Adding an Aqara hub for more features, but keeping automations in Homey?

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I’m planning on doing a big jump in my lighting situation the coming months and changing out all my (dumb) light switches. I have quite a few Aqara products already and have been very happy so far, but some of the newest switches(Display Switch and Light Switch H2 specifically) are not supported (or have limited support) directly in Homey.

I have read a bit and I understand that if I add a separate Aqara Hub I will also be making a separate Zigbee network and that I need to be aware of potential range issues. Are there other limitations I should be aware of? I do not mind the cost of the extra hub itself.

Another question. I would still like to control all automations etc in Homey. Would that still work? Ideally the Aqara Hub would just be to set up the Switch, but pressing the button would trigger Homey flows?

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The Aqara hub can’t be added to Homey, so any devices added to that won’t be available, unless you can add them via Mater.

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Just wait until the newest devices are supported by the app

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I think both the switches I have support being added over Matter

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Yes.
When you’ve added Aqara hub connected devices as Matter devices to Homey, they act as if it were Homey connected devices.

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When I asked Aqara they said they were not planning to add support for it.