The Aqara Motion Sensor P1 requires the Aqara Hub E1

• Configurable Detection Timeout
• Built-in light sensor
• Up to 170 degrees field of view
• 5 year battery life

The Aqara Smart Radiator Thermostat E1 requires the Aqara Hub E1. It can be controlled via Apple Homekit and Siri, Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant and more.

It can be used with the majority of water radiators including space heaters, towel warmers or even warm floors.

• Zigbee 3.0 protocol
• External temperature readings
• Colourful backlit display
• Geofencing and multi home support
• Easy installation and compatibility
• Configurable smart schedules

I don’t like the way the batteries are inserted. In the battery compartment there are two battery slots for AA batteries. The springs in the slots are both at the same end of the slots. I usually put the batteries into gadgets with the negative end of the battery on the spring. Not in this case. The polarity is different on one of them. It took me a while to work out what I’d done wrong.

The Aqara Hub E1 is a smart home control centre, that enables your Aqara devices to support Apple Homekit, Amazon Alexa, Google Home and other ecosystems.

Powered by USB-A.

210 degree adjustable shaft.

Up to 128 child devices

Wi-Fi repeater

WiFi certified

Zigbee certified

Model: HE1-G01

Dimensions: 108x30x8 mm

Input power: 5V @ 0.5A

Wireless protocols:

• Zigbee 3.0 IEEE 802.15.4
• Wi-Fi IEEE 802.11 b/g/n 2.4GHz

Email
Online customer service returns a 404 not found, and suggests looking at the Aqara Facebook page

As usual my ’to do’ list is too long. My desk is a mess and needs to be tidied/cleaned. I should be doing that rather than typing this.

Adding to my list today:

I’d like to somehow have separate repositories for my Hugo blog and my Hugo setup. I want to be able to have the Hugo setup as a public repository that you, dear reader, can see exactly how it is. I want the actual blog source to be private so that you don’t see the draft posts which I don’t want to be published to the public, that’s you again, at least not yet! As far as I can see acheiving this will require a private repository.

Too Many Hubs

• Amazon Echo
• Aqara Hub E1
• BT Whole Home mesh
• Switch
• Google Hub
• Hue Hub
• IKEA Hub
• Sonos Hub
• Three ZTE 5G router

Android Apps

• Action Blocks
• Amazon Alexa
• Aqara Home
• Assistant
• Bright
• Calendar
• Device Help
• Fing
• Fire TV
• Freeview
• GitHub
• Google One
• Google TV
• Home
• Home Assistant
• Home Smart
• Hue
• Hue BT
• Hue Essentials
• Humax Cast
• Kasa
• LDV WiFi
• Lohas Smart
• Nest
• PlusMinus
• Remote Desktop
• Sensor Charts
• Smart Life
• Sonos
• Support (Sony)
• Three
• WarmMe
• Whole Home WiFi

Hugo Search Options

Hugo Comment Options

Ther are various options to add a comments system to Hugo sites listed at: Hugo | Disqus

I have a new Aqara Hub E1¹ and Aqara Motion Sensor P1² connected and working with the Android Aqara Home app³. Today I hope to get them working with Home Assistant (HA⁴)

I’ve had a niggling concern that the hard drive on my Windows⁵ personal computer (PC⁶) won’t last forever and I wanted somewhere to have a backup in the event of a disaster. Google One⁷ seemed to be the most cost effective option for me, so I recently signed up to it.

Today I moan about my Amazon/Aqara disappointment on the Facebook HA UK group, and ask the group what they think I should do.

Hugo

Until now, I was struggling to work out how the home page of the Ananke theme example site displayed the ‘Articles’ link at the top of the page. Adding this line to hugo.toml made a really useful difference:

sectionPagesMenu = 'main'

Thanks to Harry Cresswell for the help.

How do I ‘hugo new’ remotely, to create new posts?

Further Reading

Git Tower Hugo Context Example

Aqara

I ordered a few items during Amazon Prime Day.

1. Aqara Smart Radiator Thermostat E1 x 2
2. Aqara Smart Hub E1
3. Aqara Motion Sensor P1

Only the radiator valves were delivered by Amazon but not the hub or the motion sensor although their website and app say it was all delivered. The valves don’t work without the hub, so I’ll be sending them back because I’d rather not pay full price for the hub and sensor which is what Amazon suggested. Very disappointing.