Can someone help me connect an Aqara product to my Homey Pro after installing it in the Aqara app? I have an Aqara hub, which I’ve already installed on my Homey Pro. Now I can see everything on that Aqara hub on my Homey Pro (I installed the Aqara hub via matter code). But now I have a problem and…

[image] EdNL: and that aqara set it to Homey It depends. You can connect them via ZigBee directly, but then you don’t get firmware updates and some other features might be missing.

So the 2 FP1E devices that I added to the M3 hub did eventually show up on the Homey device page. They defaulted to the room/zone where the M3 hub was located within Homey. They also had different icons that the FP1E devices that originally ported over from the M3, which is likely why I missed them …

[image] Dale_Poloway: knowing that I would lose firmware update capability Not irreversible: when you want to update OTA, just pair them to the Aqara Hub again, perform update and then pair them to Homey again. Note: updating OTA functionality with Homey is on it’s way: [image] ZigBee OTA…

It is good to note however that Aqara is one of the few partners which isn’t open to share their OTA files. So I can’t promise that functionality will work with Aqara devices.

Oké, so we can only use Aqara with Homey and not first with Aqara hub and then with the Homey? we can use Aqara device and hub with HomeKit (home Apple) but not with Homey? We can only use a Aqara device with homey alone.

[image] EdNL: we can use Aqara device and hub with HomeKit (home Apple) but not with Homey? I forgot about HomeKit, and yes, it might be possible with this app [image] HomeKit Controller | Homey Homekit Controller for a better Homey

[image] Doekse: So I can promise that functionality will work with Aqara devices. I assume you mean ‘…cannot promise…’? That’s a pitty. Do you know why Aqara is hesitant about sharing firmware updates?

[image] SunBeech: Do you know why Aqara is hesitant about sharing firmware updates Obviously they want to sell their Aqara hubs more, so they prevent updates from other systems so they sell more hubs. Besides that, they might also get way more support tickets and RMAs from people who updated …

Sorry, I did indeed meant to say can’t** Aqara has always been a bit hesitant, took us 3 years to finally get their Zigbee implemention documentation… partially :sweat_smile: My logical assumption would be that they also want a reason for users to buy their own hub.

Yes those are all valid reasons of course. On the other hand you could also argue that many users just want one single (or already have an existing) home automation hub, which is not necessarily one of Aqara’s own hubs. Being able to control and maintain Aqara devices via third party hubs, like Hom…

Adding an Aqara product to Homey Pro via an Aqara hub: what to do?

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SunBeech March 26, 2026, 5:33pm 37

This has been addressed by Athom before in this post: Aqara FP300 with Matter! - #195 by Doekse. The TL;DR is that motion and presence are combined when using the FP300 in matter mode.

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