Aqara Cube T1 Pro, REQUIRES AQARA ZIGBEE 3.0 HUB, 6 Sides to Control Different Scenes and Diverse Actions to Control Smart Home Devices, Supports Homekit, Alexa and IFTTT

I love this product! I have been using this for last four months. While I couldn’t use its full functionality since I connected it through HomeAssistant and I had to purchase the Aqara hub separately, this little gadget is so impressive that I still had to give it 5 stars. Every time guests see it for the first time, they are just so amazed. However, if you’re new to home automation, it might not be the easiest to set up. It took me some time to figure things out and I am new to HomeAssistant.Speed to turn on and off: 4/5Battery Life: 5/5Accuracy: 3/5Ease of Installation: 2/5Once everything is set up, the combination of its price, functionality, and the “wow” factor it brings to guests makes it a solid 5/5. Highly recommend it for smart home enthusiasts!

Great gadget. Using it with Alexa to fire off routines.Easy to setup. App is easy to use.Not all of the functionality is available unless you are deep into the Aqara ecosystem. I am not so I can only use half of the functionality.Requires a Aqara hub.Reasonably priced for all of the things it can do.

I really like it, it works great. And you can add it to Home Assistant via the Zigbee2MQTT integration so you can control non-Aqara devices and automations with it. But it's awkward. No lights or anything tactile so you can't see/feel what side you're turning to. You have to pick it up, look at it, roll it to the preferred side up, then put it down. Makes it hard to use it to turn your light on if you're in the dark and can't see which side to face up. LOL. I find the Aqara button MUCH easier to use. I love them.

First, I wish they had grey and black. The white gets dirty too quickly, well, looks dirty. Actually, it would be great if they made many colors (red, yellow, pink, brown, black, grey, bright white, green, orange, lavender, etc.).Second, once you move them around enough, they start getting disconnected and stop responding. I've replaced the battery, reset them, and they are within ten feet of the Zigbee coordinator. I am using Home Assistant with Zigbee2MQTT. It appears as if the battery is not staying connected. Sometimes when I reset the battery, it works for a bit then stops working. I do not know if it is the battery not being secured or if it is a connection issue.This only happens on one cube. The other cube works fine. I just have two. I really like these things and would buy more. I hope for more color choices, better security of battery, and more stable connectivity.UPDATE 2023-05-24: Aqara immediately contacted me. They were very responsive with constant replies. I appreciate this. Eventually they offered a refund, and I declined it. I will keep the two cubes as they are. As far as the Aqara door sensors and buttons are concerned, they are awesome and have not had an issue with them at all. I like the door sensors and buttons better than other competitors. I said to them, instead of refund, how about future Cube Pro 3 with assorted color choices. I would definitely buy those. Aqara customer service is high bar. I increased my score from two stars to five stars just for the customer service I received.UPDATE 2025-04-14: This is about the tenth time having to repair these devices. I loved it while it worked, but when it loses connection with my Zigbee hub, having to pop the cover, repair it, I just decided to remove them from my network. I use Home Assistant, with SMLIGHT SLZB6 Zigbee hub, Zigbee2MQTT. Everything is up to date. I hope they come out of T2 Pro, maybe with improved connectivity and maybe some more features. I love these cubes, but I am tired of having to repair them every other month. I am done with them until someone else or they come out with a new version.

Fun, unusual control system. I'm still figuring out if it has a place alongside serious conventional switches or if it's more of a novelty, but if you're a smart home fan you'll likely enjoy seeing what you can do with it.

This is not a good product, and a stain on Aqara's otherwise great status in my book. I use Aqara's temperature, moisture, contact, motion, and vibration sensors--and find them reliable--throughout my home. But this product just does whatever it wants and does not respond in the way that the product description suggests it will respond. It's not even reliable enough to be a party trick. I'm returning it and if you're disappointed after reading this review and ordering the product anyway, you heard it here first.

I had this for a while before I found an actual good use case. We like to mute the tv during commercials, and rather than grabbing the remote and finding the mute button, we just simply flip the cube to any side to mute & unmute the TV. I don't have specific sides programmed, just if a side changes.I'm using:- Home Assistant- zigbee2mqtt for connectivity to this cube- One automation watching for a "side" state change- Sony Bravia TV with the related integration so HA can mute & unmute itI also added some soft pads on every side so when we flip it there is minimal noise when it lands on the table.

It's pretty intuitive to program what the actions do.