Mi Home, discover the functionalities of the Xiaomi application

 Mi Home is the Xiaomi app with which you can communicate with all the devices that the brand groups together under the name MiJia (Xiaomi smart home -Mi-). The IoT Xiaomi ecosystem continues to grow with new smart devices for home, urban mobility devices, lighting products, plugs and so on .

In order to facilitate the communication and control of the different products for the user, the Xiaomi Mi Home application allows linking the different smart devices of the brand and automating functions and tasks with which to achieve greater performance and greater automation in the home.

Mi Home is compatible with Android and iOS devices . Let's see its functionalities.

What products are compatible with Mi Home?

Although, as we said, the MiJia ecosystem does not stop growing, the products currently compatible with Xiaomi Mi Home are:            

•electric scooter Mi Scooter,

•smart fans: Mi Pro wireless fan, Mi Smart Standing Fan standing fan,

•robot vacuum cleaner Mi Vacuum,

•air purifier Mi Air Purifier 3H,

•security cameras Mi Home Security Camera,

•WI-Fi amplifier Mi WI-Fi Rage

•smart plugs Mi Smart Plug

•lighting products: Mi LED Smart Bulb Essential, Mi LED Smart Bulb, Mi LED Desk Lamp, Mi Bedside Lamp,

•home appliances: smart kettle, smart kettle, rice cooker, Mi Induction Heating Rice Cooker, Mi Induction Cooker induction hob,

•temperature and humidity sensors,

•motion sensor,

•door and window sensor,

•toothbrushes,

•water and pet food dispensers,

•and so on.

* Some of these products are not yet available in Spain.

How to pair your device

Once the Mi Home application has been downloaded , before linking your device (be it one or more) it is necessary to register a Xiaomi account if you do not have one.

Once the account is activated through your email or phone number, linking any compatible product is very simple.

You can activate the Bluetooth of your smartphone and bring it closer to the device so that the Xiaomi app detects it automatically or you can click on the "Add Device" button and select the one you want to link from the list offered by the application:

Mi Home functions

Depending on the device that we have linked to the Xiaomi app, we will have access to some functionalities or others. Let's see some of the most common examples according to each device:

Security Cameras Mi Security Home

Once the Xiaomi security camera is linked with the application, we can access functions such as:

1.Activate or deactivate live surveillance of an enabled camera. Within the live surveillance function, Mi Home allows:

•adjust the sharpness of the image,

•change the angle of portrait and landscape view,

•capture an image,

•record the screen or perform remote communications, among other functions.

2.Share the camera view with another user who also has the app installed on their smartphone.

My Vacuum robot

Xiaomi's smart vacuum cleaner is another of the most used devices in the application. Through the app you can:

1.Manually operate the My Robot.

2.Carry the vacuum cleaner monitoring: the cleaning direction and its exact position.

3.Activate and deactivate the vacuum cleaner.

4.Change the cleaning mode.

5.View the daily, paper and monthly progress of each cleaning session.

6.And so on.

My Scooter

The Xiaomi electric scooter , as part of the brand's IoT ecosystem, is also compatible with Mi Home , which allows access to the following information:

1.State of battery : remaining battery percentage, status, current, temperature, serial number, capacity ...

2.Scooter speed and mileage records : current speed, trip mileage, total mileage ...

3.Cruise control : when activated, the option is enabled on the scooter to set its speed by simply leaving the accelerator fixed for 5 seconds in the same position. When you brake or touch the accelerator again, the device will return to manual speed.

4.Set the energy recovery to weak, medium or strong as desired by the user.

5.Enable if we want the rear light to be always on.

6.Update the firmware of the scooter.

7.Lock skateboard and set unlock password . This is single of the most interesting features offered by the Xiaomi app to provide greater safety to the scooter. With it you can enable a password necessary to control the vehicle, lock the engine and access its information.

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