Xiaomi is a Chinese company that has already become a master when it comes to offering innovative gadgets to make our lives much easier. Today we must refer to a couple of devices that came out recently baptized as Aqara, these are Aqara Smart Curtain Motor and Aqara wireless light switch, which have entered the market after passing through the crowdfunding platform of the Chinese manufacturer.

What is the Xiaomi Aqara product line?

Xiaomi Aqara is the latest line of products for the home offered by the Chinese company. This is born from its crownfunding platform MIJIA (Xiaomi's submarine) through which they have already passed a large amount of devices for their collective financing (almost 80). The new Aqara line so far consists of 7 devices that promise to provide automated solutions for our home and at the same time make our home a 'smarter home'. From sensors for doors and windows to an intelligent power adapter are some of the items in this new line from Xiaomi, in addition to the two we are talking about today.

Aqara Smart Curtain Motor

The Aqara Smart Curtain Motor Curtain is an engine that as its name indicates, allows us to have total control over the curtains in any of the rooms of our home, either controlling them directly or programming the device to act autonomously whether or not we are present. It can be managed through an application in our mobile (App Mi Home) as well as using the remote control included. However, the device is only suitable for vertical blinds but this is likely to change in the future.

In addition, among the programming options of the Aqara Smart Curtain Motor from the smartphone application is to configure the curtains to open and / or close at a defined time. This option is useful, for example, if we have in the home with plants that need a specific amount of light each day, as well as to take care of the light that our furniture receive, the possibilities are many.

Similarly, the Aqara Smart Curtain Motor can also use the wireless network protocol ZigBee. After this synchronization, it can be configured to open the curtains when we approach the window and close them when we move away from it, which is very cool and futuristic.

Aqara wireless light switch

On the other hand, the Aqara wireless light switch will allow us to have a better control of the on and off of the lights in our home, since replacing the switches in our home by the Xiaomi Aqara we may be able to manage from our smartphone the operation of them, for it is also necessary to have the Aqara Gateway.

Also, as in the case of almost all devices in the Xiaomi Aqara line, the switch works with ZigBee wireless communication technology, so the programming options are quite wide.

• Controls your home appliances anywhere via your smart phone
• Sets a schedule to turn on/off home appliances.
• Monitors energy consumption of your appliances.
• Ask Siri, Alexa or Google Assistant to control appliances.