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Xiaomi Mi Home and Aqara devices

Most plugs, fans and purifiers give up a local token after one cloud login, then run entirely on your network. Aqara's gateway hides a root shell the community can reach, though it does not survive a reboot.

ModelsMi Smart PlugSmartmi FanMi Air PurifierMi HumidifierAqara Hub
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What it can become

What owners already do with it, easiest first.

An evening~30 minNo risk

Control plugs, fans and purifiers without the app

Pull each device's token once with the console tool, then every command stays on your network, from a script or from Home Assistant.

An evening~30 minNo risk

Move Aqara sensors off the Aqara hub

Unpair a sensor from the Aqara app and re-pair it to your own Zigbee coordinator. It keeps working, next to any other Zigbee brand.

Hands-on~1 hCan brick it

Open a root shell on the gateway itself

A command sent over the miio protocol turns on Telnet on the gateway, letting a community daemon run Zigbee2MQTT directly on the hardware. It has to be re-enabled after every reboot.

Everything built for it

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