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    Mi Home devices, experiences and fails...

    I guess that if you switch to Mainland China, it will work.
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    Mi Home devices, experiences and fails...

    The app itself has a setting for steaming veggies. I just fill the pot with water up to the mark numbered "2", put the veggies in the plastic bowl and press the corresponding button in the app. It takes half an hour and the veggies are nicely steamed. As for the quinoa, I measure water quantity...
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    Mi Home devices, experiences and fails...

    That's what I thought (about the Chinese language) and didn't bother. It works fine without the rice identification. I use it for basmati, jasmine and less often other types of rice as well as quinoa without any problem. I also steam veggies...
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    Mi Home devices, experiences and fails...

    I haven't found a way, unfortunately. If you only have the one device, you are not obliged to set Mainland China as your region, because I think the rice cooker can operate in Europe, too (maybe in the US, who knows)... Xiaomi exports it to Europe through their official importers.
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    Link Fire Detector to Intrusion Detection?

    I know, but I thought that as he is mentioning that for the moment "the gateway is just playing a quiet alarm" if he adjusted the volume of the alarm on the gateway, it might help him... the idea is to be notified when an intruder enters your space, ain't it ?
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    Mi Home devices, experiences and fails...

    Hi there, in the last few months I have bought and installed various Mi Home connected devices in my house... Most of them work flawlessly, but with some of them I have encountered a few issues... I will try to write about them here. First of all here are the devices I have now: Air quality...
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    Link Fire Detector to Intrusion Detection?

    You can adjust the alarm volume of the gateway from the MiHome app... you can also choose a different tune for this alarm... so it can become quite audible.
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    Mi A1 call quality issues due to poor reception

    I have bought a new Mi A1 for my wife one month ago (64GB version) from a Chinese online retailer. The phone is great, we love the pure Android experience (had MotoG's in the past, I use a Nexus now) and most of the functions are really nice (good battery, fast processor, good WiFi connection...