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

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by hikarulsi@lemmy.world to c/homeassistant@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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[–] swm5126@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

+1 for the Sonoff dongle. I have mine running zigbee2mqtt on a RPi separate from my HA server (more centralized location). Integrates into HA really well and I never have issues with it.