I’m excited to report that I managed to get my first few flows dwell in Homey. I related the Aqara T1 LED bulb to each Alexa and Homey and have a few flows operating utilizing that gadget.
I additionally bought the Aqara water leak sensor related to Homey and am completely thrilled with it thus far. It’s actually good for my use case.
Nevertheless it’s not all good. I seen that I’m lacking out on some options and performance with the Aqara mild bulb together with the Homey Professional hub in comparison with if I had an Aqara hub as a substitute.
It makes me surprise if I ought to have simply purchased an Aqara hub as a substitute of the Homey Professional, however extra on that a bit later…
My first Homey flows
The primary flows that I arrange are fairly fundamental, however it’s a must to begin someplace, proper?
That is what I began with:
- Water leak battery monitoring
- Eating desk mild battery monitoring
- Kitchen water leak detected
The primary two are actually easy. If the battery proportion in both gadget will get all the way down to 10%, I get a push notification and a notification contained in the Homey app reminding me to go and alter the battery. Simple peasy.
The final one is definitely serving to to unravel an actual downside we have now in my dwelling. If a water leak is detected on the bench beside the kitchen sink, that is what occurs:
- The eating desk mild turns ON
- The Sonos Arc soundbar says “Kitchen water leak detected” at 40% quantity
- I get a push notification
- I get a persistent notification contained in the Homey app
I’d say it’s fairly good for overlaying most eventualities the place both my spouse or myself might need forgotten that the water filter is operating and alerting us to the actual fact. After all, there are most likely eventualities the place I nonetheless may not learn about it straight away, however it offers me peace of thoughts and it’s actually higher than what we had earlier than, which was nothing!
Positively well worth the cash for the water sensor for my part.
I’m shopping for extra Aqara units
I’m so impressed with the Aqara mild bulb and the water sensor that I’m hankering to do extra. I’ve already purchased an Aqara vibration sensor (extra on that coming subsequent put up) and I additionally ordered three extra T1 LED mild bulbs and a movement sensor for the carry foyer space exterior our entrance door.
I’ll hold you posted on how that goes as soon as I get every little thing related and arrange a movement or two.
Why can’t I management the “heat” on the Aqara T1 mild bulb?
This query bothers me.
Critically, do I simply not get it, or is that this a short-sighted enterprise choice on the a part of Aqara? Don’t get me improper, thus far I really like their merchandise, however why on Earth can’t I benefit from the full characteristic set except I’ve an Aqara hub?
That is not sensible to me. I imply, certainly they may expose the total performance to third-party ecosystems like Homey in the event that they needed to, proper?
One principle I’ve is that Aqara needs individuals to purchase their hubs as a substitute of third-party hubs. If that’s actually what’s taking place, I feel that’s short-sighted. I guess you if Aqara allowed third-party techniques to have entry to the total characteristic set of their merchandise the uplift in gross sales on their full vary of merchandise would greater than make up for some nominal loss in income from promoting fewer hubs.
However hey, perhaps I’m approach off the mark…
Subsequent time, I’ll let what occurred once I hooked up my new vibration sensor to my front room desk in hopes that I’d be capable of flip your complete desk right into a “mild change”.
Spoiler, it didn’t actually work the way in which that I hoped that it’d!
Till subsequent time, have a great one.
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