Aqara Water Leak Sensor in Home Assistant via Zigbee2MQTT (No Hub)
Pair the Aqara SJCGQ11LM or SJCGQ12LM to Home Assistant locally via Zigbee2MQTT — no hub, no cloud. Full setup, automations, and placement guide.
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Aqara Cube T1 Pro: Home Assistant Automations via Zigbee2MQTT (Full 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…
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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. You don’t need either. This guide covers adding Aqara contact…
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Aqara P1 Motion Sensor + Home Assistant: Full Local Setup via Zigbee2MQTT
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…
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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…