
Xiaomi Home Assistant Local Control Outside China
The official ha_xiaomi_home integration has three control modes. Outside China, only one is genuinely local, and it has real gaps. Here's what you get.

The official ha_xiaomi_home integration has three control modes. Outside China, only one is genuinely local, and it has real gaps. Here's what you get.

Aqara's local vs cloud behavior explained: what survives an outage, what dies, whether LAN mode works, and how Home Assistant removes the cloud.

Connect the Aqara Hub E1 (ZHWG16LM) to Home Assistant without cloud — HomeKit Controller, XiaomiGateway3, and AqaraGateway paths compared.

Set up the Aqara VOCKQJK11LM (AAQS-S01) in HA via Zigbee2MQTT. Get all entities, fix slow updates, and avoid the historical TVOC scaling bug.

Pair the Aqara Curtain Driver E1 (ZNCLBL01LM) with Zigbee2MQTT and Home Assistant — calibration, entities, automations, common fixes.

Pair the Aqara RTCGQ13LM to Zigbee2MQTT and Home Assistant with no hub or cloud. Covers pairing, detection interval, sensitivity, and known bugs.

Pair the Aqara Cube T1 Pro to Zigbee2MQTT without an Aqara hub, set scene vs. action mode, and build automations in Home Assistant. No cloud required.

Set up the Aqara Wall Switch H1 no-neutral (QBKG38LM) with Zigbee2MQTT and Home Assistant — pairing, decoupled mode, automation YAML, LED bulb gotcha.

Pair the Aqara DJT11LM vibration sensor to Zigbee2MQTT — no hub, no cloud. Pairing, sensitivity tuning, and automations for Home Assistant.

Set up the Aqara SP-EUC01 smart plug in Home Assistant via Zigbee2MQTT — no Aqara hub, no cloud. Pairing, energy dashboard, automations, firmware bug fix.