Xiaomi iHealth Blood Pressure Docking Station

Xiaomi unveils a smartphone dock that takes your blood pressure and other health readings
Xiaomi had launched its first ever healthcare product, a smart blood pressure monitor. The blood pressure cuff, and accompanying phone dock was made in partnership with US-based iHealth Labs.

Xiaomi promises the blood pressure monitor will be easy to use and meets all the necessary professional medical standards and certifications. A customized App for Xiaomi, tracks blood pressure, heart rate, average pulse and more on a real-time chart, then make recommendations for improvement.

Xiaomi said the blood pressure monitor can be used on other Android devices, but it is best suited for Xiaomi smartphones.  

Xiaomi Ventures had announced a US$25 million investment into iHealth Labs. iHealth, while a officially a Silicon Valley-based company, is actually a spin off of China-based Andon Health. iHealth Labs makes a full suite of home healthcare products, such as wireless scales, fitness devices, and glucometers.

The dock is accompanied by an app. Together they track blood pressure (including systolic and diastolic blood pressure) and heart rate. The doc includes an attached pad which is simply attached to a person’s arm, as happens in a hospital, to get things going.

The app is then used to operate the device.  Xiaomi says that the dock is easy to use, perhaps making it ideal for older customers, while the results can be shared with others, such as friends, family or doctors.

Like other Xiaomi devices, this seems like a China-only initiative, for now at least, currently the App interface is only available in Mandarin.

iHealth Labs, which is a US venture run China-based Andon Health, is focused on health and fitness products, as the name suggests. Xiaomi stepped into this segment when it launched a fitness band, and its involvement in iHealth Labs means we are likely to see it make more moves in this space in the future.

iHealth Blood Pressure Monitor intelligent cloud is very simple to use. Users merely download the iHealth App to their Xiaomi phone, plug the phone to the supplied dock and the App will automatically open. Put on the cuff, tap on "Start measurement", sit back, relax and the blood pressure measurement will be measured.

In addition, the product also offers cloud synchronization. As long as the phone is connected to the network, the measurement results will automatically sync to the cloud. The results can also be shared with family and friends.

Unbox iHealth
Check the unboxing photos and witness the premium quality of the iHealth product that comes with a non premium price tag.

The Docking Station

Close up of docking port.

What's in the box?

Mi 4 docked to docking station.

Another view of the dock

Top / side / back and bottom view of the docking station.

The iHealth connected to the various components.

Currently App interface is only in Mandarin

完美适配红米系列手机

适配：红米 / 红米 1S / 红米 1S 4G / 红米 Note / 红米 Note 增强版 / 红米 Note 4G                     

基本参数

• 产品名称电子血压计（智能臂式）
• 型号电子血压计由便携式主机和袖带组成
• 结构DC 5V
• 机器尺寸115mm*115mm*66.5mm
• 袖带范围22cm-30cm，30cm-42cm
• 机器重量约220g（不含袖带）
• 量程血压计量程为0kPa~40kPa（0mmHg~300mmHg）
• 分辨率显示分辨率为0.133kPa（1mmHg）
• 压力传感器准确性量程中任何测量点上，袖带压力测量的最大误差为±0.4kPa（±3mmHg）
• 脉率测量范围40次/min~180次/min
• 脉率示值误差脉率值>60(含60)时：±5%
  脉率值<60(含60)时：±3次/min

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Xiaomi's MiWiFi Router - Setting Up guide

After power on

a) After booting up, you should see two default WiFI available Xiaomi-xxxx & Xiaomi_xxxx_5G, set your PC's WiFi to "Obtain an IP automatically"

b) Go to WiFi setting and search for Xiaomi_XXXX or Xiaomi_XXXX_5G, there is no password enabled, so you can connect it freely.

c) Connect to one of the two WiFi access point mentioned above;

d) On your browser key in the default router ip 192.168.31.1 or miwifi.com, which should bring you to the router management console; you would be getting the following welcome screen

e) MiWiFi will be able to detect whether you are connected

f) Once connected, you will be asked to key in the SSID name, if you wish to change the default SSID, follow by SSID password, and the MiWiFi console management password.

g) If you are changing your SSID for both 2.4G or 5G, or the subnet from 196.168.x.x to others like 172.168.x.x, every changes will require a reboot of router, after which you'll need to connect to the new SSID, and finally log-in to the MiWiFi management console

Connecting to the Internet
Once you had made configuration changes to Miwifi, you can connect the WAN port of MiWiFi (The lowest port on the router) to the LAN port of your switch, which should be connect through your normal Internet connectivity in you office/home

Make sure both your MiwiFi IP is on the same subnet as your home internet subnet, e.g. if your MiWifi subnet is 192.168.31.1, then your existing network at home/office must be 192.168.x.x

(e.g Your existing WAN/modem gateway is 192.168.1.1, and your network is running in DHCP, if you connect your MiWiFi with 192.168.31.1 as router gateway, all devices connected to the MiWiFi should be assigned 192.168.31.x as IP, if you have DHCP running on MiWiFi)

Setting Up and link to Xiaomi Account

Once you have linked up your Mi Account, you can open brower and type www.miwifi.com, it will redirect you to user log in page, and the UI is the same.

Setting up Mobile Apps for the MiWiFi

You need to download Mi Router app from Mi Market or http://www1.miwifi.com/miwifi_download.html. Once ready you can launch the app,

Download App

 Android Version

http://bigota.miwifi.com/xiaoqiang/client/xqapp.apk

IOS Version       

https://itunes.apple.com/cn/app/id859962702?mt=8&ls=1

Upgrade Firmware

If you are purchasing a new WiFi, you'll likely be getting one shipped with an older version firmware.
Take a look at your router firmware, if they are older than ROM 稳定版 0.7.61, you can download the latest version at - http://www1.miwifi.com/miwifi_download.html

Direct link for Ver 0.7.61 is - http://bigota.miwifi.com/xiaoqiang/rom/brcm4709_hdk_4ea3c_0.7.61b.bin

Here's how to upgrade the ROM
http://bbs.xiaomi.cn/thread-10159544-1-1.html

English Translation of Web-based MiWiFi Management Console
Here's an English translation of the web-based MiWiFi management console, done by Kiswum, please note that some of features may varied as after newer firmware upgrades.

Xiaomi MiWiFi Setup - English Translation

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Xiaomi MiWiFi - More in-depth usage

Note - MiWiFi only comes in Chinese Interface

MiWiFi
Having more than 200 3D movies, 4K titles and lots of music albums, what's the best way to organise your content?

Apart from accessing all contents through online apps or stream services, the other major source of you contents (videos, music and photos) is from your locally stored devices, either a NAS or you IP devices.

You can use both to manage your MiWiFi AC router through a web-interfaced site www.miwifi.com, or through a mobile App (both IOS and Android versions are available). However, both version requires you to log-in with a Xiaomi account (yes, the same one that you use to purchase your Xiaomi Phones or Mi-Tab).

On the mobile app, once you had authorised access for a particular MiWiFi with your Xiaomi account, you can manage your MiWiFi AC router anywhere, as long as you have Internet access.

Managing Through Apps
Once you had authorised your mobile Apps to manage a particular MiWiFi, by logging in through your Xiaomi Account, you can access the MiWiFi directly through the App.

From here, you can view the status of a particular MiWiFi, eith at home or from office. You can browse traffics, which devices is currently connected to the MiWiFi, what speed are they accessing, and what bandwidth individual connection had consumed.

If you are downloading on the MiWiFi, you can also be alerted on completion of downloads.

You can also browse the contents of your MiWiFi, if you allow access to any devices connected to it, after which they can stream content from their devices.

Managing Downloads

The mobile apps has built-in third-party plug-ins where you can activate, and to manage your downloads, currently there are 4 Thunder plug-ins, all require a Thunder account to log-in and manage your movies, TV series onto the 1 TB storage on MiWiFi, if you are TVB fans, you can browse newly released episodes of your TV dramas, and start the download session, while at work; and at the end of the day when you reach home, these contents are already on you MiWiFi, nicely cataloged on your MiWiFi, ready to be playback on your MiTV.

Xiaomi Smart Homes
Xiaomi had just launched their Smart Home series of product, based on "The Internet of Things" design, where you will be able to manage air-con, TV, lights at home, customised to your living habits and lifestyles, all will be managed through the MiWiFi and mobile Apps.

Read this article "After success with phones, Xiaomi now wants to make your home smarter", some products had just been made available for immediate integration.

MiWiFi With MiTV 2
But we will not be looking into these future features of the MiWiFi AC router, we will focus on the tight integration of MiWiFi with the MiTV 2.

Once your MiWiFi was set-up, you can connect your MiTV 2 directly through with 2.4GHz or 5GHz WiFi, since MiWiFi is a dual-band AC router, with 2 separate antenna

Once connected, you can immediately see the MiWiFi icon on the landing page of MiTV, as MiWiFi came with an internal 1TB Harddisk storage, it will shows 1TB storage is available, and how much disk space had been used.

Smart Device featuring OpenWRT

As mention in my last post - Xiaomi MI WiFi Wireless AC Router, the Wireless Router has user programmable smart rules for handling and controlling all the home appliances easily. The device will be featuring OpenWRT-based Operating system with updates rolling out weekly for it. The device has an open plug architecture and SDK so we can expect its developers to come out with many new use cases.

A newly formatted MiWiFi with 1 TB HD will have standard video, music, doc and photo folders already created.

Your Movies

You can transfer your contents by enabling copy access for your device, through the Control console, after which you can copy your content over, through Samba.

Similar to Apple TV, once your movies (3D, HD or 4K) had been copied over, MiWiFi will start indexing all your movies, automatically download metadata and cover art from Xiaomi's services, including movie posters, titles and tagged with each movie. Unfortunately, all these tagging are with Chinese cover arts and movie titles.

Special Note - MiWiFi not only index contents (video, photo & music) from the in-built 1 TB HD, it will also crawl the whole network where it is connected to, and scan through all shared folders and directories on your network and indexed to be made available for playback. Make sure you do not have naked photos or videos shares on your PCs ;) 

Watching Movies

MiWiFi basically keep track of everything, it can also remember where you last pause your movie, and can resume from where you last watch.

Your Music

Similar to movies, MiWiFi's once you had copied your music albums onto the MiWiFi, the OpenWRT-based software will start crawling all tracks, and built all the necessary taggings associated with the tracks. Album cover arts will be tagged, together with song titles, writers etc.

On top of that, if lyrics are available from Xiaomi's own base, they will also be intelligently displayed alongside the music tracks. While not all tracks are available, we noticed most of the popular tracks were tagged.

Your Photos

We have not explored much with the Photo features, but we understand that photos can be synced from photo albums on a Xiaomi Phone, to a Xiaomi Account, and if the MITV 2 is configured to be log-in with the same Xiaomi Account, all photos will be make available on MiWiFi.

Mi-Cloud photo sharing

Photos taken on Xiaomi's Phone are automatically backup onto Mi-Cloud, and you can select who you want to share the photo, e.g. parents, and these photos will later be sync to the photo folders on MiWiFi, your parents can then browse through these Photos on the MiTV, if the MITV was logged in using their own Xiaomi Account.

This guy had provided step-by-step configurations on sharing it on MiTV

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