If you’re not bridging a Xiaomi gateway like I am, I can understand the disappointment in their devices. But selling the leak sensors does not make sense to me.
Those are still joined to my HE and have never dropped once, where all other Xiaomi devices, except for the Mijia motion sensors have dropped when directly joined to HE. In fact, I had a hose break off on our kitchen faucet day before yesterday and the little Xiaomi leak sensor did its job perfectly as usual.
I get not liking the other Xiaomi devices if you’re trying to make them be 100% stable when joined to HE. They are essentially a proprietary version of Zigbee, not so much unlike Control4 Zigbee is. But when you join a Xiaomi device to a Xiaomi gateway, you will then understand why they did things that way. They are without a doubt the most stable device across an entire product line I’ve experienced before.
It’s kind of expected that even when you have a proprietary system such as Insteon, that you’re maybe going to have a problem with at least one of their own devices. Xiaomi is astonishingly good at maintaining this consistency across two different lines, built by many different manufacturers. It’s kind of crazy how quickly they all pair and just never let go when the controller is either Aqara or Mijia.
