The Aqara G2H Pro is one of the few affordable indoor cameras that doubles as a Zigbee hub — and with the right setup, you can get a fully local camera stream into Home Assistant without routing a single frame through Aqara’s cloud. The trick is that the G2H Pro doesn’t speak raw RTSP by … Read more
Pair the Aqara SJCGQ11LM or SJCGQ12LM to Home Assistant locally via Zigbee2MQTT — no hub, no cloud. Full setup, automations, and placement guide.
Aqara Cube T1 Pro: Home Assistant Automations via Zigbee2MQTT The Aqara Cube T1 Pro is one of the most action-dense physical controllers you can put on a coffee table. One device, one hand, and you get 58+ distinct gestures — shake, flip, rotate, tap, hold — each mappable to a different Home Assistant action. That’s … Read more
Aqara Door Sensor in Home Assistant via Zigbee2MQTT (No Hub) Aqara door and window sensors are some of the best bang-for-buck contact sensors in the Zigbee ecosystem — small, reliable, and cheap enough to put on every door and window without breaking anything. But Aqara pushes you toward their hub or the Mi Home cloud. … Read more
The Aqara Hub M3 is sold as a local-first, edge-computing hub. The marketing is not entirely wrong — but it’s not entirely right either. “Edge mode” means something specific on the M3, and it doesn’t automatically mean your Home Assistant integration skips the cloud. If you set this up without understanding the distinction, you’ll end … Read more
The Aqara P1 (RTCGQ14LM) looks identical to older Aqara motion sensors, but under the hood it’s a different beast. Its predecessor, the RTCGQ11LM, hardcodes a 60-second re-trigger lockout — move in front of it at second 61 and your lights work fine; sit still at second 58 and they cut out. The P1 ships with … Read more
Aqara’s March 2026 privacy policy update explicitly addresses local mode data collection. Here’s what it says, what it doesn’t cover, and how to verify it.
The M3 is Aqara’s first hub with a real local automation engine. The M2 came before it and still gets sold beside it, often at half the price. If you’re weighing the Aqara M2 vs M3 for a privacy-focused setup, the spec sheet comparison misses the point. The question is: what actually breaks when the … Read more
The Aqara E1 hub costs less than a nice dinner and gets every Aqara Zigbee device you own into Home Assistant with full local control. No cloud polling. No subscription. The catch: the setup path is counterintuitive enough that most guides either skip over the hard parts or get them wrong. This guide documents the … Read more
Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. If you buy through them, we earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. The Aqara Presence Sensor FP2 is one of the more impressive mmWave devices to land in the consumer smart home market in the last few years. Multi-zone tracking, sub-second response times, illuminance sensing … Read more
