Setup guides
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
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 … Read more
