Xiaomi products for the home, future and design come together

The Chinese manufacturer Xiaomi continues to launch more interesting products on the market every day. On this occasion we want to present you several of them that are home-oriented such as the smart lamp Eyecare Smart Lamp 2, Xiaomi Yeelight RGBW E2 Smart LED Bulb and Xiaomi Smart Home Home Kit, three products that are sold separately but that, as we will see below, are prepared to work as a team and achieve a smarter and more functional home.

Xiaomi Smart Home, the control center

The Xiaomi Smart Home Home Kit It is made up of 4 different products. The main one of all is the gateway that serves as the main control element for the rest of the devices. Thanks to this gateway it is possible to communication between the smartphone app Mi Home App and the rest of Xiaomi elements, but not only does it stay in that since it also has a fully configurable 16 million color LED lamp included and that also allows you to play the radio via Wi-Fi.

The rest of the kit components are:

Un BodySensor, which, as its name suggests, is a movement sensor that allows detecting when someone approaches, moves away, etc.
Un door-window sensor, which is a sensor that is placed on doors or windows to detect when they open, close etc.
Wireless Switcher, which is a kind of on / off button that allows us to easily turn off and on all devices at the same time.

The complete kit It costs € 35 and you can buy it directly from this link.

Smart Lamp Eyecare Smart Lamp 2

The Eyecare Smart Lamp 2 is the second generation of Xiaomi smart lamps. It is a product that has been developed in collaboration with Philips and as soon as we take it out of the box it is clear to us that we are facing a futuristic design product and high quality. Made of food grade silicone, the body of the lamp can be bent up to 180º which allows it to illuminate areas of a desk in a very comfortable way. It is very pleasant to the touch and is only available in white.

The basis of the Eyecare Smart Lamp 2

Lamp base features various touch buttons to turn on the device, raise and lower the intensity and activate an intensity sensor that regulates the intensity of the lamp automatically. Although the control can also be done through the App Mi Home application.

El Xiaomi smart lamp price is € 45 y you can buy it directly from here.

Xiaomi Yeelight RGBW E27 Smart LED Bulb

Xiaomi's smart LED bulb is a much cheaper alternative to Philips Hue and with practically the same level of quality. It offers up to 16 million colors that will allow you to create a fully customizable color atmosphere in your home. It comes equipped with Wifi technology so that, like the rest of the devices that we have seen in this article, it can be controlled remotely through the Mi Home App, either individually each bulb or by grouping them together and managing several bulbs at the same time. weather.

The estimated life of this bulb is more than 11 years so we can forget to buy spare parts in a long time.

The smart LED bulb has a cost of € 17 and you can buy it here at the best possible price.

My Magic Controller, a very original remote

Así de limpio luce el diseño del Mi Magic Controller

This is how clean the design of the Mi Magic Controller looks

The Mi Magic controller is a original cube-shaped remote control and without any button. Command is controlled from several predefined events (hit, shake, rotate, squeeze, turn 90 degrees, ...) that we can assign to concrete actions. From the Gateway we receive these events and we can assign the action we want to each of them. A different way to control a suite of different products manufactured by the Chinese giant Xiaomi.

The price of the Magic Controller is € 17 and you can buy it from here.

Points in favor

Among the points in favor of Xiaomi products we have to highlight its careful design, great if you want to incorporate technology into your home without affecting the visual aspect of it. What's more all of them are perfectly integrated with each other, allowing you to control all the devices from your smartphone thanks to the Mi Home App.

Another very prominent point is its great value for money. Equivalent products in brands such as Philips go to several hundred euros, while with Xiaomi we can have this complete kit for just over € 110 and with very interesting features.

Points against

As a further point against we have that Xiaomi is a brand that is currently very focused on the Chinese market and this shows. The app is translated into English but not 100%, so we can find difficulties when configuring some steps if we are in front of a menu in Chinese. The same goes for the product instructions, they all come in Chinese only.

What can we configure with all this?

Thanks to the integration and functionalities of all the elements analyzed, we can incorporate functions such as the following into our home:

Courtesy light to go to bed and get up: We can put a motion sensor in our room and configure any of the lamps to turn on with a dim light when detecting movement. So that courtesy light will accompany us when we go to bed or if we get up during the night.
Courtesy light when entering the house: With the door opening sensor and any of the lamps or bulbs we can detect when the door is opened and activate the lights.
Alarm: In a similar way to the previous one, we can set up a simple alarm at home that detects if a door or window has been opened.

These are just a few examples that we can think of but there are many more. For example Xiaomi also sells a temperature sensor so that we can change the hue of the lights depending on the temperature of the home, showing blue lights when it's cold and a warmer color like orange when it's hot.

Would we buy this product kit?

Assessing pros and cons our answer is yes. With the Xiaomi Smart Home we can provide our home with smart functionalities at a low cost and with good results.