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Is the stack Home Assistant, ComBee II with Aqara, Ikea, Mijia (option Home assistant) makes sense? (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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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’ve been using HA for a long time. I love that it is capable of aggregating all the data sources and orchestrating all the different sensors that are on the market. I haven’t used everything below, but I have used a lot of it and can give some pointers.

Instead of a Conbee II I would suggest the Sonoff Dongle. I reached a point when I had a lot of devices that the conbee couldn’t quite keep up.

I have smart bulbs from ikea, innr, linkind, Aldi. They all paired to the zigbee mesh pretty well. I also had some Osram ones that didn’t behave as relays so I took them out.

The BT sensors look nice, and I believe they integrate with HA well, but your HA needs to be in BT range for them to be able to communicate. You could also look at the Sonoff environment sensors. I use these tucked away in different rooms and they are great.

Cameras, the general advice is to make sure they support RTSP and ONVIF, with brands being Hikvision, Dahua or Amcrest. Everyone will say you should feed your cameras into a Network recorder first, with options often recommended being BlueIris, Frigate. I use Frigate.

Feel free to ask any follow up questions, I’ll do my best to guide.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

agreed conbee 2 is old tech, no use going that route these days

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Adding to the chorus of voices telling you to get a Sonoff stick.

The Conbee II is very old at this point and shouldn’t be used for new setups.