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Review on ๐ŸŒก๏ธ Aqara Temperature and Humidity Sensor: Remote Monitoring, Home Automation & Wireless Thermometer Hygrometer by Andrew Arneson

Revainrating 5 out of 5

The old product description was inaccurate - not compatible with Zigbee

The old product description stated that it was compatible with Zigbee 1.2, which is completely inaccurate. They use a modified version that isn't very compatible outside of their own hub. You can get this to work with a SmartThings hub if you either 1) don't have other Zigbee devices that this device will jump through, or 2) you have one of the Aqara devices that can connect to your STH. Even if you manage to connect it directly to your STH with other Zigbee devices on the network, it will eventually go through the other device and disconnect. I'm happy to see that Aqara has removed most of the Zigbee compatibility notices. You just have to remove it from the title. They also need a giant star next to their Apple Home Kit compatibility statement. As far as I can tell, it still needs its hub, which isn't device-level compatible with the home kit, as the promotional statement says. All wrong advertising.

Pros
  • Decent performance
Cons
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