Do You Need an Electrician to Install Aqara?

• U200 keypad, wired: 'A compatible transformer should be installed by a professional electrician'
• Single Switch Module T1: 'You will need a professional and qualified electrician to install this switch module'
• Dual Relay Module T2: meant for people familiar with electrical installation, with a professional electrician suggested for everyone else
• Light Switch H2: its wiring-error FAQ says to consult a professional electrician for installation
• Shutter Switch H2: Aqara suggests your motor installer or an electrician to set the motor's end positions

• A new circuit from the consumer unit
• Replacing the consumer unit
• An addition or alteration in a special location: the space around a bath or shower, from the floor to 2.25 m (or the shower head, if higher) and 0.6 m out from the edge of the bath or tray (1.2 m from the shower head where there is no tray), or a room with a swimming pool or sauna heater

• Nothing wired: the U200, U200 Lite, U600 and U500 locks, the W600 radiator thermostat, the curtain and roller-shade drivers, battery sensors and the Smoke Detector
• A plug or USB lead: the hubs, the Presence Sensor FP2, indoor cameras and the Power Plug H2 UK
• Extra-low voltage: doorbells on bell wire, a wired U200 keypad at 12–24 V, and PoE doorbells, cameras and hubs
• The 230 V side: wall switches, relays, a new bell transformer, a floor-heating thermostat and Aqara's mains roller-blind motors

• Replacing a light switch with an H1, H2 or Dimmer H2, including a deeper back box or a neutral run down from the ceiling rose
• Adding a T1 or T2 relay to an existing lighting circuit, in the switch box where it is deep enough or in an accessible enclosure near the light, never sealed into a ceiling
• A bell transformer swapped like-for-like, or a new one fed from a fused spur
• A fused spur from an existing circuit for Aqara's 230 V roller-blind motors, the Roller Shade Controller T1S and the Smart Roller Shade Controller
• Replacing an existing floor-heating thermostat with a W500, outside a bathroom

• A new circuit, such as a supply for floor heating where no existing circuit will do, or a transformer on its own new consumer-unit way: a registered electrician
• A relay on the DIN rail inside the consumer unit: JACK does not put devices inside the consumer unit
• Fixed electrical work inside a bathroom's zones, including a W500 thermostat fitted in a bathroom: JACK's own rule, and additions or alterations in the zones are notifiable anyway
• A T2's dry contact wired at the boiler, which Aqara's UK shop suggests for boilers that accept dry-contact control: JACK sends any wiring at the boiler itself to a Gas Safe registered engineer
• The Valve Controller T1 on a gas valve: JACK fits it to water valves only

• The Aqara devices, and what each one will control
• The switch, transformer or thermostat being replaced, and the consumer unit with its cover shut
• For anything near a bathroom or the boiler, a wider photo showing where it is
• In a flat or a rental, the managing agent's or landlord's go-ahead

A vetted pro prices your Aqara job from the models and your photos, and the JACK app shows that fixed price before you book.

What the job touches moves the price more than the device does. Pairing a hub, fixing sensors, clipping a Curtain Driver E1 onto a rail or fitting radiator thermostat heads is set-up work. A smart lock is locksmith work on the door. An H1 or H2 switch, a Dual Relay Module T2 or a 230 V blind motor is mains work on an existing circuit, priced for isolating, connecting and testing.

The home comes next: a multipoint door that needs adjusting before a lock goes on, a bell transformer too weak for the doorbell, a PoE cable through solid brick. Where a job needs a second pair of hands, your pro can ask another pro on JACK to help through the Pro2Pro feature. Several devices, Aqara or other brands, go on one booking for one fixed price.

You buy the Aqara products; JACK does not sell them. Accessories the job needs, such as a replacement cylinder, a deeper back box, a 12 V plug-in supply or a PoE injector, are agreed and added at cost before you book, and so is parking where it has to be paid for. Prefer to pay for time? As a guide, hourly hire is typically £45–£95 per hour for smart home work, £55–£110 for electrical work and £60–£130 for locksmith work, and a full-day handyman booking is a flat £350–£400 for up to 8 hours on site.