Tag: xiaomi

• #Xiaomi CMSXJ11A: an IP-Camera with built-in battery

  Product Reviews | 5 min | 15781

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  product review

  xiaomi

  security

  camera

  ip camera

  xiaomi ecosystem

  This article evaluates three low budget Wi-Fi cameras that I buy from e.g. banggood.com and aliexpress.com but I will focus most of the analysis on my last acquisition the XIAOMI Mijia CMSXJ11A.

  All cameras in this review are Xiaomi (not exactly built by Xiaomi) and can be connected to the application Mi Home (apple/android). Moreover, you need to select the region to China (Mainland) in the application, otherwise you are not going to find the devices. This has a main disa...

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• #Raspberry Pi: Xiaomi Sensors & Home Assistant (Hass.io)

  Home Automation, Raspberry Pi | 5 min | 26221

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  raspberry pi

  docker

  sensors

  home automation

  home assistant

  zigbee

  xiaomi

  hass.io

  embedded

  Last week, I published an article about using Xiaomi sensors without a Xiaomi Gateway. The gateway/hub can be replaced with a Raspberry Pi and a USB-ZigBee dongle. You find the instructions here: #ZigBee: Xiaomi Sensors using Raspberry Pi (without Gateway!).

  As you can read in that article, two repositories are available to connect and process the data from the Xiaomi sensors. Additionally, Zigbee2mqtt can be connected to Hass.io. Well, I didn't want to use HassOS (the OS on which hass.io runs), but I wanted to use Hass.io running on Raspbian, otherwise with Home Assistant running as an appli...

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