Xiaomi Gateway and Switch

[saleem145 (Saleem Mukhtar)]

Does Xiaomi stuff work out of the box with openhab? How easy is it to setup?

[H102 (CM6.5 H102)]

Here’s one place to start:

My openHab Setup

I thought I’d document some stuff here on my openHAB setup, to help future guys, and also get some tips or suggestions from the community. My name is Carel. I live in South Africa. I’m really interested in IoT and home automation, and thus I’m slowly automating and smartifying my existing house as I go. Setup So I’m running openHAB on a Raspberry Pi 2. I used the Openhabian installer, and it was a fairly straight forward installation. For sensors I use Xiaomi Smarthome devices. Although they…

If not wanting to use a proprietary gateway:

Howto use zigbee2mqtt with openHAB, removing proprietary bridges / gateways

If you want to use zigbee2mqtt with openHAB, please advance to the next level. The following is a far nicer implementation of the same stuff, just with the mqtt2 binding and a new option of zigbee2mqtt The old stuff, if you prefer the mqtt1 binding and too many tranformations, please go ahead. Recently io discovered zigbee2mqtt, which made me think of getting rid of my hue bridge and being able to use a large number of cheap sensors. This works pretty well. I already joined 15 devices (inclu…

Another good place for info is to search the forum. Here’s a quick search using keywords “Xiaomi Gateway Setup”.

https://community.openhab.org/search?q=Xiaomi%20Gateway%20Setup