I see the post for forgotten. I don’t see real benefits of Automation 2.0 besides a lot of bugs 
Hello, I disagree with you. 2.0 offers many advantages, the main one being the reduction in the amount of automation. I used to use ~10 automations to control the temperature in the stove (the price of electricity in a three-zone tariff), now there are only two: “On” and “Off”.
The main problem for the user is to understand the algorithm of 2.0. I must disagree with you, automation 2.0 works GREAT.
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Absolute nonsense.
If you dive into the topic a little bit and start thinking logically, you’ll find that Aqara offers a tool unlike anything I’ve seen from any other manufacturer.
Maybe SmartHings offers something similar, but neither Google Home, Alexa, nor HomeKit have these capabilities or this power to create automations and rules.
With HomeKit, perhaps with an additional app like Eve or Controller for HomeKit.
But even then, you don’t have the option to schedule automations or things like “if the window is open after 5 minutes…”—in other words, to implement delays.
Or the fact that you can have text-to-speech notifications written to you, which are then uploaded to cameras and panels and used to receive notifications, or notifications on your phone, inside or outside the house/apartment.
With Apple, you need Apple Music for something like this, which requires an additional subscription. Notifications only work to a limited extent via additional apps with subscriptions.
All this with a user-friendly interface that doesn’t require a degree in rocket science you can find in the Aqara ecosystem.
I’m deliberately excluding Home Assistant because I think that comparison would be flawed.
Home Assistant requires a lot of additional hardware, and its user interface isn’t as easy for beginners to understand as Aqara’s. Of course, Home Assistant has improved significantly in recent years, but it’s still a bit complicated, similar to Aqara.
Name me one manufacturer that offers good hardware and a solid ecosystem that allows you to create even more complex automations and rules.
I don’t know of any, but I’m happy to be proven wrong.
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Homey Pro ??
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True but expensive in comparison but under the line you are correct 
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Love it! 
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I have one and I love it and the Advanced Flows but its not very reliable so I have been using Home Assistant for the past year.
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