Aqara Vibration Sensor (DJT11LM): Zigbee2MQTT Setup and Five Local Automations for Home Assistant
The Aqara DJT11LM is a CR2032-powered Zigbee vibration sensor that detects vibration, tilt, and drop events — all 100% local with Zigbee2MQTT and Home Assistant.
Aqara FP1E Presence Sensor: Full Local Setup with Zigbee2MQTT and Home Assistant
The Aqara FP1E is a mmWave presence sensor that runs entirely over Zigbee. No Aqara hub required — pair with Zigbee2MQTT for 100% local presence detection in Home Assistant.
Aqara Roller Shade Driver E1: Complete Home Assistant Local Setup Guide
The Aqara Roller Shade Driver E1 is one of the cheapest smart blind motors that works 100% locally with Home Assistant — no hub, no Aqara account, no cloud. But the calibration process is counterintuitive if you’ve never done it before.
Aqara T1 Temperature & Humidity Sensor (WSDCGQ12LM): Home Assistant Zigbee Setup Guide
The Aqara T1 (WSDCGQ12LM) is a compact Zigbee sensor that reports temperature, humidity, and atmospheric pressure — entirely locally, no cloud, no Aqara account required after initial pairing. Battery-powered, it runs for up to two years on a single CR2032 cell. This guide covers both Zigbee2MQTT and ZHA integration paths, what entities to expect, how […]
Aqara SP-EUC01 with Zigbee2MQTT: Full Local Power Monitoring in Home Assistant
Most smart plugs are a surveillance compromise waiting to happen. You buy them for energy monitoring, and they phone home to a cloud server you don’t control every time you flip a switch or pull a power reading. The Aqara SP-EUC01 is different — not because Aqara is particularly virtuous, but because it’s Zigbee. No […]
Aqara G2H Pro: Local Camera Stream in Home Assistant (No Cloud, go2rtc + Frigate)
The Aqara G2H Pro is one of the few affordable indoor cameras that doubles as a Zigbee hub — and with the right setup, you can get a fully local camera stream into Home Assistant without routing a single frame through Aqara’s cloud. The trick is that the G2H Pro doesn’t speak raw RTSP by […]
Aqara E1 Hub with Home Assistant: Complete Local Setup (No Cloud Required)
The Aqara E1 hub costs less than a nice dinner and gets every Aqara Zigbee device you own into Home Assistant with full local control. No cloud polling. No subscription. The catch: the setup path is counterintuitive enough that most guides either skip over the hard parts or get them wrong. This guide documents the […]
Xiaomi Zigbee Devices in Home Assistant via Zigbee2MQTT: 100% Local, No Cloud
Xiaomi and Aqara make some of the cheapest, most reliable Zigbee sensors on the market. Motion sensors under $10. Door contacts smaller than a matchbox. Temperature sensors with year-long battery life. There is one catch: out of the box, these devices are designed to phone home. Setup requires the Mi Home or Aqara app, and […]
Aqara Presence Sensor FP2: Local-Only Setup for Home Assistant and HomeKit
Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. If you buy through them, we earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. The Aqara Presence Sensor FP2 is one of the more impressive mmWave devices to land in the consumer smart home market in the last few years. Multi-zone tracking, sub-second response times, illuminance sensing […]