How are people finding HA with aqara?
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I’m using it bringing some devices in via my M3 and some newer devices through matter. I find my connection to be reliable and haven’t had issues creating automations. Triggering automations using Aqara sensors to devices from other brands such as the Apollo Automation M1 wled panel happen instantly.
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I‘m new in using HA … just a beginner there ! Main reason is to control my solar battery more smarter
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I’ve been using it for a couple of years but I still consider myself a beginner.
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Haha , got ya! So I just heard about HA 
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I use it extensively, but then I have everything going directly into HA and not through an Aqara hub. The G400 doorbell might have to be an exception though unless I can figure out a way to get more controls into HA natively.
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I’m mainly using zigbee devices. I find the aqara behaves well in general. I love the way HA can deal with so many different brands so that things you already have don’t become obsolete.
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I don;t use an aqara hub either. Just a zigbee adaptor.
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I think it works well with Matter devices, it lacks some features though, I think limited by current Matter capabilities
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I use Home Assistant exclusively. Aqara devices work really well with it. The main limitation is that some devices offer less functionality when you integrate them via Matter
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I use Home Assistant (OS) with a Sonoff dongle, exclusively with Zigbee 3.0 (I don’t use Matter because there are fewer features available on the devices 
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I have the following Aqara devices: 10 door/window sensors, a thermostat, and 2 smoke detectors, and everything works perfectly 
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I have been using Home assistant and Aqara for years now. always worked great with my Zigbee dongle and since a short while been using ChatGPT to write automations for me. so still a beginner with code but feeling pro 
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Any progress on home assistant support for the g400? It’s a great camera but I’m really missing home assistant integration. I know it can be done through Homebridge, but it’s limited and then I can’t link my camera to HomeKit.
I’m considering returning the g400 and getting a reolink instead… but they are expensive and don’t have great HomeKit support.
I’m Here. Home Assistant on the mini PC is the brain, and my Aqara Hub M3 is its muscles.
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To help explain my request for a native integration: Aqara has a few ways to integrate with Home Assistant, but not natively.
The options I’ve tried are:
- Link G400 to HomeKit and then RTSP Stream to HA
a. G400 Doorbell Home Assistant Dashboard Video Feed
b. Works, but HA sees only the video - Link G400 to HA through the HomeKit integration and then use Homekit Bridge in HA to link to HomeKit
a. Same limited number of entities in HA. Also loses a bunch of HomeKit features (face detection, Apple’s streaming services etc.) - Link G400 to HA through the HomeKit integration and then use Scrypted to push to HomeKit
a. Seems to be the most feature-rich option, but HA video can be laggy, and only gets motion and door press passed on.
There is a community integration for Aqara doorbells, but it doesn’t list the G400 and I’m not sure what entities it passes on anyways:
Compare that to Reolink’s HA integration which has tons of entities that show up natively:
