I bought a Xiaomi universal remote control at first, which is quite good. It has no power supply, only a USB cable. I put it on the overhead projector and got an outdated mobile phone charger to charge it. As it happens, I learned all the equipment I could learn. Many infrared emission tubes of this remote control are emitted from the top, making an angle of 45 degrees with the ceiling, so if you find that the remote control signal is not good enough, remember to remove the protective film at the top.
The universal remote control is still good and beautiful. Through it, you can put all the equipment in the same room, such as TV, power amplifier, air conditioner, projector, infrared remote control lamp and so on.
Alas, there is one drawback:
No matter whether my home is telecom ADSL or mobile optical fiber, it is very slow to enter the remote control interface of APP (through the shortcut built by Mijia directly on the mobile phone desktop or directly through the entrance of Mijia), and the delay is serious. Forget 2 or 3 seconds, sometimes you can't get in after 10 seconds. Usually, you just quit, and then you open the application again and want to click in.
As a result of this phenomenon, the function of controlling all devices with a mobile phone through a universal remote control has gradually become a chicken rib, and I don't like it very much every day.
Recently, I bought the lock of green rice Aqara and gave it to my upgraded green rice air conditioner companion. It's really nice to find this air-conditioning partner. It has all the functions of Xiaomi universal remote control, and all the functions of Xiaomi gateway except nightlight, and decisively eliminated the Xiaomi universal remote control that has been used for one year. This air-conditioning companion is easier to use than Xiaomi universal remote control, and the APP starts faster than the original Xiaomi universal remote control.
After tossing, I can control all the infrared control devices in the living room through the infrared remote control of this air-conditioning partner, and then I put the headlights in the living room (just a lamp I assembled myself, not Xiaomi's native compatible type). ), originally driven by a 2.4G remote control LED, I changed the drive to an infrared remote control drive (which can control the switch, brightness, color temperature and mode), so that the headlights in the living room can be remotely controlled by the air-conditioning partner's mobile phone. Need to be reminded that Taobao can now find an LED controller directly connected to Mijia WiFi, which can identify the device status, which is better than infrared control, but the price is much more expensive than infrared drive.
Purchase analysis:
So far, it is not recommended to buy a universal remote control. It is suggested that if you use the door magnet, human body sensor, intelligent plug and other devices of Xiaomi Zigbee network in piles at home, you can get an air-conditioning companion directly instead of buying a Xiaomi gateway, so that you have the functions of a universal remote control and a Xiaomi gateway, but you lack the nightlight function of the gateway (the light pollution in the city is so serious now, I never feel that I need a nightlight with curtains at home). In addition, the speaker volume of the gateway is slightly higher than that of the air conditioning partner.
Experience summary:
I won't introduce how these two devices learn from other remote controls, just follow the instructions.
In fact, it is not a good choice to use mobile phone as a remote control to control household appliances. I will choose this function only because sometimes it is really troublesome to find more than a dozen remote controls. At least the mobile phone has a centralized operation interface, and it is more convenient to press the on key in the software interface of Xiaomi universal remote control, and the on key is unified on the outermost side.
Fixed batch operation can create intelligence in Mijia's "intelligence" and perform batch processing with one click.
For example, if I want to watch a movie, I have to operate it in turn through the Mijia universal remote control: turn on the power amplifier, turn on the HTPC, turn on the projection and turn off the lights; After watching the movie, turn on the light, turn off the projection, turn off the power amplifier and turn off HTPC. For such a fixed series of operations with one key, it is realized by creating intelligence. Examples of operations are as follows:
Note that the above instructions "speaker on/off", "projector on/off" and "other living room lights on/off" did not exist in the system originally, but I created them myself by using Aqara gateway to learn the remote controllers of these devices on its "Other Electrical Appliances are" page.
Because I looked around in the process of tossing, I was vague everywhere, and my success depended on the words of the great gods. The process is tortuous, so I decided to write this article, so that the latecomers can see all the relevant information in one article.
I suddenly found that Xiaomi's smart speaker, Xiao Ai, can control almost all the devices that Mijia can control through voice, and my heart itches. I bought Xiao ai's AI speaker.
Sure enough! Very refreshing! Just tell Xiao Ai by voice, and Xiao Ai will send the execution instructions to the equipment that Mijia can control, which completely solves all kinds of troubles such as slow entry of mobile phones into the APP and troublesome operation! It is the gospel of students who have more than ten or twenty remote controls at home!
The following details how to control the functions of various devices individually or in combination with Xiao Ai, low-cost transformation and access of wire-controlled devices, access of RF remote control devices, Bluetooth MESH networking, transformation and access of ordinary lamps, etc.