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?
+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.
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.
