbell and the delivery man/woman is at the door when you are not home. Open the garage door till angle is X… Hmmmm gonna think about that 😁 ---
**Author:** ![Ben](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/ben/32/12538_2.png) [@Ben](https://community.homey.app/u/Ben)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2018, 8:15am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/106 "2018-10-03T08:15:04Z")
Hi The xiaomi aqara human body sensors always fall out. Does anyone have any idea how that is possible. I use this in the Heimdall app. Or is this a Xiaomi problem? ---
**Author:** ![DaneedeKruyff](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/daneedekruyff/32/964_2.png) [@DaneedeKruyff](https://community.homey.app/u/DaneedeKruyff)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2018, 8:31am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/107 "2018-10-03T08:31:44Z")
@Ben I see you posted this in both threads, please see my response [here](https://community.homey.app/t/134/23) ---
**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:** [October 3, 2018, 8:34am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/108 "2018-10-03T08:34:36Z")
Pretty certain this is a known issue with the ZigBee core in homey which needs rewriting Bit of a pain as I have a number of these too that keep dropping ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Theo\_Deckers](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/theo_deckers/32/11443_2.png) [@Theo\_Deckers](https://community.homey.app/u/Theo_Deckers)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2018, 8:40am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/109 "2018-10-03T08:40:08Z")
Maybe the vibration sensing could also be used to detect if the washing machine has finished centrifuging? ---
**Author:** ![Ben](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/ben/32/12538_2.png) [@Ben](https://community.homey.app/u/Ben)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2018, 10:08am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/110 "2018-10-03T10:08:22Z")
what I mean by failure is that I currently have two sensors in the room and one in the toilet and one in the garage and one on the landing. The 2 in the room I have no problem with and also not in the toilet. Heimdall recorded everything well except for the one in the garage and overflow. When I have paired it on the landing and garage, everything goes well for a while and heimdall registers everything but after a while nothing is registered by heimdall. I’m going to take out the battery again and again on new pairing everything goes well again and over time I have the same problem again. ---
**Author:** ![Theo\_Deckers](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/theo_deckers/32/11443_2.png) [@Theo\_Deckers](https://community.homey.app/u/Theo_Deckers)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2018, 10:19am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/111 "2018-10-03T10:19:06Z")
Same problem here. I have to re-pair part of my Zigbee devices (mostly Xiaomi sensors but occasionally also IKEA Tradfri bulbs or spots) every now and then. Then the whole network works fine for some time and after one or two weeks some start disappearing again i.e. they are still visible as a device but don’t react anymore. I’m trying to detect some pattern in it and must say that some devices disappear more often than others, especially the ones further away from Homey, although earlier this week one disappeared that is located very close to Homey. This weekend I had 5 or 6 that did not report anymore from exact the same moment on, but unfortunately I have found no clue what happened at that moment. ---
**Author:** ![Sytze](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/sytze/32/7846_2.png) [@Sytze](https://community.homey.app/u/Sytze)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2018, 12:21pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/112 "2018-10-03T12:21:44Z")
Exactly the same here. It’s mostly the same devices dropping. Usually a wireless Xiaomi switch that’s further away from Homey, but right next to the 2 Tradfri spots it controls and that actually work from Homey, so mesh range should be sufficient. Or a Xiaomi PIR that’s in the hall, also pretty much next to Ikea bulbs. They usually require a re-pair or simply setting them in pairing mode without doing anything else in the Homey app. Unfortunately the PIR is sticking to the ceiling, making this a tiresome affair 😛 ---
**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:** [October 3, 2018, 12:47pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/113 "2018-10-03T12:47:56Z")
@Sytze > [@Sytze](#): > > or simply setting them in pairing mode without doing anything else in the Homey app. That is interesting! Could you confirm that this doesn’t brake flows? So, the device ID’s are not changed. ---
**Author:** ![Sytze](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/sytze/32/7846_2.png) [@Sytze](https://community.homey.app/u/Sytze)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2018, 1:03pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/114 "2018-10-03T13:03:38Z")
Yep, although it didn’t work every time. I tried it with the switch. Twice it worked this way, once it failed and I did had to pair and fix the flows. ---
**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:** [October 3, 2018, 1:22pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/115 "2018-10-03T13:22:48Z")
Thanks for the confirmation. I will try that next time! ---
**Author:** ![Ben](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/ben/32/12538_2.png) [@Ben](https://community.homey.app/u/Ben)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2018, 3:15pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/116 "2018-10-03T15:15:20Z")
if this is a problem at homey why do not we hear anything from Athom Homey? ---
**Author:** ![herrie](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/herrie/32/941_2.png) [@herrie](https://community.homey.app/u/herrie)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2018, 4:52pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/117 "2018-10-03T16:52:27Z")
> [@TedTolboom](#): > > @Wdl I always refer to the by Xiaomi provided inclusion instructions… > Can you try if the sensor will include when tripple clicking the button (instead of press and holding the button for 5 seconds)? ok i was succesful in pairing using the plugwise in the shed… i have a terrible wireless connection over there and i was able to connect it. is it possible that my unifi access point interferes with the pairing process? ---
**Author:** ![Neo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9fc348/32.png) [@Neo](https://community.homey.app/u/Neo)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2018, 6:44pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/118 "2018-10-03T18:44:39Z")
Good evening, i’ve readed this post carefully because the xiaomi switches i’ve had, are stopped working after the update. i have deleted them and added them but then i see i only have the option of 1 press or activated scene. the options 2, 3, 4 presses long press and release are gone. is there something i do wrong here? ---
**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 3, 2018, 6:58pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/119 "2018-10-03T18:58:03Z")
> [@Ben](#): > > if this is a problem at homey why do not we hear anything from Athom Homey? Because Athom is for Zigbee focussing on re-writing the Zigbee core, see e.g. > **[Behind the Magic – July 2018](https://blog.athom.com/behind-magic-july-2018/)** This will be one of the updates after v2 has reached stable, so v2.1+ > [@herrie](#): > > ok i was succesful in pairing using the plugwise in the shed… i have a terrible wireless connection over there and i was able to connect it. > > is it possible that my unifi access point interferes with the pairing process? Could well be, depending on which wifi channel the unifi access point uses. Homey uses channel 11 for Zigbee. See some explanation on WiFi / Zigbee coexistence: [ZigBee and Wi-Fi Coexistence | MetaGeek](https://www.metageek.com/training/resources/zigbee-wifi-coexistence.html) > [@Neo](#): > > Good evening, > i’ve readed this post carefully because the xiaomi switches i’ve had, are stopped working after the update. > i have deleted them and added them but then i see i only have the option of 1 press or activated scene. > the options 2, 3, 4 presses long press and release are gone. > is there something i do wrong here? It was not needed to delete and re-add the Xiaomi switches. As mentioned in the changelog, I removed as announced the old DEPRECATED trigger cards: > [@TedTolboom](#): > > Removing the old, no longer working, (marked DEPRECATED) cards as announced as of release v 0.3.0 The new trigger cards (also named: “A scene has been activated”) have a autocomplete field and will show the applicable options: ![51](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/2X/4/48fadb483b8a6d249d093dd5d8b052f8a624acb9.png) ---
**Author:** ![Neo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9fc348/32.png) [@Neo](https://community.homey.app/u/Neo)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2018, 7:11pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/120 "2018-10-03T19:11:18Z")
Thank you very much, 🙂 i didn’t see that. ---
**Author:** ![Theo\_Deckers](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/theo_deckers/32/11443_2.png) [@Theo\_Deckers](https://community.homey.app/u/Theo_Deckers)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2018, 6:22am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/121 "2018-10-04T06:22:23Z")
Interesting, only putting them in pairing mode: I need to test that next time because that saves the trouble of each time having to update the flows. This already got a bit better since I started to use a variable for each lamp, because in that way I ‘only’ need to update 3 flows per lamp: the one where the variable switches the lamp and the two feedback flows (logging ‘lamp switched off’ and ‘lamp switched on’). ---
**Author:** ![Hannes85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e79b87/32.png) [@Hannes85](https://community.homey.app/u/Hannes85)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2018, 11:36am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/122 "2018-10-04T11:36:38Z")
Maybe a very dumb question but I reboot my Homey every last day of the month. This has been working perfect for the last 4 months. However, the reboot of last week really screwed up my Window\ Door contact sensors and smart wireless buttons. They are not functioning at all anymore until I remove them and re-add the devices by hand. Is this something known? Not really keen on having to do this every month as it has been working like a charm in the past. Note that my xiaomi Motion sensors and temperature\humidity sensors are not suffering from these restarts? Cheers! [Previous page](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156.md?page=5) [Next page](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156.md?page=7)