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Review on 🏠 Aqara Cube - Zigbee Connection, Smart Home Device Controller with 6 Customizable Gestures, 2-Year Battery Life - Works with AQARA HUB and IFTTT by Nicholas Serafini

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Frustration Level - 10

Purchased to add to my homekit - Home Assistant. After a week of trying to get it to work I gave up. I can add it to the Aqara app and you can set some very simple automata that run inside the app but nothing outside of the app. So if you have a house made entirely of Akara (who's in their right mind?) then you can activate this accessory. There are many videos and guides on Youtube on Github, home-assistant.io etc. but they are all outdated. One way is to download the hub in the Mi Home app and set your location to mainland China, then wave a dead frog over it while you cast a spell. Or you can do as it says to access menus long gone from the app. The hub itself and the temperature sensors work great and are very easy to implement. But there doesn't seem to be a way to make the cube visible in HomeKit or Home Assistant.

Pros
  • Absolute Legend
Cons
  • Cable is shorter than other picks