Xiaomi is known to be one of the brands with a better value for money. With a catalog that ranges from the most advanced smartphone to screwdriver bits, the Chinese brand has earned on its own merits one of the top positions among the best-known brands and valued by users.
Aqara, Xiaomi's home automation brand, already has in its catalog a good number of "smart" devices for our home, such as light bulbs or smart locks. In a recent conference they have shown new products and also the intention of making their devices compatible with the HomePod, that is, with HomeKit. Great news that we develop below.
Xiaomify says so, and also indicates an approximate date: end of 2018. Xiaomi wants its home automation products to be compatible with the main smart speakers on the market, and that includes the Amazon Alexa, the HomePod, and it can (this has not 100% insured) than the Google Home. We do not know how the Chinese brand is going to do it, if with a bridge that makes its old devices compatible with HomeKit, or if It will do so by taking advantage of the new option that Apple offers to certify its products as compatible through software, without the need for a specific chip as required until now.
The fact is that we can have smart products compatible with HomeKit at very competitive prices, such as plugs, switches, temperature and humidity sensors, even motors for curtains or locks that will open with our fingerprint. We already have brands like koogeek which They offer us HomeKit products at very competitive prices, and with the arrival of Xiaomi this improves even more. Great news for those of us who are gradually entering the world of home automation and for those who have not done so until now due to the high prices that these devices used to have.
