Posts tagged with Aqara

  • Expanding Zigbee Range with Ikea Tradfri Repeaters

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    My brand new Aqara Sensors were on the very edge of my Zigbee range, resulting in unwanted disconnects every few days. Fortunately Sweden’s largest contemporary designer has a cheap solution … though getting it to run with Home Assistant was a bit of a challenge. The temperature, humidity and pressure...

  • Adding Aqara Sensors to Home Assistant

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    Home Assistant is running great! It is time to add some more devices to my setup, and since all groundwork to add Zigbee devices using Zigbee2MQTT was done previously (check out this post) it makes sense to add more devices that support this protocol. For this post I picked up...

  • Adding an Aqara Cube to Home Assistant

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    Aqara cubes are a fantastic way to switch on and off different devices in a smart home. However, getting them to run with Home Assistant is not trivial … Here you can read all about how I’ve hooked up one of those cute cubes to Home Assistant to control my...