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.
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.
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
Pair the Aqara SJCGQ11LM or SJCGQ12LM to Home Assistant locally via Zigbee2MQTT — no hub, no cloud. Full setup, automations, and placement guide.
Aqara Cube T1 Pro: Home Assistant Automations via Zigbee2MQTT The Aqara Cube T1 Pro is one of the most action-dense physical controllers you can put on a coffee table. One device, one hand, and you get 58+ distinct gestures — shake, flip, rotate, tap, hold — each mappable to a different Home Assistant action. That’s … Read more
Aqara Door Sensor in Home Assistant via Zigbee2MQTT (No Hub) Aqara door and window sensors are some of the best bang-for-buck contact sensors in the Zigbee ecosystem — small, reliable, and cheap enough to put on every door and window without breaking anything. But Aqara pushes you toward their hub or the Mi Home cloud. … Read more
Your robot vacuum cleans your floors, but by default it also reports home — to servers you don’t control, in a jurisdiction you may not be comfortable with. Xiaomi and Roborock vacuums running stock firmware maintain persistent cloud connections. Map data, room layouts, cleaning schedules, usage telemetry, and even audio commands pass through cloud infrastructure … Read more
The Aqara P1 (RTCGQ14LM) looks identical to older Aqara motion sensors, but under the hood it’s a different beast. Its predecessor, the RTCGQ11LM, hardcodes a 60-second re-trigger lockout — move in front of it at second 61 and your lights work fine; sit still at second 58 and they cut out. The P1 ships with … Read more
