# \[APP\] Aqara & Xiaomi Smart Home - Simplify your life with a smarter home

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**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")\
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> [@DirkG](#):
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> Maybe you only need to perform a factory reset if you haven’t created a local backup before.

No, we don’t need a local backup anywhere in the process. A backup is only needed as safety net, in case something goes wrong.:

> [@\[HowTo\]\[Pro 2023/Mini\] Revert from experimental to stable firmware](https://community.homey.app/t/howto-pro-2023-mini-revert-from-experimental-to-stable-firmware/100752/1):
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> 1. NOTE: _You’ll need the backup when things went wrong; so, there’s no need for restoring backups when this procedure succeeds_

This was succesfully tested by 2 volunteers, as mentioned in that post.

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@Drako74

> [@Drako74](#):
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> So why when you go to follow that guide does the Homey dev tools setting tell you that you can’t disable it without a factory reset? I was just going off the Homey setting warning.
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> ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/b/5/b5ca3c39d6a5c09470f943366fc12970acbefa39.png)

That’s description is just not true! Maybe they try to scare folks to keep them for installing experimental updates ‘just for fun’, I don’t know.  
Because of the time of writing that ‘guide’ it was before 2020, and with a Pro 2016-2019 you’ll need to restart to recovery mode and restore a backup. Even then a factory reset was not part of the procedure..

The [procedures I wrote, for both pre- and post 2020 models](https://community.homey.app/t/howto-pro-2023-mini-revert-from-experimental-to-stable-firmware/100752), were tested by two volunteers with a Pro 2023 at the time of writing, and by me in the meantime, since last december.

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