Aqara Door/Window Sensor P2: Matter/Thread in Home Assistant
How to pair the Aqara P2 door sensor to Home Assistant via Matter over Thread: prerequisites, step-by-step pairing, entity setup, and troubleshooting.
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Aqara Matter Advanced Bridging: Scene & Signal Sync with Home Assistant
Use Aqara Matter Advanced Bridging to expose Aqara scenes and automation signals to Home Assistant, fully local with no cloud. Step-by-step setup.
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Aqara Smart Lock U100: Home Assistant Local Setup Guide
How to integrate the Aqara U100 smart lock with Home Assistant via Matter. Covers hub requirements, entities, cloud dependencies, and the real gotchas.
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Aqara LED Bulb T2: Zigbee2MQTT Setup for Home Assistant
Pair the Aqara LED Bulb T2 with Zigbee2MQTT and Home Assistant for fully local control. Updated for Z2M 2.7.2 native support, no external converter.
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Aqara and Xiaomi on an IoT VLAN with Home Assistant
VLAN isolation breaks Aqara hub discovery and Xiaomi Miio control. The fix is mDNS reflection, outbound NAT, and firewall rules in the right order.
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Aqara Hub M100 and Home Assistant: Local Matter Setup
Connect Aqara Hub M100 to Home Assistant via Matter bridge for local control. VLAN setup, entity differences from M2/M3, and what still needs cloud.
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Aqara HomeKit Mode: Local Automations vs Cloud Explained
Aqara HomeKit mode is not the same as local automations. What runs offline, what still needs cloud, and which setup fits your privacy goals.
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Aqara Hub M3 as a Matter Bridge for Home Assistant: True Local Setup Guide
The Aqara Hub M3 can run supported automations on the hub and expose devices to Home Assistant over Matter or HomeKit. Those are separate connections: a local HA integration does not make every Aqara app feature work offline. This guide covers both HA routes, the M3’s separate Thread border-router role, IR options, and an offline…
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Aqara Presence Sensor FP2: Local-Only Setup for Home Assistant and HomeKit
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 can detect someone sitting still and distinguish different areas of a room. That makes it useful for automations a motion sensor struggles with: keeping a reading light on…