Hey ,
Share a bit about my current project—been diving deep into integrating Aqara gear with my broader home automation setup, and honestly, it’s been surprisingly smooth (for the most part).
I’m running everything through a Home Assistant instance on a Pi 4, and the Aqara M3 Hub is playing nicely with both Zigbee and Matter devices. Got a bunch of Aqara sensors (motion, contact, temp & humidity) and a few wireless switches feeding data into automations, and it’s wild how responsive things are with proper MQTT config and a couple of Node-RED flows.
The game-changer for me was realizing you could pull real-time sensor data and run it through custom scripts to trigger crazy-specific behaviors. Like, motion in the hallway + lux below 40 = soft lighting, only if I’m home and TV is off. It feels like hacking real-world logic.
Also started messing with the REST API side of things, and if anyone’s curious, there’s a workaround to link Aqara scenes into other services like Tuya or even IFTTT with some webhook trickery.
Would love to hear from other devs tinkering with Aqara setups. Anyone tried bridging it with openHAB or integrating directly with Google’s Local Home SDK? Let’s nerd out.
Cheers!
The way you’re leveraging real-time sensor data with custom scripts and MQTT/Node-RED is seriously impressive. It’s exactly the kind of tinkering that makes smart home setups feel truly “smart.”
