# Mi(Xiaomi) Smart home bindings?

**URL:** <https://community.openhab.org/t/mi-xiaomi-smart-home-bindings/4711>\
**Category:** Home Automation\
**Created:** [December 2, 2015, 1:16pm UTC](https://community.openhab.org/t/mi-xiaomi-smart-home-bindings/4711 "2015-12-02T13:16:10Z")\
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@Moellegaard no AudioSink at the moment, since [the documentation](https://github.com/louisZL/lumi-gateway-local-api) doesn’t specify the way to handle audio streams (i.e. radio). Hopefully it’ll happen in the future.

@theo69 I bought the wired wall switch but didn’t test it yet. [It is supported already by the binding](https://github.com/carecon/openhab2-addons/tree/master/addons/binding/org.openhab.binding.mihome) so you may try it yourself 🙂

@Olymp yeah, it’s the nature of [ESH Marketplace Add-on](https://community.openhab.org/t/distributing-bindings-through-the-iot-marketplace/24491) - you need to install the marketplace bindings again after each update.

> [@Distributing bindings through the IoT Marketplace](https://community.openhab.org/t/distributing-bindings-through-the-iot-marketplace/24491/1):
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> Note 2: The jars are installed in the OSGi cache - which means that they are lost upon an openHAB distro upgrade (which cleans the cache) - you will have to manually re-install then from the marketplace. As the main use case for the start will be for testing pre-releases, I think this is acceptable. For the future, I also plan an improved mechanism, which would download the jars to the addons folder (or something similar), so that they are kept over an upgrade as well.

@Lewis yes, at the moment you need the Xiaomi Gateway. Just make sure you have at least Gateway v2 (with radio support), because the older one doesn’t support the developer mode.  
Xiaomi sensors/devices are essentially ZigBee-based, but the only way to make them talk to the openHAB ecosystem is to connect them with (cloud based) Gateway.  
@chris makes some great progress with the [ZigBee binding](https://github.com/openhab/org.openhab.binding.zigbee), however I don’t think it’s possible now to integrate Xiaomi devices with it.

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