Hey all, just wanted to share a few integration tricks I’ve been playing with lately using the new Aqara M3 Hub — this thing’s way more flexible than I expected.
So I’m a bit of a smarthome enthusiast (read: tinkerer who can’t leave things alone), and I’ve been pushing the M3 to its limits with some cross-platform setups. The biggest win for me was bridging it with Home Assistant via Matter and still keeping the local Zigbee network intact. That alone opened a ton of doors for custom automations I didn’t think were possible before.
One of my favorite setups: I have a motion sensor in the hallway (paired to the M3), but I used HA to trigger both a LIFX light fade-in AND a shortcut on my iPhone that reads out the day’s weather if it detects me before 7am. It’s like having my own smart butler, no joke.
Also, random tip I stumbled into: if you use the M3 as a Matter bridge, but still keep some Aqara devices paired directly to your older hubs, you can have multiple “zones” of automation that don’t interfere with each other. Kinda like load-balancing your smarts.
Anyone else playing around with some less obvious workflows using the M3? Or is there a hidden feature I’ve missed? Drop your weirdest or most clever integration — I’m all ears.