How The Aqara Mini Switch OVERHAULED My HomeKit Smart Home 😳

A tiny little button has OVERHAULED My HomeKit Home!

The Aqara Mini Switch has made it easier for me, my wife, and guests to control our HomeKit smart home with ease. The are 3 different type of button presses: single press, double press, and long press and each button can be configured to control your HomeKit devices and scenes.

⏰ CHAPTERS ⏰
0:00 - Intro
0:19 - Controlling my HomeKit home is now even EASIER
1:26 - Setup with the Aqara Hub
2:17 - How to Program The Buttons in HomeKit (+ Automation Ideas!)
5:46 - Aqara Mini Switch Problem (Because of Apple…)
6:01 - Why NFC Tags Are Better
6:54 - Final Thoughts

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[AdamsTechLife]

Do you use an Aqara Mini Switch, NFC Tags, or both in your HomeKit home?

[TheBradLloyd]

Love this video Adam and agree these buttons are a must to include in your Smart Home especially to keep family and friends happy! Your videos are always so upbeat with a great pace! Keep up the great work!

[myHomeKithome]

Outstanding video Adam! HomeKit buttons are so overlooked. The possibilities are nearly endless

[obilong]

Finally a guy who makes video for aqara products, i use all the xiaomi products and only the lights works with homekit and i want to trasfer my security items to aqara items. Question can aqara hub rings from apple homepod for security alarm instead of hubs speaker?

[Polkster]

Thanks for the video and the ideas.I have several Aqara hubs and 5 of their cameras. Whenever my in-laws visit, they are always turning off my lamps with switch on the lamp which kills power to my smart bulbs. They don't like using SIRI so I am going to get one of these buttons and have it turn off all of the lights in the Guest bedroom. This will make like so much better for the both of us.

[brittanyparker-vaughan]

I purchased a bunch of Aqaba sensors for Prime Day - no regrets. They’ve already caught a leak under the kitchen sink, and made controlling my baby’s lights easier with a mini switch on the windowsill next to the rocking chair. I bought way more, but those are just two that have paid immediate dividends. In your automation video, could you go over using the temperature sensors with Ecobee? I have yet to find a good tutorial on it.

[aeonjoeyd]

I did the same thing with a hue hub and hue dimmer remotes, the hub was $50 for the hub, two bulbs, and the remotes were $16 and $20 each used.

[Heinrichsreither]

Hey Adam, how do I do the same you did with the fan, with my curtain? If at 100% then close, what is the otherwise section? Or does it need to be a different shortcut?

[Maxie_Mack]

AH PERFECT! A physically togglable remote to do what i want! Why has no one thought of this?!

[mrezedj]

hey, I wanted to ask you a question about the aqara smart button, the function I want to give to that smart button is that when you press it, a shortcut that I have made in the ios shortcut app is executed, since I have a shortcut made in which my roborock robot and other accessories that are NOT within the homekit or ¨tuyä app are run, I already have a zigbee smart button and it has been automatically added to the ¨tuyä app and also to homekit because I have a matters zigbee tuya gateway, but I can't get the button to execute a shortcut from the shortcut app that I had already made, does this aqara button give me the ability to do so?

[Isaac.Bischof]

Does the buttons also work just with a homepod as a hub, or do I need to have a aquara hub?

[Hikerhikeshikes]

I’ve had some weird experiences with this switch for arming my “away guard”.
I have a 15 second exit delay after a single press. Many times after a single press I don’t hear the first sound that indicates the countdown to arming has begun. It’s like a “Pling” sound. It’s only happening when the alarm system is armed, and the “beep” to indicate the system has been armed comes 15 seconds later. It’s completely out of sync.

[timwong]

hi i wonder if you can help me. I successfully added my mini switch via the M2 hub to the aqara app but i cannot find the mini switch apprering anywhere in my Apple Homekit app hence cannot use it to control my apple lights. Please help if you can. thank you. tim w.

[nickpanzeca]

Hey Adam, great video. I recently bought some mini switches and installed the first one in the Aqara app but can’t get it to go over to home kit. Am I missing something?

[karlnone]

Can you use the mini switch to turn on the Alert System?

[djjluvv]

hey I keep getting no response on my g2h in HomeKit, which in turn knocks all the accessories off also any idea how to fix this please. It worked great for a few weeks.

[geraldcapo]

Hey man.. still loving your videos it’s me.. the guy that asked about the nfc tags things (hope I’m calling them the right name) the other day.. do u have a video how to have Siri red you something just how u did at 4:13?

[blackbeard]

The status query does not have to be in the automation, it can also be done without.

[mavirek]

Wait, we add Homekit products to avoid physically lifting a finger, and then they sell us back the very finger-lifting process in a newfangled device in case we miss lifting a finger?

[usi]

Does it not work with the aqara E1 usb hub ?