Smart location institution Aqara has announced nan Voice Mate H1 — a location automation sound power strategy activated by picking up a mini puck alternatively than its microphone ever listening for its aftermath word. The institution is besides launching its first outdoor camera, nan Camera Hub G5 Pro, which, for illustration its different cameras, will activity pinch Apple’s HomeKit Secure Video.
These products, on pinch a caller car shed doorway controller, smart valve shut-off device, and caller smart switches (for Europe only), were announced astatine nan IFA tech show this week. Aqara hasn’t provided pricing aliases readiness yet.
While smart speakers and phones pinch built-in sound assistants are easy ways to power your smart home, by design, they are ever listening for their aftermath word. Aqara’s caller Voice Mate H1 only activates its microphones erstwhile you prime up nan mini puck-like device.
The Voice Mate is integrated pinch Aqara Co-Pilot, Aqara’s LLM-powered assistant, and nan institution says it tin execute smart location scenes and set instrumentality settings utilizing earthy connection commands. There are nary speakers connected board, truthful it doesn’t talk back. This is an absorbing idea, and while it does sacrifice nan hands-free quality of a sound adjunct you’re gaining nan emotion of much privacy.
It besides requires Aqara’s Hub M3 to operate, and Aqara says each commands are cleared from nan hub aft completion. The Hub M3 is Aqara’s flagship hub for its smart home. It's a Matter span and Thread separator router and tin activity pinch prime Matter devices from different manufacturers. Aqara is further expanding nan hub’s capabilities pinch a caller Advanced Matter Bridging characteristic that will fto you larboard nan Aqara app’s powerful conditions and actions to different Matter apps.
According to Aqara, this intends you tin merge precocious features specified arsenic car cruise for its cookware and tilt cameras into different Matter-compatible platforms, specified arsenic Apple Home aliases Google Home.
Image: Aqara
And speaking of cameras, nan Camera Hub G5 Pro is nan first outdoor Apple HomeKit Secure Video compatible camera I’ve seen that tin activity complete PoE arsenic good arsenic Wi-Fi (2.4GHz/5GHz, pinch a USB-C powerfulness cable). The IP65-rated camera offers 1520p solution (although it downgrades to 1080p if you usage it done Apple Home), colour nighttime vision, a spotlight, a siren, and a 133-degree section of view.
Interestingly, you tin still use from end-to-end encryption if you usage it extracurricular of HKSV (which allows you to shop recorded video successful your iCloud account). Aqara says nan G5 Pro is its first camera tin of this unafraid shape of communication. It has encrypted eMMC retention that tin beryllium synced to clouds (Aqara’s for a interest and iCloud) and to a section NAS strategy (for free). It doesn’t person onboard microSD paper storage, but it tin grounds to a web video recorder utilizing RTSP (Aqara’s first camera tin of this).
The G5 Pro offers free on-device AI that tin observe faces, vehicles, pets, packages, and mobility and usage them arsenic triggers to commencement signaling video.
Alongside Apple Home compatibility, nan G5 useful pinch Amazon Alexa, Google Home, and Samsung SmartThings. It’s besides an Aqara Zigbee hub and a Matter span — making it 1 of nan first outdoor smart location hubs I’ve seen.
Image: Aqara
Here’s a look astatine nan different caller products Aqara announced astatine IFA this week:
- The LED Bulb T2 is Aqara’s first statement of smart bulbs that useful complete Thread and Zigbee. The T2 bid includes E26/A19, E27, and GU10 bulbs pinch afloat colour and tunable achromatic options arsenic good arsenic white-only. It tin activity pinch an Aqara Zigbee hub aliases pinch Matter utilizing a Thread separator router.
- The Light Switch H2 bid are Aqara’s newest in-wall smart move for Europe. These are besides Zigbee and Thread. Aqara appears to beryllium hedging its bets here, offering users “the prime betwixt nan autochthonal Matter-over-Thread support and nan wider, Zigbee-enabled characteristic set.” The implementation of Matter-over-Thread has been bumpy, truthful I tin spot why Aqara is taking this route, but it doesn’t thief pinch nan wide purpose of simplifying nan smart home. The bully news is that you tin move betwixt protocols and effort each 1 retired to spot what useful champion successful your home. The switches activity pinch aliases without a neutral wire, which supports features specified arsenic powerfulness monitoring, overload protection, and a configurable LED indicator.
Image: Aqara
- The Garage Door Controller T2 Kit is Aqara’s first smart car shed doorway opener and nan first to support Matter. It has wireless sensors and supports up to 2 car shed doors. You tin adjacent and unfastened them remotely successful nan Aqara app, aliases usage geofencing to do this automatically based connected location, positive there’s nan action of app aliases sound control. The T2 useful straight pinch Apple Home, Google Home, and different Matter-compatible platforms done an Aqara hub.
Image: Aqara
- The Valve Controller T1 is an automatic shut-off valve that tin activity pinch h2o and state pipes. It tin beryllium group to respond to immoderate leak detected by a smart sensor by automatically shutting disconnected a valve. The T1 is simply a retrofit instrumentality pinch nary plumbing aliases wiring required (it uses 4 AA batteries Aqara says will past up to a year). It useful complete Zigbee and requires an Aqara hub, done which it useful arsenic a Matter instrumentality successful supported Matter ecosystems specified arsenic Apple Home, Google Home, Home Assistant, and Samsung SmartThings.
All these caller gadgets thief information retired nan company’s offerings successful nan smart home, bringing it adjacent to a complete ecosystem. Combined pinch its wide compatibility, innovative automation options, and expanding support for Matter, Aqara is making a very bully lawsuit for itself arsenic a awesome subordinate successful nan smart home.
English (US) · 
Indonesian (ID) ·