The EASIEST Way to Add Zigbee to Home Assistant - Aqara Smart Home M2 Hub

Aqara has a ton of Smart Home Zigbee products, and they just released the new Aqara M2 Hub which has HomeKit support, meaning that adding Zigbee devices to your Home Assistant installation has never been easier. In this review of the Aqara Smart Home platform with M2 hub, we take a look at how it functions as a beginner smart home platform, and how you can actually very easily integrate this with your Home Assistant to give you a very nice, local, Zigbee setup.

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0:00 - Intro
0:34 - Aqara M2 Hub
1:27 - Aqara devices and sensors
2:03 - Aqara Smart Home setup (so easy!)
2:53 - Aqara Smart Home overview, features and automations
6:31 - Skillshare
7:38 - Cube, Camera and Wall Switches
9:28 - Hub M2 Infrared controller
10:06 - Home Assistant and Aqara
12:56 - Conclusion

[EverythingSmartHome]

How many of you are already using at least one Aqara device!?

[Goygle]

I've been using Aqara devices for more than 4 years (20ish door sensors, some sired switches and wireless switches) with the 1st gen hub.

This is BY FAR the easiest and most stable zigbee network I had.

I now use ZHA on home assistant to open up to some other brands but I keep my Aqara devices linked with the Aqara hub since it's rock solid.

When some friends asked me what they shoud get to start with home automation, my answer is always the same: Go with Aqara, play with it and fi you want to go further, get home assistant and integrate your Aqara network in it.

[RobertPetrache]

Hello! Any chance you can explain how did you manage to add the Aqara Hub into HA? My Homekit Controller does not discover it. Thanks!

[kevinrsl]

Great video once again. Can you recommend a hub to use on home assistant for all other ZigBee devices. Other than the Aquara.

[philippeburki]

Thanks for the video. This is not the first one that I watch from your channel to get up to speed with HA.

[RealWizardry]

I like the contact sensor and buttons. The hub looks useful as it now apparently works with matter but I’ve not managed to get that working in HA yet

[awedaei]

Thank you for sharing your experience with Aqara. Can I pair Aqara child devices with HA while they are still paired with Aqara hub?

[MAMDAVEM]

Hi I've been using Aqara sensors (without a hub) within Home assistant for over a year now. I find they are easy to connect but sometimes drop out and I need to reconnect them. I think they are some of the best looking sensors available and have great battery life. I have yet to find a good use for the cube. However since Aqara have launched in the EU their devices are roughly double the price of what I paid for them when I bought them directly from China.

[akhan]

I’m confused how do you add the aqara hub m2 as an integration! I don’t see any option for this?
I’m happy to just use the HomeKit stuff you mentioned?

[RealWizardry]

I’ve got door sensors, buttons and the cube. I know I can add the sensors direct but if I want the hub in home assistant using matter, how can we do that?

[johannbeckham]

I bought M2 and paired it with HA. I just notice that I can see the "lux" value in HA for my Aqara motion sensor. I can only see the battery info and whether motion is detected but not lux. How can I see the lux info and use that in my automation in HA?

[RossReedstrom]

Using aqara door and motion sensors with a classic cc2531 usb stick and zigbee2mqtt (and HA, of course). The "look" of the door sensors doesn't matter to me, since I embedded them in the jamb, behind the deadbolt pocket, to use as "door locked" sensors (magnet in the deadbolt). The motion sensors are a recent acquisition, I do like how small and neat they are.

[diederikmaes]

Already have quite some Aqara stuff running and still need to add more to Home Assistant this winter which is now sitting in a box waiting.
Have had some practical fun with the cubes and the motion detector as well as door sensor work great.

[ancioi]

Thank you very much for so good videos and tutorials. I bought the aqara hub m2 few days ago and also my new raspberry pi. I have my aqara hub added in aqara app, in my homekit but I'm not able to add it to home assistant.

Could you please give me some details how you add it to home assistant?

many thanks!

[nfrmobile]

Question: Are most ( vibration, door sensor, temperature/ humidity, ...) shown in google home when using the M2 hub ?

[DonKliesch]

First thank you. You videos are a great help for getting started in HA. Using in about 3 months now. My largest issue is compatibility. Can the Aqaba m2 be added to HA if a Nortek. is already used as a controller in Zigbee ? I have read that some sensors work better on the hub (vibration sensor). My set up is on a Dell Wyler 5060. Using HA OS.

[tojuv]

What Zigbee hub or stick you are using with HA and whats it's range?

What I read direct connection from Aqara to HA is bit limited, which is sad since I have quite much Aqara devices around house.

[frankschuenemann]

is there meanwhile a way around to integrate the IR devices to Home Kit / Home Assistant ???

[peterbuehrer]

Is there a possibility to add an Aqara M1S Gen2 Hub to Homeassistant

[ItsEverythingElse]

I'm trying the M1S gen 2. Got it working in Home Assistant quite easily but the fact that Aqara is largely a closed eco-system means I am going to return it (unless I can figure out if somehow Matter devices will be more compatible?). Shame, it's a cool little device with the LED ring and loud speaker.