Aqara Hub

Why Hubitat Elevation
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It seems to be generally accepted that Hubitat doesn't and will not in the future work with Aquara sensors etc.

I like the Aquara sensors form factor, battery life, am interested in presence sensors and have a number of legacy sensors which I am unable to use.

I am therefore thinking of getting an Aquara hub to connect their sensors to and to then integrate into Habitat.

Can that be done directly between the two hubs in an easy manner, if so how?

My fallback will be to use HomeKit (which I do for my garage doors) but that could involve far too many virtual devices?

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If you have a Matter-capable Aqara hub, you may be able to add it as a Matter Bridge to Hubitat (there aren't any built-in drivers for this at the moment, but at least one community solution is likely to work). I don't think there are any other direct integrations for other Aqara hubs, though workarounds may be viable, one of which you mention (along with its pitfalls).

Blanket, non-time-limited statements like this are rarely likely to be true...

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AIUI, Hubitat doesn't work with older Aqara devices unless you're very deliberate in your choice of repeaters. Newer ZigBee 3.0 stuff should be fine, as far as I've seen.

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I have an Aqara M3 hub that I have been messing around with just for fun. I was able to pair a few Aqara Zigbee sensors to the M3 hub. I then paired the M3 Hub (as a Matter Bridge) with Apple Home using Matter (Note: Do NOT use Apple HomeKit to pair the M3 Hub with Apple Home. Otherwise, the devices will not be sharable with Hubitat via Matter.) Once the sensors appeared in Apple Home, I was able to share the Aqara Matter Bridge with Hubitat using @kkossev's Matter Advanced Bridge driver. The sensors then appeared in Hubitat and have been working fine.

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Many thanks that was the sort of thing I was wondering about.

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Hubitat staff has hinted at different times that Matter hub drivers are something they are looking into. In other words, this first round of Matter probably wasn't the last, they would look into adding drivers and device types as Matter matured and if technology permits.

So there may be a Matter driver for hubs at some point, although that is pretty vague as to when. It could be in the next release, or it could be a couple years from now.

That said, many have said the community driver works great, so I would look at that driver ogiewon linked above.

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