# \[APP\] 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:** 75
**Author:** ![Dennis\_H74](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/dennis_h74/32/11177_2.png) [@Dennis\_H74](https://community.homey.app/u/Dennis_H74)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2020, 4:37pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/1565 "2020-03-02T16:37:50Z")
Pressure offset is working like a charm on the 10th floor šŸ‘ Thanks !! ---
**Author:** ![Hannes85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e79b87/32.png) [@Hannes85](https://community.homey.app/u/Hannes85)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2020, 7:02am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/1566 "2020-03-03T07:02:24Z")
As a reply to the ā€œ12 hourā€ period; it is still acting the same way, updating Lux every second or so. ---
**Author:** ![Angel\_Escudero](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/angel_escudero/32/13512_2.png) [@Angel\_Escudero](https://community.homey.app/u/Angel_Escudero)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2020, 11:23pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/1567 "2020-03-03T23:23:33Z")
Hi @TedTolboom !!! I am using NODERED and a temperature and humidity sensor (square). The behavior is correct, it shows temperature, humidity ā€¦ The problem comes if Homey restarts. The sensor appears in homey and updates the values. But it does not do it in NODERED. If I enter the MQTT Hub application and activate and deactivate the sensor at that time it starts sending data to the NODERED interface. Do you have knowledge of this problem? Thanks !!! ---
**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:** [March 4, 2020, 5:48am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/1568 "2020-03-04T05:48:50Z")
No I donā€™tā€¦ I didnā€™t find time to play around with NodeRED before. Only option I can imaging is star the Aqara app, with quite some sensors requires more time to initialize then MQTT; therefore MQTT marks the sensors as offline. You could try to restart the MQTT app (by a flow) around 30 minutes after the reboot. ---
**Author:** ![Angel\_Escudero](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/angel_escudero/32/13512_2.png) [@Angel\_Escudero](https://community.homey.app/u/Angel_Escudero)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2020, 10:46am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/1569 "2020-03-05T10:46:52Z")
Hi @TedTolboom I appreciate the help. I got through a flow, restart the MQTT server. Thank you!!! ---
**Author:** ![Roy\_Hopman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Roy\_Hopman](https://community.homey.app/u/Roy_Hopman)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2020, 1:16pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/1570 "2020-03-05T13:16:28Z")
Could anyone tell me if there is a solution for the reset timer of the motion sensor? I understand that the refresh time is long to preserve the battery. However, i would like to have my lights activate automatically between sunset and sunrise when i walk through the hall (nightly toilet visit - i have IKEA tradfri all over the house). However, i dont want want my lights to stay active as long as the sensor is active. I can set the light to be on for lets say 60 seconds after sensor triggering, but the sensor itself stays ā€˜ā€˜activeā€™ā€™ for quite long. is there any soluion to reset the status to no movement or something like that? ideally i would walk through the hallway, lights go on. motion sensor resets after approx 20 seconds and light stays on for approx 60 seconds. if i walk back, light is off, and would trigger on again. Anyone has some advice for me on this? ---
**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:** [March 5, 2020, 1:27pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/1571 "2020-03-05T13:27:25Z")
The Xiaomi sensors have a default blind time of 60 seconds, I think. There is a hack (see [this comment](https://community.homey.app/t/aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-zigbee-app-v0-8-0/156/1174)) that will cut that down to 5 seconds. Instead of soldering, you can also use a soft(-ish) pencil to make the connection that is required for the hack, and you can set the lower blind time in the advanced settings of the Xiaomi app, I believe. ---
**Author:** ![Gas](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/gas/32/12488_2.png) [@Gas](https://community.homey.app/u/Gas)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2020, 4:51pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/1572 "2020-03-05T16:51:17Z")
@TedTolboom Aqara opple. Is this some help for the problem? [https://github.com/dresden-elektronik/deconz-rest-plugin/pull/2531](https://github.com/dresden-elektronik/deconz-rest-plugin/pull/2531) ---
**Author:** ![Mario\_Me](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/mario_me/32/12703_2.png) [@Mario\_Me](https://community.homey.app/u/Mario_Me)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2020, 5:17pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/1573 "2020-03-05T17:17:45Z")
Hey guys, Any idea re: this? > [@Aqara sensors show red exclamation mark](https://community.homey.app/t/aqara-sensors-show-red-exclamation-mark/26781): > > Hiya, After the upgrade to 4.x my many many Aqara sensors are all marked with a nice looking but not nice-being red exclamation mark. When looking into the device itā€™s shown as ā€ždevice not availableā€œ / timeout. Funny thing: The devices and their flows seem to work plus in Apples Home App I can even see the correct status (eg door sensor open/close). PTP: Done Restart App: Done Updates: Done Any better idea here? thinking Thx ! ---
**Author:** ![hplos](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/hplos/32/10096_2.png) [@hplos](https://community.homey.app/u/hplos)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2020, 8:24pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/1574 "2020-03-05T20:24:12Z")
You could try work with a countdown timer. If the min value of the sensor is 60sec. I would start the timer for 90sec, because if you would walk back on the 60 sec, the light may go off (if the sensor didnā€™t see you already), now the sensor had 30 sec to spot you again šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![Sharkys](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/sharkys/32/54029_2.png) [@Sharkys](https://community.homey.app/u/Sharkys)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2020, 5:55am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/1575 "2020-03-06T05:55:11Z")
Try to re-add them without removing them, it will tell you upon add itā€™s duplicated device but the error state may disappear. Had this issue before on version prior to v4. ---
**Author:** ![Daniel\_S](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/daniel_s/32/24881_2.png) [@Daniel\_S](https://community.homey.app/u/Daniel_S)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2020, 6:13am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/1576 "2020-03-06T06:13:28Z")
How many zigbee devices you have? When i reach more than 20 this often happens to me too. ![Screenshot_2020-02-22-20-22-12-177_app.homey](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/4/9/49d4901ddb4f9fe87edcb9a4e76ee15b7c744d54.jpeg) ![Screenshot_2020-02-22-20-14-25-815_com.android.chrome](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/3/c/3c1d5c0094d670906df91fed438f0f36d557c532.jpeg) ---
**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:** [March 6, 2020, 9:10am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/1577 "2020-03-06T09:10:54Z")
Currently 24 had 28 before with 2 Ikea plugs as a routers. Do you have all zigbee devices unavailable, or only Aqara models? ---
**Author:** ![Andrea\_M](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/andrea_m/32/18744_2.png) [@Andrea\_M](https://community.homey.app/u/Andrea_M)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2020, 9:21am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/1578 "2020-03-06T09:21:14Z")
Hi Daniel\_S Sorry for going off topic ā€¦ How did you include those nice tags to the tiles? ---
**Author:** ![Daniel\_S](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/daniel_s/32/24881_2.png) [@Daniel\_S](https://community.homey.app/u/Daniel_S)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2020, 9:30am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/1579 "2020-03-06T09:30:57Z")
Only Aqara app devices were not working. Other or generic zigbee ok. So I linked this problem to Aqara app. ---
**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:** [March 6, 2020, 9:31am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/1580 "2020-03-06T09:31:50Z")
> [@Gas](#): > > @TedTolboom > Aqara opple. Is this some help for the problem? > [https://github.com/dresden-elektronik/deconz-rest-plugin/pull/2531](https://github.com/dresden-elektronik/deconz-rest-plugin/pull/2531) @Gas thank you for sending the link; didnā€™t see this comment (in this thread) yet. So it appears that indeed the device behavior can be controlled. - Multiple options per button is controlled by setting a specific attribute: `endpoint.write('aqaraOpple', {'mode': 1}, {manufacturerCode: 0x115f});` - Preventing ā€œhostile take-overā€ of other Zigbee devices is controlled by defining the right Group(s) Unfortunately, both options to control these devices are not implemented in Homeyā€™s current Zigbee Coreā€¦ Manufacturer specific attributes not (also needed to e.g. control the Aqara Curtains direction), nor does defining Groupsā€¦ I will, once more (see comment on Aqara Curtains), check if there is a work around; but donā€™t get your hopes too highā€¦ likely will be one for the Zigbee rewrite. ---
**Author:** ![Daniel\_S](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/daniel_s/32/24881_2.png) [@Daniel\_S](https://community.homey.app/u/Daniel_S)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2020, 9:32am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/1581 "2020-03-06T09:32:26Z")
Just use your google keyboard emotikons in mobile. ---
**Author:** ![Andrea\_M](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/andrea_m/32/18744_2.png) [@Andrea\_M](https://community.homey.app/u/Andrea_M)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2020, 10:23am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/1582 "2020-03-06T10:23:58Z")
Thanks Daniel!!! ---
**Author:** ![Cory](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/cory/32/12997_2.png) [@Cory](https://community.homey.app/u/Cory)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2020, 10:41am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/1583 "2020-03-06T10:41:53Z")
Thanks so much for your work on this app and continuing to look into these switches, even though theyā€™re proving so much trouble. I/we really appreciate it. Do you mean the multiple-options-per-button feature will have to wait for the Zigbee rewrite, or support of the switch altogether? As far as the ā€œhostile take-overā€ behavior - could that be circumvented by not having any Zigbee bulbs connected to mains during the pairing process? ---
**Author:** ![Mario\_Me](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/mario_me/32/12703_2.png) [@Mario\_Me](https://community.homey.app/u/Mario_Me)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2020, 6:02pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156/1584 "2020-03-06T18:02:26Z")
This is not possible because the App highlights all existing sensors w/ red exclamation mark Has to be an error w/ the App, maybe Athom can investigate this, will report to ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/c/d/cdd9fe9796f4c37baa449b3ef90c54895c4ba12c.jpeg) them. [Previous page](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156.md?page=74) [Next page](https://community.homey.app/t/app-aqara-xiaomi-smart-home-simplify-your-life-with-a-smarter-home/156.md?page=76)