Need advice: aqara by matter or directly on homey

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I have several (14) aqara devices and those are connected with 2 Aqara hubs.

I have a aqara roller on 40m from my house, this device is placed in our gardenhouse. So i need the two aqara hubs active, otherwise i think the distance between homey pro and aqara roller is too much. Now the second hub is between the first hub and the roller.

Now When i create a flow, it is very hard to find our Aqara (connected with Matter) devices. Normally, all my devices are within the apps - but for aqara which is connected by matter, they are only located in the specific zones and that gonna be a little bit hard to find every time. (Got lot of zones)

Why does the aqara app not work when the devices are connected with Matter? Is there any way to get the devices in the aqara app?

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Matter devices with standard possilbilities don’t need an app, that’s why you can find the flowcards only with the devices in their zones, and not also via the “apps” entry.

With the web app, when editing an (advanced) flow, there’s a search bar on top of the “add flowcard” dialog, which obviates selecting through the zones to get to the right device.

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With the mobile app, the mandatory clumsy way to have to reach a device by “clicking” through 100 zones makes me think it’s about time the mobile flow editor gets extended with a similar search bar as well.
You can request features by posting at forum category “ideas and suggestions”, or / and send it to homey.app/support

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