Did Home Assistant Just Become Obsolete?

Did Home Assistant Just Become Obsolete? - Aqara M3 Hub

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The new Aqara M3 Smart Home Hub is one of the most powerful yet, with Thread, Zigbee, Wifi and Matter support, that works entirely locally and can accept 3rd party Smart Home products. But it also has a secret weapon.
This video review is sponsored by Aqara, all opinions are my own
The Aqara M3 Hub works with Apple Homekit, Amazon Alexa, Google Home AND Home Assistant, making this one of the best Smart Home hubs for 2024
*UPDATE*. Aqara have listened and ALREADY implemented a huge matter update, the following are now compatible with the M3 Hub:
Contact Sensor
Occupancy Sensor
Light Sensor
On/Off Light (Wall) Switch
Dimmer (Wall) Switch
Thermostat
On/Off (Smart) Plug
Matter Bridge
From Aqara:
Due to limited resources, we haven't tested all third-party Matter devices, and as third-party support is still a “lab feature,” interoperability issues may arise. Nonetheless, by broadening Matter connectivity, we aim to offer users greater choice in crafting their ideal smart home. We'll keep you updated on additional device types joining Matter. Thanks again for your support!
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0:00 - Intro
1:53 - Aqara M3 Hub Overview
4:31 - Aqara M3 Hub Local Zigbee and Thread
7:30 - Aqara M3 Hub Matter
9:19 - Aqara M3 Hub Home Assistant
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@paulhibbert Ай бұрын

Happy Saturday Everyone! BUY AN AQARA M3 HUB BELOW... but first A MASSIVE Update: Aqara have listened and ALREADY implemented a huge matter update, the following are now compatible with the M3 Hub: Contact Sensor Occupancy Sensor Light Sensor On/Off Light (Wall) Switch Dimmer (Wall) Switch Thermostat On/Off (Smart) Plug Matter Bridge From Aqara: Due to limited resources, we haven't tested all third-party Matter devices, and as third-party support is still a “lab feature,” interoperability issues may arise. Nonetheless, by broadening Matter connectivity, we aim to offer users greater choice in crafting their ideal smart home. We'll keep you updated on additional device types joining Matter. Thanks again for your support! As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. By buying through any of the links below I will earn commission at no extra cost to you :) DISCOUNTS: UK - 20% off code - HUBM3PAUL (From May 11-15) US - 20% off code - USHUBM3P (From May 11-15) LINKS UK: amzn.to/3UU2kv3 US: amzn.to/3WBmQlm

@sojirou Ай бұрын

I literally ordered, canceled then re-ordered it now because of the third party matter support. Now with this new update, I'm a little more convinced it's a product I can have in my smart home.

@BLACKBERREST3 Ай бұрын

20% code is not working for me on amazon

@BLACKBERREST3 Ай бұрын

nvm. had to hit enter, not continue.

@chrisdrew6965 Ай бұрын

Paul, I use SmartThings to control WiFi lighting and some zig bee products. Over 100 individual items! Could this M3 product replace the smarthings hub and bring me up to date technology wise? Thank you for your great content.

@Valehass Ай бұрын

I've just had an additional room added to my house, just to house all my smart home hubs. It will be tight but I think I may be able to fit this one in.

@Sparky_D Ай бұрын

Paul connects his 54th hub to his network. 😂

@bobriemersma Ай бұрын

Yeah, I want ONE hub. And a Tuya hub at that. None of this ongoing silliness any longer, please.

@Sparky_D Ай бұрын

@@bobriemersma you WANT a Tuya hub??? What? That should be the last choice!

@sy2see Ай бұрын

😂

@l0gic23 Ай бұрын

55th... He installed two for High Availability

@MrBrndin Ай бұрын

@@Sparky_D A hub that worked with Tuya, but locally, no more china? I'd pay $500 right now.

@awaitingthedawn Ай бұрын

"Look! It controls Phillips Hue! LOOK!" *Paul keeps hand in front of the Hue bulb throughout 😂* Loving your work, dude! ❤

@bonamin Ай бұрын

FOR ME, the biggest advantage to Home Assistant, is ESPHome. I'm making DIY devices, that work EXACTLY the way I want them to. For example something you can't easily find (if at all) is my custom fridge/freezer thermostats. Other than my Home, I have a restaurant, and I am controlling all refrigerators with ESPHome devices. This way everyone asks me, how my beers are always so perfect? :D They are perfect because a shit ton of code controls them, and not a stupid ON/OFF old school thermostat.

@ruialves92 Ай бұрын

>This way everyone asks me, how my beers are always so perfect? :D Why is that? Specific temperature for the beer? I'm not a beer fan but I'm curious about what you're doing to make it better (perfect :D)

@bonamin Ай бұрын

@@ruialves92 In my country (Greece) and especially in rural areas, people tend to like their beer, nearly frosted. (Some Info) Each beer, has a different serving temperature, and TEHCNICALLY, the beers we serve, are supposed to be served at 3 to 5 degrees (C). For example, Heineken's website states that it should be served at around 5°C. (What I do) 1) To keep the beers super chilled, yet avoid freezing them, (which ruins them) I set my thermostat to -5°C 2) Even if you push the fridge lower, beer takes some time to actually freeze, so when it's peak beer drinking time, the thermostat is auto-set to lower temperatures to counter the constant opening of the door. 3) When the door is opened the thermostat waits until it's closed + a certain amount of time, so the temperature stabilizes again, and THEN calculates if a run is needed. If you don't do that, the compressor runs ALMOST every time you open the door, since the temperature changes drastically. This is to prevent excess mechanical wear on the compressor. 4) When the store is closed, the thermostat is auto-set to a more "normal" temperature, to preserve the beer at a cold state but conserve energy. Once the store is open, the thermostat returns again to frosty sub-zero mode. Tricks like these help with having a beer, near perfect, at least perfect for my kind of customers, even if it's wrong generally. :D PS. I don't drink beer. Or alcohol in general.

@ruialves92 Ай бұрын

@@bonamin Nice job. Thanks for the explanation 🙏

@ugh635 Ай бұрын

Home Assistant will never become obsolete! *Insert Paul's home assistant pelvis thrust here* 😂

@Stephen-Jones Ай бұрын

I'm amazed you can finally say "hue" without vomiting 🤣😜

@KonradKrawczuk Ай бұрын

i AM HERE ONLY TO FIND THIS COMMENT ;)

@norfolkngood8960 Ай бұрын

The number of time I yelled HUE into a nightclub toilet in the 90s especially on a Monday night 80's music, 80p entry and 80p a drink means I just can't have that stuff in my home now In the same way I can't drink Jack Daniels anymore LOL

@halko1 Ай бұрын

I dove headfirst into Home Assistant, transforming my home into an automation haven! I'm up to my ears with Matter, Thread, and the latest updates. My living room? It's a server farm now. I've drilled holes everywhere, wiring this place into the future. The old light switches are now just quaint wall decor. When my family couldn't handle one more tech rant, they left. But who needs company when you can automate companionship? I've replaced the family dynamic with robots and a voice assistant that greets me every morning. Hearing "Hello" from my AI is oddly touching. Turns out you can engineer a bit of heart into a smart home. My house is now an "ideal future home," completely aligned with my tech dreams. I'm not lonely; I'm liberated, free to innovate without limits. I USE HOME ASSISTANT! And, just a side note, if anyone has some spare food coupons, those would be quite helpful. I USE HOME ASSISTANT!

@paulhibbert Ай бұрын

*Yells aggressively in home assistant

@MrBrndin Ай бұрын

I can't tell if you're being funny, as I did this EXACT thing after my divorce! When the X wife comes over, I'm talking to the house, and she's like "you replaced me with this shtt?"

@wapphigh5250 Ай бұрын

Hilarious you know you want it dude....

@technithusiast Ай бұрын

I think this hub has potential but it’s doing what all the other hubs can do and All the features I cared about didn’t work 😢 Have you tried testing their local automations?

@bclee__ Ай бұрын

Great review Paul! Also, great job representing Latvia in Eurovision this past weekend!

@edwardgreenjr167 Ай бұрын

Awesome vid as always. Hope you have a great weekend man.

@chorltondragon Ай бұрын

OMG. MY EYES! MY EYES! I had to stop at the Titanic "parody". Now when I see Kate Winslet I'll be thinking of you. You monster! (When I stop laughing, of course)

@ronm6585 Ай бұрын

Thanks Paul. Happy Saturday.

@Georgetwentyten Ай бұрын

This hub is insane! I've never seen a hub before that has so many features, AND is Local. I might use add it in to my smart home to run along with home assistant. Its also a great excuse to get a wifi IR blaster, since there's an air conditioner in a room that hasn't been smart for years now, and I could use the Aqara hub to do just that. I've never used Aqara products before, but I've seen many videos you made about them, and I'm convinced they are pretty good now. Happy Saturday Paul!

@chrgeorgeson Ай бұрын

I was not prepared for the Titanic bit....all of it was nightmare fuel. In other words, thank you.

@paulhibbert Ай бұрын

I’ve had to stop taking Leo’s calls, he got a bit clingy

@norfolkngood8960 Ай бұрын

@@paulhibbert If only he'd been a bit more clingy he might've survived (spoilers) :D

@ilbozitto Ай бұрын

Watching this on the train, I laughed so hard at the titanic part that all my neighbors came to see what was happening on my phone , thanks, i made friends now.

@paulhibbert Ай бұрын

🤣 just doing my job

@KevinRank Ай бұрын

@@paulhibbert Hopefully, new subscribers, too!

@GardenreetLighting Ай бұрын

Impressive! Aqara M3 seems like the ultimate smart home hub. 🔥 Your review was super detailed and helpful. Thanks for sharing! 😊

@CYANIDESYD Ай бұрын

Purchased 4 onvis matter , thread smart plugs to and connected to the m3 hub in seconds very happy with that ..

@CustomComputing Ай бұрын

lol what a great video edit of you in the bttf scene!

@kd4nc Ай бұрын

Paul, Great Video… I had watched four other videos that were either negative or “ it’s too early to buy”, so I had decided to NOT buy the M3 until I watched your funny video (Don’t change please) .You completely changed my mind with the Local control and failover clustering features and your properly tempered hope that Aqara will fill in the missing support as matter compatibility comes to pass over time. I ordered two M3s this morning, I will do some Internet down testing… This should be fun…. Thanks, keep up the good work mate!

@DennisSchmitz Ай бұрын

8:12 that Google clip is the most relatable thing ever... My Nesthub (assigned to my room with my AC assigned as well) just turned on every single AC unit in the house when I told it to turn on the AC... 🤣 Also all the matter (both Thread and Wifi) stopped working many times a day after the late February update of the Nest Hubs in my house. Switched to Home Assistant with all the existent stuff I already had (Wiz lights, some Tuya stuff and Tapo Matter integrated sensors and some EVE stuff) and added some Zigbee to the mix and made everything 100% local and cannot imagine using Google Home anymore for anything else but their faulty speakers and displays.

@karlpetermichl2700 11 күн бұрын

fully agree, Google Home is also not reliable for me and the automations are a joke, very few commands and not even a "delay" options to keep the lights on for a minute after the prox sensir detects movement...

@DigitalImagesOfWirral Ай бұрын

Morning Sir, happy Saturday!

@paulhibbert Ай бұрын

Happy Saturday dude!

@Bigglare Ай бұрын

Great video. 1. Aqara is still proprietary Zigbee coordinator. 2. Thread radio still currently creates an additional Thread fabric on top of your Apple, Google, Amazon, Eero, and any other brands Thread hub.

@JoshFisher567 Ай бұрын

I can't believe they left it up to manufacturers to work together to share credentials for the thread network. Right now Amazon devices won't join any other thread network. If you have 4 border routers from different manufacturers you end up with 4 thread networks instead of one unified network for fail over. It also causes device issues because the device is on 4 different networks so way more traffic than there should be. Currently there isn't a way to share credentials unless all border routers are from the same manufacturer.

@AndrewDee Ай бұрын

No, my M3 joined Apple thread network and acts as a border router there

@JoshFisher567 Ай бұрын

@@AndrewDee hmm.. maybe something has changed in the last four months, additionally Matter works over WiFi and thread so thread isn't even needed for.a.Matyer device to work, which is not at all.confuaing.. The Thread specification includes a foundation for adding a border router from any manufacturer to any Thread network, but during CES 2024 Jonathan Hui, VP of technology at Thread Group, said “Thread does not currently specify a protocol for securely sharing Thread credentials between different Thread border routers.” Meaning they don’t necessarily all join together on one network. “The platforms have yet to agree on a standardized way to share Thread credentials amongst each other,” Stefan Bauer-Schwan of smart home device maker Eve Systems sa8d. I would verify with the Discovery ap0.for iOS, It can show just the Thread network and all the Thread border router networks and edge devices, including devices from, Nanoleaf, Google, Samsung, Apple, and Amazon. To make it more confusing it also depends on what phone operating system you initially add them from. when a new Thread device or border router shows up in your home, something has to give it the credentials to the network (besides you typing in a 32-digit alphanumeric code). For a Thread gadget like a plug or light bulb, it should be able to grab those from whatever phone you set it up with. To do this, Apple and Google created keychain APIs for their phone OS, through iOS for an iPhone or Google Play services for Android. But when a Thread border router wants to join the network, it may not be able to access those credentials, or it may choose not to. Because border routers aren’t Matter devices, Matter doesn’t specify how it joins the network. And because Thread Group hasn’t told manufacturers and platforms how to handle this handshake, they have to figure it out between themselves. This means Apple has to work with Samsung; Amazon has to work with Google; Google with Samsung, and so on. While this is happening, it’s been very slow. And the current state of play is that the manufacturer can decide if its border router will join the Thread network created by its competitor or go ahead and set up its own network in your home. Currently, Amazon border routers will only work on a network set up by their devices (some Eero Wi-Fi routers and Echo fourth-gen smart speakers) and won’t join an existing Thread network nor allow devices from other manufacturers to join their networks.

@JoshFisher567 Ай бұрын

@@AndrewDee Do you have multiple thread border routers? It's only an issue if you have multiple ones. The entire point was A - redundancy, if one thread border router goes down, the second one will take its place and B - entend your thread network like a zigbee repeater. What currently happens is if you joined an Amazon thread border router it would create a new entirely separate network. Now your device is doing twice the traffic talking to 2 thread border routers. This causes issues and negates any advantages of having multiple ones. The issue is companies haven't come up with a web API to share the credentials, similar to a WiFi network password. Apple and Google have been the best but currently Amazon won't join another network and has to create its own. It's caused a lot of headaches for early adopters. Just search the web for "matter has a thread issue" and there is an extremely detailed article by Verge. If you stay in one ecosystem (like Apple) it's a non issue.

@diegogarciar 5 күн бұрын

So that means if I have home assistant, I can now have my aqara devices back on HomeKit?!! That's awesome!

@Vectorr66 Ай бұрын

I was very interested after watching this but seeing the reviews so far on Amazon are scary.

@mattconstance2196 Ай бұрын

Always fun Paul. One can only hope that A) if ordered it actually turns up, unlike the LinknLink ISG who have gone radio silent on my order & B) it becomes available in Australia so that it can actually have a chance at turning up.

@vulpix0r Ай бұрын

You're not the only one, they no longer reply to any emails. The people taking care of LinknLink seems to have disappeared.

@paulhibbert Ай бұрын

LinknLink were blindsided by how many people bought it off the back of my review, they’re still there, it’s just taking a while for them to catch up. It’s a shame to hear they aren’t responding but I have faith they will deliver, they’re good guys behind the scenes.

@mattconstance2196 Ай бұрын

@@paulhibbert See the power you have Paul. The force is strong with you.

@xraargu6212 22 күн бұрын

TV control would be clutch. We have older family members who can be on there own but have difficulty now using TV remotes (pressing the input button, which I dug out) and it would be FANTASTIC to be able to change the channel for them, (hit the input button for them), etc.

@djbet653 Ай бұрын

Betteridge's law of headlines applies well to bait... Even so, excellent to see that at Aqara is still on the correct path to locally controlled homes.

@PaulSinnema Ай бұрын

This video has hilarious new jokes. Had to laugh very loud about the Leonardo joke. You're getting better at this all the time, love it. I'm a bit locked into the Loxone eco system and it is hard to do Matter at all with that. But I recently discovered Home Assistant too. It is a huge learning curve but I'm getting the hang of it. HA has a plugin that can talk to Loxone so I think my transition to HA is going to unlock Loxone for me. Sad of all the time invested in making a Loxone Dashboard but I think HA is going to do very well indeed.

@shlomisherman7391 Ай бұрын

Hmmm, Good, Good. Been looking forever for a non DIY local ac control. Thank you Paul, my wife will hate me 😂

@supernova8962 Ай бұрын

AWESOME !!! Love your videos ... I finally decide to dump my Aqara System ..Keeping my Lutron, YOlink , Ring and HUE 😜😜

@paulhibbert Ай бұрын

You mean Philips hueeerrrggghhhh

@MarkyMarkIRL 12 күн бұрын

“It just werrrrrrrrrrrks!” 😂

@johnpeters4214 Ай бұрын

Very interesting Paul. I have been trying to add an Aqara Door and Window Sensor P2 to Home Assistant without any success. I just want things to work so will be checking out the M3 Hub.

@JoshFisher567 Ай бұрын

Are you trying to connect via Zigbee or thread/matter? Also, what Zigbee/thread USB adapter are you using for HA?

@EsotericArctos Ай бұрын

As much as this hub is great, and it really is, the working with an air conditioner remote control is not new technology. Sensibo is at lesat one has been able to work with Air Con IR remotes for quite some time and keep everything in sync. There are also DIY solutions, but sensibo is commercial out of the box That aside, I am considering getting one of these M3 hubs. I have to admit this is a great option and it seems to be executed well.

@blissweb Ай бұрын

Wow, this might tempt me back into the Aqara Ecosystem. M2 is great so M3 would be the next logical upgrade. Finally Aqara saw the light and opened up a bit (lot). Now just gotta wait till everything is Matter and Aqara gets the software right. The IR tech looks awesome. M2 is already controlling my dumb ac, but not as well as this one could.

@mrfreezey1 Ай бұрын

Thanks for this!.. im a noob to automation..and planned on getting the Aqara M3 Hub when it was debuted..but didnt realize the breath of ehat it could do and I just actually ordered the Home Assistant. I was thinking do they play well with each other or do they replace the other

@dc857 16 күн бұрын

Don't pay anyone for Home Assistant. It's completely free.....

@patrickpaganini Ай бұрын

I came to scoff at the title - but damn Paul, this was a great video in every way.

@paulhibbert Ай бұрын

Thanks dude!! ❤️

@Raress96 Ай бұрын

Gotta be honest, the fact that it alwaus listens to infrared remotes is really cool

@kerrigreen2626 Ай бұрын

Good luck in eurovision tonight lol

@DarthFurball Ай бұрын

Awesome. Just wish it also had an RF blaster for devices like motorized blinds.

@TheLDunn1 Ай бұрын

Had our neighbours over last night for a meal, and during the course of conversation he mentioned he has home assistant. How I managed to stifle my laughter as I thought about Paul (spookily, our neighbours name was Paul too), I will never know, but it could have been a conversation killer right there are WWiii between neighbours thanks to this channel!

@paulhibbert Ай бұрын

You should have leapt to your feet and humped the air yelling home assistant! He might have joined in

@TheLDunn1 Ай бұрын

@@paulhibbert 🤣….yeap, the thought did go through my mind for a split second!

@norfolkngood8960 Ай бұрын

You now need to setup rude HA messages as SSID on your wifi networks, see if he reacts

@chrisdrew6965 Ай бұрын

Is this a realistic replacement for Smarthings primarily WiFi lights and some zigbee. Will it provide a good user interface experience. Thank you

@majinv954 Ай бұрын

They just updated it today too I think ….or was it last night….to start opening up the 3rd party stuff. Mine arrives tomorrow. So pumped to have HomeKit , home assistant, and Aqara all working together

@peteg330 Ай бұрын

Paul Paul Paul! I've watched this later than normal and was having my tea when the Titanic clip came on. Suffice to say, the dog is now eating the tea I was enjoying hahaha

@Yama_1291 Ай бұрын

How do multiple of these behave and if they are not in signal range of each other? For example, will these hubs let you extend a thread network to anywhere you can drag an ethernet cord? Because having a way to do this with a home assistant compatible router would be very interesting.

@cjhoffmn 14 күн бұрын

Paul - this was a great video and inspired me to go buy one! However, I can't get it to connect to HA. (Core w/Docker). Please consider doing a video about how you got it to connect?

@ALaModePi Ай бұрын

My first thought on seeing the title was that it's a very good step in the right direction. There is the matter (not a pun in this case) of the user interface. Having that kind of capacity on the back end is fantastic, no doubt, but I require (especially for the coveted spouse-approval rating) a front-end where the main functions fit easily onto a phone screen, but with extended functionality also available. "Listening permanently to your remotes" (so a remote can become a universal controller): That's really cool. This is the kind of thing Aqara often builds into its devices. I'm glad to see the company is continuing to do this kind of extended functionality. "Works with all of Aqara's previous ZigBee devices": Now that's a great thing too. I really don't like "It works will all of our new devices, so get ready to re-buy all your old stuff." Does it work with other ZigBee devices? I think it should at least work with "actually following the standard" ZigBee devices, but it would be good to test it. "2.4 and 5 GHz connectability": I do appreciate not having to temporarily disable my 5GHz band on my mesh in order to install a device. POE is also nice. "Falling over to a second hub": Given that most hubs have either a) insisted that they be the only hub of their type on the network or b) had some ridiculously complex method for getting two hubs to cooperate with each other, this is, as you say, "a major innovation." I currently have my hub located in my back room so that it can reach the garage as well as the house. That has, with a few devices located on or near my front porch, caused some connectivity issues. Two hubs, working in sync, would really help in that sort of case. "Seeing the Phillips Hue stuff working within the Aqara app": I'll admit, this is gob smacking. I've avoided Hue products and probably will continue to do so, but taking the effort to make sure even this works bodes well when it comes to working with other typically anti-social brands. Here's hoping. "I don't think we'll ever do away with Home Assistant because it's a tinkerer's dream.": Exactly so. I'm currently running Home Assistant as my control and automation interface with Hubitat running as my connection tool. (For the same reasons you've already put in a previous video.) This would go a long way to taking over that second role while adding a number of other desirable features (and allowing me to bin the up-until-now necessary Broadcom unit.) I still have a few Z-Wave devices though. Thanks as always for the "What's wrong with it?" section. I too hope that Aqara will expose the remotes to Home Assistant. That would be fantastic. This is a great review on a very innovative product. If folks like Aqara keep working on it, Matter may just live up to a lot of the hype. See you next Saturday.

@paulhibbert Ай бұрын

Thanks as always Russell! Yeah, it still can’t connect directly to other manufacturers Zigbee products, hence Hue has to work via their hub using Matter. Aqara have plans to open up the infrared implementation, and the matter devices list grew vastly just this morning I’m told. Just no plans to start writing Zigbee drivers for other brands sadly

@timallen4827 Ай бұрын

Hi awesome video but I was wondering how you felt this hub compares to the LinknLink Super Gateway? Thanks

@jbidlack Ай бұрын

What a great concept - Went to Amazon to see the price and was kind of shocked to see it's got 1.3 stars out of 5. Scrolled all these YT reviews with no mention of the same issues. Most of the Amazon reviewers are suggesting that the Aqara P2 door and window sensors are not able to activate the M3 hub alarm. Is this just a huge mistake on their part with a fix to be pushed to all current M3 when they fix it?

@adrianhardcastle9297 11 күн бұрын

Ha Ha, Immediately after he says put Google in the bin it cuts to a Google ad, I don’t know whether that’s genius or bad timing! 😂

@paulhibbert 11 күн бұрын

🤣

@olestampevestergaard4746 Ай бұрын

Oh man I hope it doesn't make home assistant redundant, since ordered the linknlink isg from a couple of videos ago

@doshiempiresandpuzzles8822 Ай бұрын

I wish I had the time to devote to understand Home Assistant but this looks like a path that I can grasp a bit quicker. Thanks for the video

@trumpdrago517 Ай бұрын

If you bring in a zigbee sensor would Aqara feed that to HomeKit?

@davisfearon4225 Ай бұрын

Hey huge fan here watch you every week hopeing you can help me understand this thing a little better so if I have a bunch of zigbee and matter smart home stuff do I need to connect them all to this hub through the app for local no internet control or because it's on my network and has all the different antennas will it just allow for local control of my devices when my internet goes out even if there not all connected through the aqara app for examples I have hue lights - switchbot curtains, plugs and lock pro and third reality motion sencors thanks in advance for any clarity you can provide me

@LikelyLagging Ай бұрын

I want to start a smart home consulting/installation business but I don’t know enough about home assistant and I feel like not offering it as a solution is incredibly dumb. Do you have a recommendation on where to learn up on it? Or maybe a video diving into the basics?? Id watch the shit out of that :) great video as always. Best damn tech channel on the interwebs

@Haggisstv Ай бұрын

Loved you on euro song contest singing for Latvia 😂

@paulhibbert Ай бұрын

Thanks man, I didn’t feel it was my best performance, but I’m proud I got there

@davidw717 Ай бұрын

Afternoon Paul, great video as always, absolutely love your movie cutscenes nice touch of pop culture. It would be great if you could review this Aqara against the Homey Pro, as im on the fence about buying it, it has all kinds of tech in it and the visual builder looks amazing. Whats your thoughts? 🤔

@paulhibbert Ай бұрын

Personally the homey pro is too expensive for a company I lost faith in. In the early days of my channel they sent me one and a week later dropped support for my home easy rf light switches. When I contacted them the support guy was belligerent. He should not have been in customer service, he was blunt and generally didn’t care. When I spoke to the director he laughed about the situation and told me that was just the way it was. A few months ago he wrote to me with an entirely different attitude, now that I’m “famous” all of a sudden he cares what I think. I’m just totally turned off by their attitude to what it will and won’t support, and how they view their customers.

@shaygus Ай бұрын

Sensibo have been doing the IR remote trick for almost 10 years now, around 5 of the just like you showed with Home Assistant. I believe that Tuya has something similar but probably hundreds of times less reliable. I The real trick here I think is the locality, if the IR blaster an receiver is actually local this is actually a terrific thing. I'm a bit in doubt regarding this specific thing, because I know quite a bit about how AC codes work.

@user-ec6vp8kw3q Ай бұрын

I have Sensibo and yeah it does that thing, I also have the same AC as shown. But the thing that will never be able to stay in sync is that if your remote is in cooling mode 24C fan high, and you change in home assistant to other settings, your remote is now lying to you. Similar to how if you block the IR on the remote and press buttons it might show different settings to what the unit is actually set to. IR is just bad, so if you are getting a new AC you want to know exactly what the unit is set to and change it you need a "smart AC" on wifi or something.

@pimw9805 Ай бұрын

This looks very interesting! Success as an universal hub wil lagerly depend on proper zigbee integration. It would be a big missed opportunity if they don't support Philips Hue devices natively during commercial release.

@paulhibbert Ай бұрын

I agree, LinknLink are the only mainstream manufacturer attempting this with their ISG, but as a heavy aqara user that loves their interface it really is a 50/50 split for me

@Toteniuz Ай бұрын

I can't believe you lost your hair back in 1955. But seeing as you had long, blonde hair back in 1912, it does make sense.

@mwright154 Ай бұрын

Hi, currently have a mix of shelly/tuya/sonos/ecobee/lifx/Bluetooth ceiling fans. If I get this will every device need to be reset and re-paired with this device? Also what do schedules and scenes look like in the app? Thanks!

@PghFlip Ай бұрын

Wow! seems almost too good to be true. looking forward to seeing how this develops. (Hope they take some of your suggestions!)

@persorensen9101 Ай бұрын

Hello Paul Long time fan of Your KZfaq channel (keep up the good work) DO You have any idea if the AQARA M3 HUB will be compatible with NEDIS (SMARTLIFE) devices? Greetings from Denmark

@paulhibbert Ай бұрын

Sadly not dude, they have no integration for smart life products yet, unless they are matter enabled

@JustinHughesRoberts Ай бұрын

You got a like just for your cameo in Back to the future!

@PierreLeroy76620 Ай бұрын

It's really nice product. I don't know if I'm going to buy it... I'm in the home assistant rabbit hole.

@Jonathannew-cp7fj Ай бұрын

Funniest episode EVERRRRRR😂 (but where was the nice Lady telling us 'it just works'!) 😂😂

@norfolkngood8960 Ай бұрын

She's busy out shilling her new book

@biggusdickus5986 Ай бұрын

No don't encourage that back it enrages me inordinately

@TheRealXyzven Ай бұрын

Holy crap Paul, I thought you said my name again! 🤣

@gerhardroux1585 Ай бұрын

"Bite your tongue heathen! "The home assistant fan reply to the title.

@paulhibbert Ай бұрын

🤣 I hump the air in your general direction

@gerhardroux1585 Ай бұрын

@@paulhibbert Oh behave. 😂

@Vectorr66 Ай бұрын

This is really cool, curious though why would it not offer it's own GUI? I just want a simple option vs spending hours with HA.

@michelrail Ай бұрын

Hi Paul, sorry for the stupid question. Will/Should my Tuya devices integrate with the M3 Hub? i.e. my garage door opener and my light switches?

@SamPhoenix_ Ай бұрын

I was on the fence about getting this hub... But damn I think I might have to. Now all they need to do is release a stupid sexy cat version.

@kenneth_jensen Ай бұрын

But Sonoff's Zigbee bridge supports Thread, so you add Matter products directly to HA. But what a great product from Aqura. Oh and take a look at Homey 😉

@matt-ro6ll Ай бұрын

Is it right that Aqara limit the Zigbee to only work with Aqara Zigbee devices on this hub?

@kenneth_jensen 17 күн бұрын

Great hub. But Homey have been able to do all of that for years. Please give it a try 😉

@0wnage718 Ай бұрын

Hey Paul, the backup feature is such a good idea having 2 hubs rules out a single point of failure, with regards to this if for instance “asking for a friend” if a device was out of range of the hub on the ground floor but was close to a hub in the loft would it work via the one in range?

@renedevrind1733 Ай бұрын

Paul, are you still using your ConBee II stick now that you' re using the Aquara M3 Hub?

@PabloTBrave Ай бұрын

Excellent device as Privacy is very important to me any video produced in my bedrooms shoudl sold on only fans and not given /sold /used by home automation, big tech companies .

@dc857 16 күн бұрын

You hit the achilles heel for me when you mentioned Zigbee 'workaround'. I have a Sonoff Zigbee 3.0 dongle and it can control Philips Hues. This seems like a pretty big blackhole for the Aqara hub not to be able to properly control Zigbee.

@cameron11888 Ай бұрын

Does anyone know whether this hub will be able to do routines Using the energy monitoring Data from a plug? thx

@DerekMatthews Ай бұрын

So if I get this does it replace alexa? Because it's local ??

@rownakulhaque7946 Ай бұрын

9:02 lol! I've been using this for several years now in Home assistant. You have to say that you're backdated. Home Assistant will never become obsolete!

@st1flersteve Ай бұрын

I always giggle at your vids, I just bought one with your link. I was just wondering what matter bulbs work with the hub, also is there a list of matter products they are supporting.

@gordon861 7 күн бұрын

So what we need now is an Aqara M3 HA edition, with Home Assistant built in to the hardware.

@ipon70 Ай бұрын

The blurry square in the middle was weird at 10:33 and stopped at 11:19.

@john_hind Ай бұрын

I'm looking for a replacement for using Amazon Alexa devices as my Zigbee hub. Does this support non-Aqara Zigbee devices and if Alexa supports a Zigbee device can I rely on Aqara M3 Hub also supporting it? I'm mostly talking about smart bulbs and smart sockets from Ikea.

@zephsmith3499 Ай бұрын

It seems unlikely that the hub could track every IR command in many situations (eg: the hub can't be visible to every IR receiver if you have multiple). If it misses a command (or catches on which the device IR receiver misses), then toggles (on/off) and incremental changes (up/down) will get out of sync and stay that way. So I presume there must be an easy way to resynchronize state between the actual state of a device, and the state simulated by Aquara (and passed to HA). I hope.

@chrisw1462 Ай бұрын

@2:50 Gotta love your hand in front of the light you're trying to demonstrate...

@asteriskesque 23 күн бұрын

Is it possible to teach this hub custom IR commands? It would be great if I could add my TV and other old school IR devices, but the ability to add IR commands manually would be a workaround. A very time consuming but functional workaround. This hub does look like it could be great!

@faengelm Ай бұрын

Is there a way for the IR receiver function to trigger an automation when an IR Remote button is pushed?

@videolan Ай бұрын

Are you the only person who thinks that the M3 is ready for mainstream? Other reviewers seem to think it's a great product that's not ready software wise yet!

@paulhibbert Ай бұрын

Until literally this morning only Philips Hue was available as a 3rd party matter device, so maybe that’s the beef the other reviewers had with it. I’ve had a slight issue with the temperature of my air con being out of sync with reality but only for certain digits, and I have aqara looking into that, but aside from that no issues!

@marktime61 Ай бұрын

Yes your commentary implies not out for 3 months yet its on Amazon UK for immediate delivery

@jordaynerjr Ай бұрын

@@marktime61he said at the time of filming meaning he had it early

@JoshFisher567 Ай бұрын

One issue with Matter and Thread is that new devices can often set up their own Thread network instead of joining an existing one. This makes Thread's shared mesh network, which is designed to be self-healing, less useful unless you use a manufacturer's border router. It's also difficult to buy smart speakers, routers, TVs, and fridges from the same company.

@AlexManMe Ай бұрын

@@paulhibbert does this mean you can use other manufacturer sensors in their security alarm system?

@aaryanpour Ай бұрын

Since when he started to add movie clips into his videos. These are brilliant, loved them. Yes I know been away a while, stop sending eyebrows to space 🤣🤣🤣

@paulhibbert Ай бұрын

It’s my new favourite thing to do! 😁

@aaryanpour Ай бұрын

@@paulhibbert it is brilliant, keep it going mate. Like the other chap said , your comic genius is wasted on home assistant and Zigbees .... Oh zigbeeee 😭😭😭

@idontwantachannelimjustcom7745 Ай бұрын

Do they make a seperate microphone and maybe an ir relay? Use your remote to turn on the microphone, talk, then use the remote to turn off power to the remote. This way you know when it gets turned on and off.

@simonking6983 Ай бұрын

Paul, another great video, thanks! Again you’re ruining the memories we have of the icons of cinema! I have Question though for this hub. If we want it to work with the varieties of remote controls we have around the house would we need to have a hub in each room to be able to control said rooms remote options?

@cdarrigo Ай бұрын

If it was going to be the central hub, doesn't it also need to control Z-Wave devices? I've got a bunch of ring sensors that I would like to integrate into automations

@sgtvash23241 Ай бұрын

@paulhibbert I’ve got the M3 and I have an IR air conditioner setup. How did you get the air conditioner to show up in home assistant like you had in the video? I’d prefer to use the m3 as my bridge device to home assistant and run automations there. I have the m3 connected to HA via Matter and all I can see are the temp sensors I’ve installed. Thanks for the great video, and the coupon code was nice!

@Raytenecks Ай бұрын

So, the IR Blaster only works in the room with the hub? Is there an addon IR Blaster for other rooms?

@fernandopenah Ай бұрын

It’s not so much about the hardware but the software, and HA has quite the head start that other solutions are always going to look half baked until they catch up.

@DustStormPettigrew Ай бұрын

So, noticed no Z-wave mentioned. Do we still have to use Z-Wave with Home Assistant then?

@metoo7587 22 күн бұрын

IR is fine, but what about 433MHz RF remotes? You must have a ton of those lying around - i.e. for ceiling fan control?

@SneakieGargamel Ай бұрын

Fun that its running locally, but since the code is not open-source we do not no what its doing on the background. So if you care about privacy its not a HA rival in any way

@sshethuk Ай бұрын

Probably the solar flares, but you've got a strange blur thing going on from 10:35. I'm definitely one of those people who would be tempted away from home assistant. Although I do love my Google 😂