Which hub should own which device when you run Aqara next to Apple Home, SmartThings and Google?

I have reached the point where my setup works, but I no longer trust it, and I would like to hear how others have solved this.

My situation: Aqara hub with sensors and a lock, bridged out over Matter. Apple Home is my main interface. SmartThings is still in the picture from earlier, and Google is there because of Nest. Hue and tado sit alongside it, and Ring stays in its own corner because it has to.

The problem is not that things break. It is that I cannot always tell where a decision is being made. A light turns on and I have to think for a moment about whether that was an Aqara automation, an Apple Home automation, or a Hue scene reacting to something else. When something goes wrong at 23:00 I do not want to debug three systems.

Two things I am unsure about.

First, should automation logic live on the Aqara hub or in the platform I bridge to? Keeping it on the hub means it keeps running when the rest is down, but then my logic is split across two places, which is exactly the problem I am trying to avoid.

Second, does anyone actually gain something from keeping SmartThings in the mix once everything speaks Matter, or is that just history I should clean up?

So my question to you: where do you draw the line? One platform for everything and accept the compromises, or hub-local automations for anything critical and the platform only for scenes and voice? Interested in what people run in practice, not the theory.

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Hello

I am using Home assistant running on a Raspberry PI with a Sonoff Zigbee USB connected to the Raspberry to control everything in my home, through Zigbee and WiFi.

I have everything working without problems.

Best regards

I use Homey, for all the automations, although I use differing systems for bringing the information into Homey. I used to have Hue run some automations, but as OP has found out having automations in multiple systems can cause confusion.

Hello

I use Aqara hub to connect matter and zigbee devices from Aqara to Apple TV

Then a sonoff hub to connect zigbee devices from sonoff to Apple TV as well

It works well and flawlessly