Hi guys! I’m considering purchasing a Xiaomi air purifier 4 (possibly). I wanted to make sure I can use from the Home Assitant app, while the router’s firewall blocks its online connectivity outside the home network. Do the xiaomi devices connected in HA need online connectivity in order to continue to work?

Also…many of their wristbands series for example need at least to connect once in order to get an auth token that you can then use on gadgetbridge. Do you need any kind of shenanigans to get the purifiers to work on HA?

  • RvTV95XBeoEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I know it’s not a direct answer to your question, but I just wanted to draw attention to the IKEA Starkvind air purifier, fully compatible with ZigBee, totally offline

    • iturnedintoanewt@lemm.eeOPEnglish
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      1 day ago

      IKEA Starkvind

      Thanks! I did consider it, as I have a preference for Zigbee, since it’s all offline first. But due to the tricky layout of my apartment, the Xiaomi made more sense. I’m not discarding it for the future though (I didn’t know it had zigbee).