Newbie questions about hubs

I have to warn you: Aqara (sensors) and Ikea lights don’t mix when both added to Homey zigbee. The sensors stop sending updates when connected to an Ikea light’s router, and worse, they stop looking for other routers as well.

This 5y or longer issue seems to be onresolvable for the Athom team. It occurs on both Pro 2016-2019 and Pro 2023 models.

I’d like to recommend to keep HA running with zigbee2mqtt, there’s no Aqara/Ikea issue whatsoever.

Also for support for new(er) devices H.A. beats Homey often.

They integrate very well: