Smart home has developed rapidly in the past two years. At the moment of entering home, lights, televisions and other electrical equipment are automatically turned on, and can also be controlled remotely through mobile phone APP. These things that were only seen in movies can be easily realized at present. Xiaomi, who has always focused on the construction of smart home system, will naturally follow. At the beginning of 2015, it released a product: smart home package, which includes multi-functional gateway, door and window sensors, body sensors, wireless switches. How smart and how playable it is, see the following introduction for details

Unpacking and appearance:

Xiaomi's consistent environment-friendly kraft paper is used for the outer package. The "MI" logo on the front corner is simple and generous

Open the box, you will see a Mickey Rabbit cartoon, with pictures and words, which briefly introduces the use of this suit, making you feel suddenly enlightened. There is a thick sponge on the inside of the box cover, which plays a very good role in protection.

Open the cartoon, and the related equipment of Xiaomi Smart Home Suit is placed in an orderly manner on the lower floor（ There is a interlayer on one side of the box, which can be pulled out together with the cartoon page)

There are key pins in the interlayer, operation instructions and adhesive tape on the back. Pay special attention to the key pins on the left. The author didn't notice at first

All equipment of Xiaomi Smart Home Package: multi-function gateway, door and window sensors, body sensors, wireless switches, all of which are white in the main color, and can be integrated into various home decoration environments

The front of the multi-functional gateway was also full of holes. At first, it was thought that it was a heat sink. Later, after reading the manual, it was known that the middle hole was a sound outlet, and the five holes on both sides were light sensing areas, indicating that the multi-functional gateway also had a light sensing function

There are simple product parameters on the back, which are described in more detail in the manual. The hole here is really a cooling hole. After all, there are 18 full-color LED light beads inside

There is an On/Off key on the top. Click to turn the light on/off; Double click: alert start/cancel; Press three times: Add device locally

The multi-functional gateway can change 16 million colors and can be set in the APP. Do you think this circle of lights is very sci-fi

The front of the body sensor is an induction lens (with a status indicator light inside), which can intelligently detect the movement of people or pets around through temperature sensing（ One side has a reset hole)

In addition to the product parameters, there is also a circle of anti-skid mat at the bottom, which can be directly placed at the desired place, or it can be pasted at the desired place through the complimentary adhesive sticker

The wireless switch is small in shape, and the wireless design can be moved freely

In addition to product parameters, there are status indicators and reset holes on the back, which have been equipped with Adhesive backing. By rotating the bottom, the battery can also be disassembled and replaced

The door and window sensor is divided into host and magnet. The status indicator is on the front of the host and the reset hole is on the bottom

There is adhesive backing on the back

Xiaomi Smart Home Kit adopts the latest smart Zigbee protocol, which is ultra-low in energy consumption. It claims that the battery will not be replaced for two years, but it will still be used up. At this time, you can also replace the battery by yourself. In addition to the wireless switch being unscrewed from the bottom, the door and window sensors and human body sensors only need to pry open from the white and gray joints

APP experience:

Open Xiaomi's "Smart Home" APP (if not, scan the QR code on the manual to download it), and add a smart home package through the "+" in the upper right corner of my device

After the addition, there will be a brief introduction of four devices

On the home page of the smart home kit, you can clearly see four devices, with gateway lights, alert mode and volume settings at the bottom, and the sharing key and more function keys at the upper right corner

Click to enter the multi-function gateway, where you can adjust the color and brightness of the color lights, as well as other settings

Click to enter the human body sensor, which is mainly to add intelligent scenes. Scene settings are mainly divided into starting conditions and performing tasks

The default startup condition is "someone passes by", you can click to select your own conditions

Executable tasks are listed in Executable Tasks. If there are other Xiaomi devices at home, such as smart sockets, it will also be displayed here. You can select the socket or the switch of USB interface on the socket

Wireless switch and Door and window sensor The scene setting of is similar to that of the human body sensor

Use scenarios:

The following is only the scene that the author is currently using, and more play methods can be combined freely

When installing the door and window sensors, pay attention to the alignment, and the distance is less than 22mm. The setting scenario is: 17:00~22:00 after work at night, when you return home and open the door, the millet smart socket will be automatically opened. The millet socket is connected with the millet plug. The plug can be connected to the TV, network TV box or audio equipment that need to be opened at home at the same time.

The human body sensor is placed in the toilet, and two scenes are set. One is that the colored light of the human back gateway lights up after dark at night, and the other is that it automatically turns off when no one passes for 5 minutes (the place where the human body sensor is placed should be as close to the corner of the desktop as possible, which can effectively avoid blind areas)

The wireless switch is placed on the bedside table in the bedroom, and the scene is set to turn off the millet smart socket once, so that people can conveniently stay in the bedroom when the TV is not turned off. Of course, the millet socket is also set with timing, personal obsessive-compulsive disorder, to avoid standby of electrical equipment, and to save energy and electricity. The number of Xiaomi smart sockets at home is limited. If there are many, you can connect other electrical equipment. The wireless switch is set to press twice to control.

Of course, the wireless switch can also be used as the doorbell, but the author is still worried about being followed by others

Summary:

First of all, the biggest advantage of Xiaomi Smart Home Kit is that it is easy to install, wireless design, and you can put it wherever you want and stick it wherever you want. Secondly, I didn't expect that there would be so many ways to play. Before I received the product, I thought that the biggest role was security, and the greatest contribution to the realization of so many functions was due to the multi-functional gateway. However, I still feel a little lacking. Since it is a smart home suit, I haven't seen intelligent remote control devices. There are many similar products on the market. I hope Xiaomi can catch up, so it is not just to control the switch of electrical equipment.