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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] 5 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.