Overview Mi Smart - a set of safety sensors from Xiaomi

Equipment

The kit Xiaomi Mi Smart except the gadget includes manual, warranty card, leaf and with additional labels to clip sensor reset settings.

Consider all that is in the set. The largest unit - a plug-controller.

This is the heart of our smart home. It controller responds sound and light signals when triggered other sensors.

So look sensors that react to movement.

And so - motion sensors windows and doors. Each of them consists of two elements: one is tech stuffing, the other - just a magnet.

Last device - button.

In all the sensors already inserted the batteries. This conventional disposable trohvoltnye "pills» CR2450, CR2032 and CR1632, which can be purchased at any electronics store.

installation

The only element of the set, in a location that you are somehow limited - this controller. It requires a power outlet. The gadget is quite large, so in the conventional surge protector it may take on other devices. The controller is better to insert into a separate wall socket.

Connecting the controller - the first step in setting up a smart home. Also Mi Home application, you need to download, it will display all the instructions for installing the sensors.

The process connection is simple, but sometimes after loading the application gives an error and offers to try to synchronize the controller again. It took us a few tries before it worked as it should.

On the back side of each transducer has an adhesive layer. To mount the device, you need to remove the film and leaned against it to the surface. Fixed sensors reliably: we tried to re-stick the same gadget three times, and each time the device breaks away from the wall with difficulty. Trace is left. If in the near future you will find the move, the sensors can still be put: you will easily disassemble them and place in the new apartment. Especially with a spare set of stickers.

If a conventional motion sensors all clear, then with paired windows and doors all a bit more complicated. The signal sent to the smart controller and when the distance between the sensor and the magnet. They should be located close to each other when the door or window closed, and contact between them should be torn when the flap swings open. We have set the sensor as follows:

To set up a new sensor, you must do the same thing with the controller: press the "+" in the upper right corner of the application Mi Home, find the device in the list and follow the instructions. They are more or less the same and involves several steps: Reset the sensor by using a hidden button (here need a clip from the set) and a choice of room for it in the application.

With localization in Mi Home all strange. Mistakes we did not come across, but it is noticeable that in the hieroglyphs fit more information than in Cyrillic letters: long names are interrupted by dots. And yet there are a lot of English: to transfer some of the phrases did not reach the hands of developers.

After adding all the devices you will be able to switch between rooms and see where some sensors are installed and what they were trying to notify you for the last time.

Using

Intelligent security system works like this: Sensors can smell a rat, and send a signal to the base - the controller. The default one making a sound (which one depends on the sensor) lights up and sends a notification to your smartphone.

But sensors use only as a safety device is optional. If you are not afraid of robbers, then still be able to find a use items Xiaomi Mi Smart. For example, set them on the kettle, light bulbs and other smart gadgets.

By default, motion sensors trigger when activated siren. Most likely, this algorithm you remove, because the sensor is not able to distinguish you and your cat from an attacker, and will howl in any activity. But you can buy bulb from Xiaomi, Associate it with a security system and screwed, for example, in the bathroom. The sensor detects the movement and turn on the light. Conveniently.

Motion Sensor windows and doors can also be connected to the controller, which will emit a sound when unauthorized access. You can also link a motion sensor windows, air-conditioned, so he turned off when the air gets into the apartment from the street. Or, for example, with a light bulb in the hallway so that it turns on when you come home.

If sticking switch Mi Smart to the underside of the countertop and customize siren when pressed, you get something such as a panic button, which will send out a notification smartphones synchronized with smart home and the burglar scare loud sound.

In a typical apartment alarm button still is not needed, so you can link the switch with a lamp or, for example, use it as a doorbell. But in our set were only sensors with the controller, so the option was little.

Settings and access to smart home, you can share in the appendix Mi Home. To control it you can use any modern devices on iOS and Android. In addition, if you are smart gadgets from "Yandex», Mi Smart will still work, with responding to commands of "Alice". Check the interaction of different scenarios we could not, but says producer Xiaomi's online store.

results

Xiaomi Mi Smart does not cause delight. This is the basic system of smart home, with an emphasis on safety, which is functioning normally.

Before you turn your house into a smart, you should consider whether it is really you need. The experience of our office, for example, shows that the system with the classic wall switches still convenient.

If you have decided, then collect the smart home gadgets from Xiaomi - a good choice. The Chinese manufacturer of a huge range of devices available, many of which are sold in the official Russian store. You can start with a set of Mi Smart for 6990 rubles - with it you will be immediately triggered the controller and key devices.

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The author expresses his gratitude to the company Xiaomi for providing the test device.