Aqara launches three touchscreen good dwelling management panel

I’m an enormous fan of other ways to manage your good dwelling outdoors of utilizing your cellphone or counting on voice, so I used to be very excited to see that Aqara is launching three touchscreen controllers on the CES tech present in Las Vegas this week — and one has a wheel!

The brand new Panel Hub S1 Plus, Touchscreen Dial V1, and Touchscreen Change S100 might be put in rather than an everyday gentle swap. They’ll management the present circuit and wirelessly handle gadgets related to the panel by way of the Aqara good dwelling app. This allows you to — and anybody in your house — use contact to regulate lights, thermostats, blinds, and extra with no need a cellphone or realizing the precise voice command. The Panel and the Change may management Matter gadgets, exposing six wi-fi buttons to Matter.

Aqara can be launching new non-touchscreen good switches that may join over Thread or Zigbee. The Aqara Gentle Change H2 and Dimmer Change H2 are available a number of swap configurations and don’t require a impartial wire. The Gentle Change H2 may management Aqara’s wired good lighting merchandise, resembling its T1M ceiling gentle, providing you with an choice for bodily management that doesn’t lower off the gadget’s good options. They’re slated for launch in Q1 2025.

I first noticed a number of of those merchandise showcased at the IFA tech present in Berlin, Germany, final 12 months, and now Aqara is debuting US variations. The Panel Hub works over dual-band Wi-Fi, has a 6.9-inch touchscreen with a 1440 × 720 decision, and might be put in in an everyday gentle swap outlet. It may join to 2 lights on a wired circuit to automate them, together with Aqara good lights such because the T1M ceiling gentle.

The customizable show can present a number of widgets to manage gadgets related to an Aqara good dwelling, resembling lights, locks, thermostats, and curtains, in addition to set off scenes and routines. It may additionally act as a show for viewing dwell digital camera feeds from an Aqara digital camera and as a video intercom for an Aqara doorbell — resembling the brand new G410 Aqara Doorbell that’s additionally launching at CES.

A proximity sensor can flip off the display when it’s not in use, and you may add photographs and customized wallpapers. The Panel Hub additionally doubles as a Zigbee hub for connecting the corporate’s Zigbee equipment like sensors and locks and may bridge these gadgets into Matter.

The Touchscreen Dial V1 is a compact tactile rotary dial that appears and feels a bit like a mini Nest thermostat with a 1.32-inch touchscreen inside. I bought to play with the European model at IFA, and it was simple to swipe by way of the touchscreen to decide on a tool to manage after which flip the dial for fine-tuned changes, resembling dimming lights, adjusting a thermostat, or opening or closing curtains or shades. In contrast to the Panel and Touchscreen Change, the Dial is just not Matter-compatible.

The Dial V1 might be wired to an current gentle fixture. It has a temperature and humidity sensor and a presence sensor for display activation. The Dial V1 and the Panel Hub will launch in Europe later this month and within the US later this 12 months.

Lastly, the Touchscreen Change S100 US combines the bodily and digital in a single gadget. A wise swap with two bodily buttons and a 1.3-inch touchscreen, the S100 can management an current gentle fixture and wirelessly management good gadgets and scenes.

Just like the touchscreen on the Dial V1, you need to use the touchscreen to dim lights or regulate a thermostat. In contrast to the opposite two touchscreen gadgets, the S100 contains Thread in addition to Wi-Fi and may work as a Thread border router and thru Matter over Wi-Fi. Aqara hasn’t supplied a launch date for the Change.

If switches aren’t your factor, Aqara is launching a brand new good sensor that may management your lights routinely. The battery-operated Presence Multi-Sensor FP300 packs 5 sensors: PRI, mmWave, gentle, temperature, and humidity.

A follow-up to Aqara’s wired mmWave-powered presence sensors, the FP2 and FP1E, the FP300’s mmWave sensing can detect presence in a room with precision all the way down to somebody’s chest rising and falling after they breathe. This could guarantee your lights by no means flip off if you’re quietly working in your laptop computer or studying a e book.

One of many first wi-fi mmWave sensors, the FP300 can function on two CR2450 batteries for as much as two years over Thread and three years utilizing Zigbee and a connection to an Aqara hub, in keeping with the corporate. (You may choose your protocol.)

The corporate additionally introduced an up to date local weather sensor. The Local weather Sensor W100 has the choice of Thread or Zigbee and options an built-in show that may present room temperature, humidity, and extra. Three wi-fi buttons might be programmed to manage any related good gadget, together with a thermostat.

Lastly, Aqara is including a brand new entry-level good dwelling hub, the Hub M100. The small gadget contains Wi-Fi, Thread, and Zigbee to allow connections for all of Aqara’s good gadgets in addition to third-party Matter gadgets. It may act as a Thread border router and a Matter bridge for Aqara Zigbee gadgets.