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New leak sensors that don’t take magic incantations to connect when?
Sad, all they tried was bring some magic to the people and teach them basic spells and all we do is complain… When the dark lord attacks and none of us know any spells we’re screwed
I have zwave water detectors that are pretty easy to pair. The only problem is that every time they reset, they trigger an alarm event. Fortunately, this only happens when I upgrade zwavejs, or change the batteries, so the false positives are not random. Still, it’s a weird design decision.
What brand and model are those? I have a Z-wave radio on my HA.
Zooz 800 ZSE42 800LR. $30, the coin battery lasts about a year IME.
Oh nice, I think HA radio is from Zooz.
It’s very important to note that this is not the entire brand joining, this is three specific products which already use Matter over Thread and thus would be interoperable anyway.
Still a win for Home Assistant to have a big brand like Aqara want to play ball at all.
if they are supporting the current Matter/Thread devices hopefully they will do the same for future devices, especially (if and) when they start to deprecate their Zigbee devices.
Oh yes for sure. Wasn’t saying otherwise. Was only pointing out the details because the way the program worked previously, it was kind of an all or nothing thing. And thus, Aqara joining could be taken as a sign that they are going to make everything completely open and interoperable and work perfectly directly with HA. I don’t think that’s the case.
This is still a very important step. Open standards may be the most important part of home automation, but the second most important part might well be respect. Go back just a year or two and HA and open source in general were basically ignored in the market. Now things are changing.
Every company that partners with HA further cements HA and open standards in general as a legitimate / major player in the automation market that manufacturers ignore at their own peril. The more that happens, the more products will be developed with open standards in mind.
siiiiiick Aqara is always one of my top choices
This is awesome news. :)
That’s great. I recently got a pet feeder from them. My main criteria was that it works with ZigBee and home assistant.
Every other I have tried ends up failing with communication with their back ends, inevitably leading to a piece of unmaintainable trash.
Aqara worked immediately out of the box. Connected to my home assistant within minutes.
