Jim Willis

Aqara Hub and Home Assistant

The Aqara sensors and such have been super reliable in my HomeKit environment, highly recommend. But, as I’m currently trying to solve what should be a simple use case, I’m getting into the weeds of Home Assistant.

I’ve spent a grand total of about 4 hours in Home Assistant so far and I’m sure it will get easier but this is definitely not something you’d give to your mom to run her home (not that Apple’s HomeKit is that much better but at least it doesn’t use terms like “entities” and such).

Anyway, this is to say that I really wanted to try to get my Aqara stuff connected to Home Assistant. I spent an hour or so digging through docs and YouTube videos and then finally found this (literally) 1 minute long movie that says to just remove the existing Aqara stuff from your HomeKit and it will show up in Home Assistant.

I was admittedly a bit nervous, but I started simply by removing my G2h Camera/Hub from HomeKit and a second later all of my Aqara stuff disappeared from HomeKit and showed up in Home Assistant. Granted, I had to go around and figure out which room each sensor was in again but that wasn’t too bad.

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