Aqara M3 Hub - The NEW BRAIN for my Smart Home?

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Aqara Hub M3 - geni.us/AqaraM3SmartHub (Found a 20% discount code - HUBM3UK1)
Today I take a look at the Aqara M3 Hub, their newest smart home hub with support for thread, zigbee, matter and all manner of other protocols!
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Комментарии : 42

@joewhite4564 Месяц назад

Finally, a review that does not come off as just a prolonged ad. Thanks!

@dab42bridges80 Месяц назад

It's Mind over Matter, Aqara don't Mind and you don't Matter...

@jongmans38 Месяц назад

Buy a product on what functions it has, not on what it promises in the future. Golden Rule...

@StusReviewsUK Месяц назад

Absolutely fair point.

@gedgicat2063 Месяц назад

I've been looking forward to this hub since CES, but my order is on hold for 6 to 12 months by the sounds of things 😥

@ABC589 Месяц назад

So true. You can buy for any feature that is upcoming *HOWEVER* you should make sure you feel like you get a good value from the functionality it happens to have when you purchase it.

@waynemoate9401 Месяц назад

Matter is for live not just for Christmas. On a serious note i want one hub, gadgets from Aqara, Nanoleaf and Tapo and them all to work as one. Presently i have Alexa, Hubitat and Matter via Eero Wi Fi

@seraphuziel Месяц назад

This will help me divest from Amazon alexa, before they start charging.

@StusReviewsUK Месяц назад

God help us all when that day comes 👁👄👁

@meyerwhite1427 12 дней назад

Just bought one… mainly because there was no way to get Aqara’s own wireless rocker switches to simply turn on or off my garden wifi lights connected to Smart Life… and there still isn’t. Alexa doesn’t support aqaras wireless battery switches, so that doesn’t work. IFTTT can see the switches - but I have two locations set up in Smart Life - home and Work. For some reason, IFTTT only shows the devices at work and offers no way to switch this to home. In this day and age, something as simple as having a bloody wireless battery switch be able to turn on and off a flippin’ wifi light is near impossible. That’s messed up.

@garyhenderson9303 Месяц назад

One thing no one is talking about is the WiFi standard this supports its only WiFi 5. The recent camera had WiFi 6 which they made clear on their page. This HUB I could only find reference in the .pdf User Manual which states its a 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac which translates to WiFi 5. I want to use Matter over thread plus Zigbee for my smart home, but my whole network is going to WiFi 7 this summer, this is disappointing that a new HUB is two generations behind in its Protocol support.

@Badonicus Месяц назад

Howdy ho. I have a few Aqara Blind shutters. They are a pricey brand though.

@StusReviewsUK Месяц назад

Depends what you’re looking at- a lot of the smaller sensors are extremely well priced!

@CarlRyds Месяц назад

I'm sorry £130, I was expecting £99 tops since the M2 is £55 (£46 on sale). If it could take Zigbee devices from ANY manufacture, like IKEA (without a Philips Hue Hub), then maybe but as it is, it’s far too expensive in my eyes. I was hoping to ditch my IKEA hub and have everything run through one hub, the limited third-party Matter support is laughable for the price. It's a VERY disappointing product.

@leosedf Месяц назад

is it compatible with home assistant?

@fightwinprevail Месяц назад

Off topic but where might one get themselves one of those spiffing waistcoats?

@StusReviewsUK Месяц назад

You’re the second person to ask this question this week! It’s actually a custom piece of my own design, made by an independent moleskin clothing tailor here in the uk.

@fightwinprevail Месяц назад

@@StusReviewsUK really nice work!

@Dexmo Месяц назад

I just orded one. Side note, How are the temp sensors holding up battery wise?

@StusReviewsUK Месяц назад

They haven’t run out yet 🤞

@radry100 Месяц назад

Wait you have to pay for an software upgrade to use it as "base" for other hubs or did I mistunderstand this?

@StusReviewsUK Месяц назад

Misunderstood - it acts like that out of the box (no extra software needed) 👍

@thebrentfamily7602 Месяц назад

Okay... Did you fake the whiskey automation? If not what pressure sensor are you using for that because I want to know

@StusReviewsUK Месяц назад

Haha, yes it was indeed simulated… but if I wanted to I could use an fp2 sensor to trigger an alarm if it detects someone in the vicinity of my whisky 👀👀👀

@RiceEater483 Месяц назад

It sounds like it could be a great Smart Home Hub....in 2025, maybe 2026. But definitely not right now or the rest of the year. For now it's just a really expensive Aqara Hub. Maybe worth the upgrade for some Aqara users. But definitely not a Home Assistant, Homey Pro, or Hubitat competitor. Not yet at least.

@StevePhilpott 7 дней назад

I bought one and it will not pair with my IR fans. No fix from support so far. Very disappointed.

@2377shortie Месяц назад

My experience with aqara is very hit and miss. The temperature sensors are great. The fp2 didn't work for me. To much ghosting. Motion sensor has a mind of its own. Sometimes it stays on when I'm in the room other times it will turn off after 5 seconds even though it's set for 5 minutes.

@kwanizac Месяц назад

Has it been 6 months yet?

@StusReviewsUK Месяц назад

its been 20 days... 👀 That said, they have increased support quite significantly - www.reddit.com/r/Aqara/comments/1cpi1aw/official_ama_aqara_m3_thirdparty_device_support/

@RodrigoBarbosaPhotographer Месяц назад

Sadly no Z-Wave, will keep my m2 running parallel to hubittat for now.

@AndrewDee Месяц назад

Who needs z wave in 2024

@Bigglare Месяц назад

Hue is an excellent Matter bridge for Zigbee 3.0 devices. You can bridge any zigbee 3.0 light or plug to Matter to use with Apple, Amazon, Google, Smartthings, Third Reality, even Home assistant. And does it all locally. Oh wait, this is another proprietary Aqara hub that only works with Aqara's zigbee devices. Sounds like this is a solid skip.

@garethjones5068 Месяц назад

So close, yet so far 😒

@joseg.5937 Месяц назад

This defeats the purpose of Matter and Tread logo as it leave it to customers to know if it will work or not

@garyhenderson9303 Месяц назад

This was the Smart Home product I was most looking forward to in 2024. But as with the recent Alexa HUB the launched product does not deliver what I expected. To much focus on what it can do if the Internet goes down, who cares I do not live in a cave and cannot remember having ever lost the Internet, unless the power is off in town in which case nothing works. At twice the price of the M2 it seems we have an early access product here and hopefully the M4 will deliver what I expected from the M3.

@chrisedwards5447 Месяц назад

Bro that echo hub pissed me off so bad. They could’ve easily pushed that dashboard out as a software update to all echo shows and tablets. But no let’s make our customers pay an additional $180.

@StusReviewsUK Месяц назад

@chrisedwards5447 it was appalling

@anony-mousex Месяц назад

We should be moving away from the nightmare of third party hubs and the problems they bring, not to mention the security risk factors

@StusReviewsUK Месяц назад

What would you consider a first party hub? 👀

@anony-mousex Месяц назад

@@StusReviewsUK Apple HomeKit where the same devices you use can be also used as 'the hub' - I dont need some Chinese made hub to do all the brain work and also sell my data, no thanks!

@AndrewDee Месяц назад

Actually M3 is a first party hub 😅

@anony-mousex Месяц назад

@@AndrewDee To homekit? No