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Is the stack Home Assistant, ComBee II with Aqara, Ikea, Mijia (option Home assistant) makes sense? (lemmy.world)

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Hello, i am a newbie in creating a smart home. I have researched a bit and planned the following stack just by reading and hopefully to get some suggestion to see if the following combinations would actually work

Goal

I am planning the main control to be Home Assistant, Homekit a nice to have, not necessary. I was looking at hubs (Aqara, Xiaomi, Ikea, Homepod) but a comment from r/aqara suggests that ComBee II is potentially a better solution

Components that i think might work

Home Assistant + ComBee II: as the brain power
Light bulbs: ikea rgb and aqara white/cream colour
sensor: aqara
curtain driver: aqara
smart socket/plug: ikea and aqara

Components not sure how to integrate

Mijia sensors + display: This is a bluetooth device that works as sensor but i am just going display those information it catches
Aqara door bell: not sure if this is a zigbee 3 device or not
Other bluetooth device
Xiaomi vacuum: not sure what protocol but isn't the biggest matter
Unsure which brand is good for security cams

questions

Any idea if the above makes sense in practice?
Any experience on the few items that I wasn't sure of?

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[–] Amax 1 points 2 years ago

Another vote for the Sonoff zigbee stick shared earlier. Be aware that there's two versions (different chips) and I believe the most stable one is the Texas Instruments one so this is what you probably want to get.

I really like my Ikea bulbs and Home Assistant can deal with them in full. Nice things about the bulbs is that they are routers in their mesh network, so as long as I have a bulb close I am able to add zigbee devices.

All my zigbee devices are either Aqara or Ikea and all have been rock solid, the only one that gave me a bit of trouble was an Aqara TVOC Air Quaility sensor which stopped sending data once since I configured it, I updated the firmware and have had no trouble since.