I can see the presence sensor and my Aqara camera in the Aqara app, but don’t seem to be able to access it or automate it from HA. I also have Apple HomeKit environament - what is best approach to have it both in HA and HomeKit, and also hopefully to be used by Alexa
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The trick to this and all other Aqara devices that I use has been to add them to HomeKit first. The will now appear in Apple home. Next, delete the device from Apple home. It remains registered with HomeKit and will immediately be recognized by Home Assistant. You then add it in the normal way.
Note : you cannot (easily) use FP2 in both Apple Home and Home Assistant. If you use bridges, beware of creating cycles between Home and Home Assistant with devices forwarding back and forth. You can run into lots of problems including runaway network saturation and running out of memory
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Thank you - will give that a try
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