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

Questions & Help
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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.

3

Just wait until the newest devices are supported by the app

4

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

5

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.

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Im planning to do the same :slight_smile: Some questions:

Have you installed this already? Is it working? What Aqara Hub are you using?

8

It looks like no one answered :frowning:

Ive had so many stability issues with my Homey pro 2026 so I bought an AQARA M3 HUB and hoping that I can set that up so it’s more reliable but then connect that to my Homey pro so I can do all the flows. Have you had any success in getting yours to all work?

any insight would be appreciated

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I ended up not using the hub.

I use the eu h2 switches and the work perfect without the aqara hub. I Can use all the buttons. Only thing I cannot do is use double clicks

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Ah ok. Thank for letting me know. I think I’m going to factory reset my honey Pro 2026 which is a nightmare and start again but going to set up an AQARA M3 hub for reliability and connect the hub to HP. … in theory but no idea! Ha ha ha