MIT(MI-Terminal)

A lightweight Xiaomi Home CLI & full-screen TUI for device control



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mit is a fast, zero-dependency Xiaomi Home CLI written in Rust. It lets you log in to your Xiaomi account, browse and control smart home devices from the terminal, and send push notifications — all without opening the app.

Disclaimer: This project is a community-maintained tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or part of Xiaomi.

Features

• Full-screen TUI — navigate accounts, rooms, and devices; read/write MIoT properties; invoke actions; all keyboard-driven
• Local-first LAN control — automatically discovers local IPs and tokens, probes reachability, and falls back to cloud seamlessly
• CLI props access — read/write device properties, trigger actions, and subscribe to live property changes without opening the TUI
• Push notifications — send messages to any logged-in Xiaomi account
• Multi-account — log in with multiple accounts across different regions
• JSON output — commands have a --json mode for scripting and automation

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Demo

Sending a push notification	Reading & writing device properties	TUI(mobile view)

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Install

One-liner (macOS / Linux):

curl -sSfL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ttys026/mit/main/install.sh | sh

The script detects your platform, downloads the latest pre-built binary, verifies the SHA-256 checksum, and installs to /usr/local/bin (or ~/.local/bin if that's not writable).

Build from source (requires Rust ≥ 1.75):

cargo install --git https://github.com/ttys026/mit.git --bin mit

Custom install directory:

INSTALL_DIR=~/.local/bin curl -sSfL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ttys026/mit/main/install.sh | sh

Supported platforms

Platform	x86_64	aarch64
Linux (musl)	✅	✅
Linux (glibc)	✅	✅
macOS	✅	✅
Windows	✅	✅

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Quick Start

# 1. Log in to your Xiaomi account
mit auth login
# 2. List your devices
mit devices list
# 3. Launch the full-screen TUI
mit tui

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Commands

# Root help
mit
mit --help
# ── Auth ───────────────────────────────────────────────────
mit auth login # Log in (opens browser)
mit auth login --region cn # Specify region
mit auth list # List saved accounts# ── TUI ────────────────────────────────────────────────────
mit tui # Launch full-screen dashboard
mit tui --uid 1234567 # Start with a specific account# ── Devices ────────────────────────────────────────────────
mit devices list # List devices for all accounts# ── Push notifications ─────────────────────────────────────
mit push "Hello World"# Push to all accounts
mit push --uid 1001 "Hello World"# Push to a specific account# ── MIoT properties & actions (no TUI required) ────────────
mit props get did-1 2 1 # Read property (siid=2, piid=1)
mit props set did-1 2 1 true# Write property
mit props act did-1 5 1 1 2 # Invoke action with parameters
mit props sub # Subscribe to all device property changes
mit props sub did-1 # Subscribe to all changes for one device
mit props sub did-1 2 1 # Subscribe to one property

Notes

• After browser login completes, mit auth login finalises auth automatically and shows a success page in the browser.
• mit props get/set/act/sub work directly without opening the TUI.
• mit props sub streams subscription logs and property updates to stdout until interrupted.
• mit tui syncs devices and caches MIoT specs under ~/.mit/cache/specs/.
• bare auth keeps compatibility with mit auth --help.
• bare devices keeps compatibility with mit devices --help.

TUI tabs

1. 1:Account — account list, login/logout, push message
2. 2:Devices — device list and property/action dialog
3. 3:Logs — runtime logs and status information
4. 4:Settings — cache cleanup (keep auth) and full reset (delete ~/.mit, double-confirmed)

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Local-First LAN Control

mit prefers talking to your devices over LAN (UDP/MIIO protocol) instead of going through Xiaomi's cloud:

1. On first sync, mit fetches each device's localip and token from Xiaomi cloud.
2. Credentials are persisted per account to ~/.mit/accounts/{account_id}/local_credentials.json.
3. mit probes reachability for each device in the background.

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JSON Output

Commands support machine-readable JSON output via the global --json flag:

mit --json # Help as JSON
mit --json auth list # Account list as JSON
mit --json devices list # Device list as JSON
mit --json push "hello"# Push result as JSON

• --json applies only to successful stdout. Parse errors and runtime errors are always printed as human-readable text on stderr.
• Streaming commands such as mit props sub print live text lines to stdout and do not support --json.
• This makes mit easy to use in scripts, CI pipelines, or any automation that needs structured output.

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Configuration

Environment variable	Description
MIT_PROFILE_DIR / MIT_HOME / XMCLI_HOME	Override the directory where ~/.mit data is stored
MIT_MIOT_SPEC_URL_BASE	Override the MIoT spec API base URL (useful for testing)
MIT_MICO_BASE_URL	Override the Mico API base URL (debug builds only)
MIT_LOG_DEVICE_LIST_PAGE_RAW	Set to any non-empty value to log raw device list API responses to stderr

Profile data is stored under ~/.mit/:

~/.mit/
├── auth.json # Saved account tokens
├── accounts/{uid}/
│ ├── devices.json # Cached device list for this account
│ └── local_credentials.json # Per-account LAN credentials
└── cache/
└── specs/
├── index.json # Model → URN mapping
├── models/ # Per-model MIoT spec JSON
└── sources/ # Cached MIoT API index files

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License

MIT