Aqara M2 hub

Yea you need neutral ones. My home has mainly Aqara stuff and i was using the M2 hub with no issues but recently i moved to Z2M and Sonoff dongle also added some sonoff and tuya stuff, and i realize that the aqara sensors waited for the switch that was a router closest to them to regain power (tested with power loss) instead of connecting to a router from a different brand. Sonoff stuff worked fine with Aqara but i had some disconnection issues with the Tuya ones, had to pair them to my coordinator.

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… spent days troubleshooting my network as well. Migrating to z2m. Changing zigbee channels. Pairing devices multiple times. Eventually I just bought an Aqara M2 hub. It connects locally to home assistant via homekit integration and has been flawless.

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I've got probably 120 generic zigbee devices and 80 aqara sensors. I have an ethernet connected smlight zigbee dongle located centrally in my house. I still use the aqara m2 hub for my aqara devices though. It's quicker to pair, doesn't disconnect with devices randomly, and there's no delay with the homekit integration. I've got the m2 wired via poe using a poe splitter. Works really well without a hiccup. When trying to pair these devices to my regular zigbee network it felt like devices were always dropping off. The hub solved that. The M3 has more support for matter devices but it's not …

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