Big news! Paulus Schoutsen (Founder & CEO) and Marcel van der Veldt (Ecosystems Lead) from Home Assistant came to visit us at Aqara HQ. We had a lot of good conversations about where both companies are headed, and we’re excited to explore future possibilities together.
We’ve agreed to deepen our collaboration going forward. This fits squarely with the direction Aqara has been moving toward a more open ecosystem with a stronger focus on the smart home DIY community: people who love building, exploring, and making their home work exactly the way they want it to.
We also discussed a bit on the future.
A big chunk of our chat was about what the agentic smart home might look like — not just a home that responds to your commands, but one that actually thinks and acts on your behalf. Projects like OpenClaw are an early example of this: autonomous agents that can coordinate across devices, understand context, and get things done without constant input from you. It’s a space we’re paying close attention to, and something we’ll be exploring together with Home Assistant.
It’s still early days for a lot of this, but we’re excited about the direction - and we hope you are too.
Exciting news! Looking forward to see what the collaboration brings in the future
With the hype of openclaw, ai agents got more attention and the users could benefit of it when used with smart homes!
Wow , that’s awesome! I like this direction and hope also that the future Aqara hubs can run a separate docker with Home Assistant on it!
I’m really looking forward to this cooperation
Nice to see the Home Assistant crew dropping by. Love the energy here—couple of thoughts: I hope we keep pushing for smooth, local-first automations that just work, no fuss. Excited to see how Aqara and Home Assistant can make smart homes feel a bit more magical for everyday users.
I don’t want to have to run home assistant to have new features in your products. It is very tempting to be open because then you can have developers implement feature for free and you only need to build hardware.
I wish one day there will be 1 single device that has it all → Zigbee/Wifi/Matter hub and coordinator, Home assistant running inside, 3rd party devices compatibility.
Paulus Schoutsen (Founder & CEO) and Marcel van der Veldt (Ecosystems Lead) from Home Assistant came to visit us at Aqara HQ. We had a lot of good conversations about where both companies are headed, and we’re excited to explore future possibilities together.
