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I’ll chip in too.

Oh thanks! That’s great news. Every box I’ve read says it needs the Aqara hub or doesn’t work with 3rd party hubs. Especially on Amazon.

Neat multi-sensor gizmo. I just started with ZigBee stuff in home automation and this seems like it has a lot of possibilities. However, I passed over Aqara in general as they seem to work only with their own hubs. If I’m wrong, let me know, but I try to avoid product lock-in.

Wait, what?

So you take a pic, it’s analysed, the analysis is encrypted, encrypted data is sent to a server that can deconstruct encrypted data to match known elements in a database, and return a result, encrypted, back to you?

Doesn’t this sort of bypass the whole point of encryption in the first place?

Edit: Wow! Thanks everyone for the responses. I’ve found a new rabbit hole to explore!

Ahhh reminds me of my youth.

Tried to build these in our garage with PVC pipe, a blowtorch (to heat and bend tubes), and a shop vac.

Went about as well as you can imagine, but still had a blast.