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...
EDIT, a few weeks later: check out platform 2.3.9.186, with more to come.
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.
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.
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.
That time has come. If you are part of the beta group, you can try out Aqara, Hue and other Matter bridges. If you are not a beta member, public release is not too far out, depending on how the beta testing is going.
Early Aqara devices did not adhere closely to the ZIgbee standards and could be problematic with Hubitat. I never could get Aqara devices to work until I removed some older Smartthings and Centralite HA 1.2 smartplugs from my setup and replaced them with Zigbee 3.0 smartplugs. I only purchased two Aqara devices (1 water leak sensor and 1 vibration sensor), I eventually replaced them with other devices that I found to be more reliable,
Many newer Aqara devices should be Zigbee 3.0 compliant and should work with Hubitat without needing the Aqara hub.
I'm also looking for a doc or something for this. I have added my M3 hub to the hubitat, THEN I added a device to the M3 hub, how do I get it to update/show that device on the hubitat after adding it?
