Top 8 Xiaomi products that help us in the home

Xiaomi has invested in many areas of our lives through the many products it floods into the Chinese market and in turn into our Western markets. The Chinese giant is even succeeding in offering us quality products at more than attractive prices. For once, we're not going to talk about Xiaomi smartphones but about products for the home. We offer you a kind of journey through an imaginary house.

Xiaomi Aqara Smart Door Lock

So let's start with the first element of a dwelling, the front door. Xiaomi offers us an intelligent lock that offers many features to protect your home using the latest technologies in this field. This intelligent lock is linked to all the other products of the Smart Home ecosystem and allows many actions with them.

The main and most attractive feature of the Aqara Smart Door Lock is the variety of door opening and locking options. In fact, there are four options for this and most of them free you from your key ring. First of all, you can use your fingerprints to open the door. This has been tested and proven to be effective. Secondly, you can open the lock using a password that you set yourself. Third, it supports the NFC protocol. So if you use a smartphone, a watch connected with an NFC chip, you can use them to unlock the door. In addition, if you lose your key ring, it is possible to lock the lock via the application. Finally, the door lock can also be opened with a key.

Xiaomi Mijia Smart 720P WiFi IP Camera Pan-tilt Version

Let's get into the apartment. Would you like a camera that can monitor every inch of it with many details? Then the Pan-tilt version of the Xiaomi Mijia camera is for you. This camera is able to rotate horizontally and vertically and zoom in on an object or area. This type of camera is very versatile. The Mijia PTZ (Pan-Tilt-Zoom) camera allows you to control a large area, reduce blind spots and configure different shots to monitor according to your needs. The 10 integrated IR LEDs and the silent motor allow this surveillance camera to silently capture images in night vision up to 9 meters. The µSD card port will allow the storage of images.

Xiaomi Smartmi Pure Evaporative Air Humidifier

Now, let's suppose we just entered the apartment. What about the air quality of our Home Sweet Home? The Xiaomi Smartmi humidifier is a device that purifies the air in your home. The Xiaomi Smartmi electric radiator helps to maintain the air temperature in the house.

The Xiaomi Smartmi Pure evaporative humidifier has many health benefits. It not only refreshes, it also helps us to fight against skin dryness, but also sore throats etc. This product will take care to convert dry air into pleasant and healthy humid air.

Xiaomi Roborock 2-in-1 vacuum cleaner (2nd generation)

After taking care of the air quality of the dwelling, we must take an interest in the cleanliness of the house. This brings us to Xiaomi's robot vacuum cleaner, the Xiaomi Roborock Sweep One is similar in many ways to its predecessor, but it has even more features. The vacuum cleaner is always round and equipped with a laser rangefinder. It also has a number of sensors that help the driver avoid obstacles, choose the most efficient route and quickly find a charging station.

An innovative new feature is its ability to perform wet cleaning. There is room for a water tank that "sprays" the ground with water. This makes it easier to remove dirt. The capacity of the water tank allows for use for 45 to 60 minutes. The 5200 mAh battery can provide an autonomy of 2 hours to 2 hours 30 minutes, which is equivalent to cleaning a 250 m2 room.

Xiaomi lighting system

Now that we are in the house, let's look at lighting. And of course to intelligent lighting. Let's take as an example the Xiaomi Yeelight JIAOYUE 480 LED ceiling light with WiFi / Bluetooth / APP control. It is a circular shaped ceiling light. It is equipped with an RGB light band that produces 16 million colours with a high colour rendering index (CRI) of up to Ra95, creating a museum lighting effect. The dimming system allows flexible adjustment of the brightness according to different situations such as reading, watching television or playing games. The temperature can be adjusted between 2700K and 6500K.

In addition, the Xiaomi Yeelight Jiaoyue 480 LED ceiling light has a moonlight mode that gives the appearance of the moon when it is on, providing warm and comfortable lighting to take care of your eyes. The ceiling light can be controlled by a smartphone via WiFi or Bluetooth via the Mi Home application. It also comes with a Bluetooth remote control that allows you to remotely switch your light on and off without necessarily being in the same room. In addition, an innovative quick-release module allows you to easily lock the lamp in its holder.

Xiaomi TV and Home Theater

Now that the air in our house is healthy and it is clean and well lit, let's watch a movie or listen to music. Now the Xiaomi TVs and the sound system come into play. Xiaomi offers different TVs in different sizes: 33 inches, 43 inches and so on. And they are good products. For example, the Xiaomi Mi TV 4A comes with a Cortex-A53 Amlogic T962 four-core processor running at 750 MHz and operating at a frequency of 1.5 GHz. It also features a Mali-450 MP5 GPU that provides a high quality image. It comes with 2GB of dual-channel DDR4 RAM and 8GB of internal storage, which should be enough. It is possible to combine TV with a "Home Cinema" for better sound quality.

Xiaomi Power Strip Socket

All these devices need to be electrically connected. A power strip will help us to optimize the connections. Xiaomi offers different power outlets ranging from 3 to 6 outlets with or without USB charging port.

Xiaomi Aqara Smart Bedroom Kit

Okay, let's move on to the bedroom now, since we had a great time in the living room. The Xiaomi Aqara Smart Bedroom Kit is a kit that allows users to control smart gadgets in the home such as an air conditioner for example. This kit is composed of 6 different gadgets, including 1 for the air conditioner, 1 temperature and humidity sensor, 1 motion sensor, 1 wall socket, 1 wall switch, 2 wireless switches. With these devices, you will succeed in creating a perfect smart home.

There are many other Xiaomi products dedicated to the home, this is just a glimpse, it's up to you to discover them.

Xiaomi Aqara: Build a smarter home

The Asian giant, Xiaomi, is in constant personal evolution by its services, increasingly covering more and more aspects of daily life of users. Showing us a wide repertoire of options, each with its own charms, adapting incredibly, improving and facilitating the most tedious tasks of the home, such as sweeping, we have the Xiaomi Mi Robot Vacumm, a robot vacuum cleaner that is on offer. Looking a little deeper, brushing our teeth is now a revolution, with the Soocas X3 Sonic, an intelligent toothbrush. With all the above presented we have a new line that will debut in the market, it's time to know the products Xiaomi Aqara.

The Xiaomi Aqara products are a new line focused on various aspects of the home, offering us a more sophisticated, futuristic and innovative life. The products Xiaomi Aqara for now most are in pre-sale, being a total of 7, very likely this number will increase over time, but for now we will focus on each of them, to know them thoroughly.

Xiaomi Aqara: Temperature and humidity sensor

The Xiaomi Aqara temperature and humidity sensor has a nice, simple but elegant design. It has dimensions of: 3.60 x 3.60 x 0.90 cm and a weight of: 0.011 kg, so it is quite small, only available in white. It is made of plastic, in the center we can see the figure of a thermometer, below is a small LED that lights green and at the top we have a single button to turn it on and off. Leaving it pressed for a few seconds this will get ready to synchronize with our Smartphone.

We can synchronize it with our Smartphone through the Xiaomi Home application, which we can download from the Apple Store or the Google Play store. Its function is simple but practical, depending on where we locate the will be responsible for detecting temperature levels and humidity, if we have other devices linked to the Xiaomi Home, such as an air conditioner or heater, this will automatically send a signal depending on whether to cool or heat the place.

Xiaomi Aqara: Light control

The Xiaomi Aqara light control is a white device with dimensions of: 8.50 x 8.50 x 4.20 cm and a weight of: 0.123 kg. It comes in 2 versions, a single button and 2 buttons, the difference between the two is minimal so either of the 2 will serve us quite well. The Xiaomi Aqara light control is an intelligent switch that we must connect to the wiring of the bulb or lamp we want to control, once this is done we will proceed to turn it on to synchronize it with our Smartphone through the application of Xiaomi Home.

Xiaomi Aqara: Door and Window Sensor

The Xiaomi Aqara sensor for door and window is a device that comes in pair, are white with dimensions of: 4.10 x 2.20 x 1.10 cm and a weight of: 0.015 kg. It has a slightly rounded design and has a small LED on the front that indicates that it is on. It is easy to install as it comes with stickers that allow us to adhere it on both a door and a window, each one goes at one end and detect when the door or window opens.

Xiaomi Aqara: Wireless Switch

The Xiaomi Aqara wireless switch is designed to be a comfortable device, easy to use and practical. It has slightly rounded edges, a classic in Aqara products, maintains the typical white color, has dimensions of: 4.20 x 4.20 x 1.20 cm and a weight of: 0.018 kg. Its function is clearly oriented to synchronization with other devices, we must download the Xiaomi Home application to synchronize it with our Smartphone, from there we can synchronize it with other devices, allowing us to turn them on or off through it, just pressing the button in the center.

Xiaomi Aqara: Intelligent Curtain Motor

The Xiaomi Aqara intelligent curtain motor has a very elegant design, being completely white, with dimensions of: 26.70 x 7.00 x 5.00 cm and a weight of: 1,301 kg. Its function is dedicated to provide a more pleasant experience in our home, controlling the open or close our curtains, we can do this remotely through our Smartphone, synchronizing with the application Xiaomi Home.