No it wont, but if youre running 2 seperate zigbee networks its probably going to interfere, i suggest selling off the M2 and switch to Z2M fulltime when you do decide to get other brand zigbee stuff until then just continue getting Aqara stuff i guess, i did that. I used to use the M2 with that same integration also, also had Hue hub and then sold all the hubs and just change to Z2M. And regarding not getting certain status usually the homekit integration is the one that will report less stuff.

What do you mean by that? Any ethernet cable (just get CAT 6/6A) can carry power, the POE portion is sent by yours network switch.

Tuya is usually mentioned mainly because its the cheapest and most commonly found.

There some of the stuff exposed for some of my devices with Z2M

https://imgur.com/a/GAAJVSP

You can also use this site https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io/supported-devices/ to check what is supported and what it exposes.

You need both sides to handshake so its not gonna send more power than the device that asks for it.

With cameras in the rain, the camera is usually screwed into a small box where the wires are all located, with the box being attached to the wall. So rain aint getting it, and you can further weatherproof that. Camera itself aint the issue with the weather its just where the power connects to the camera, as long as that is weatherproofed you should be fine.

So Frigate inside of a HA VM? Not really advisable unless youre allocating a lot of resources to that. Maybe HA in bare metal with Frigate as a container then sure, better to have iGPU support really helps.

What do you mean by that yea? In HA what does it show?

In Z2M this is what mine looks like.

Yea thats me also LUL

No idea about your last question.

https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io/devices/QBKG26LM.html

If not there i dont see how you can

All wifi CCTV? Damn

Maybe create a SSID with just 2.4GHz for the CCTV put it on different channel. Other devices connect to a new SSID with both 2.4GHz and 5GHz.

Youtube has loads of tutorials. First decide on the always on device you want to have HA on, are you gonna just focus on HA or self hosting other things as well? So that will affect your choice for HA installation. Easiest for sure is HA OS it self rather than in a VM or Container. Then decide a Zigbee coordinator you wanna get, i have the Sonoff Dongle E so that works with zigbee (and technically it can also do thread but my setup its zigbee only). Tbh everything is on youtube, like people showing you how to install what devices to get, how to pair devices ideally etc.

Just so happens one of the creators i do watch uploaded a guide recently https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4gvkmJ8q48

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1. You can use any cheap mini PC (old intel NUCs etc), people aim for power efficiency here since its 24/7 on.

2. Thread is not really "better" than Zigbee, its pretty much the same BUT they are trying to standardize with Matter. The thing is those are all radio waves, so usually there isnt any device that has compatibility for all types of protocols. You will see way more Zigbee products on the market hence why i would still recommend them, and since HA is what youre interested in, shouldnt even really care about "matter" because HA accepts pretty much everything. There are devices that do both thread and zigbee (Dongle E) again a thing to consider is that, you should commit to one over the other, your dongle sends and receives data but your devices like switches bulbs relays or whatever youre planning on getting need to also relay the signal to the next device and so on. Zwave pretty much forget about it larh, MY market penetration is super low and devices are usually much more expensive.

3. HA (ignore "Green" thats just the physical device) is the brains of everything, everything should go to it and if you want to use other platforms, it should come out from it. So my case, i have HA, everything goes into it, zigbee wifi stuff, energy meter readings etc BUT i use Homekit Home app to interface with the switches, so i set it up on HA to bridge stuff into Homekit. I have also done the same for Alexa because i have their speakers just for announcements but i bridges the switches etc there as well just in case someone wants to say Alexa turn on this or whatever. So usually Echo is supposed to be the brains of an Alexa home (with Amazon cloud doing heavy lifting) BUT in homes of people that have HA, its merely a device to interface with the switches or devices that are already in HA if you get what i mean.

1. Any cheap mini PC will do, Intel Nuc or those Lenovo Dell HP low powered PCs, you can look up their power usage online.
2. A lot of people do use Sonoff Dongle P and Dongle E. Idk about best but a lot of people also recommend "SMLIGHT Zigbee 3.0 to Ethernet, USB, and WiFi Adapter with PoE Support".
3. For me Echo is still good value unless you want to build something on your own.
4. Homekit was just an example, you can replace that with any other platform also Samsung SmartThings, Google Home, Alexa etc. You dont have to use any of them if you dont want.
5. I said that because most of the stuff still sold online is zigbee and wifi based, thread still hasnt been quickly adopted by the masses.
6. Thread Zigbee etc is like your wifi, you are connected to your router only (your Sonoff Dongle or whatever you use).


Like i said larh, everything is online easy to find, all this info aint obscure

For number one usually wont really ever need to repair larh eventually they will get back onto the zigbee mesh on their own.

And zigbee is local, so as long as youre using either Home Assistant or Homekit to interface with the devices there should be no lag at all. But if youre using the Aqara Home app then only the region might come into play. Most of my Aqara stuff are from China, back when i was using the M2 hub i did use the CN region to set up everything.

the matter support is for it to be adopted to other platforms not other stuff into it if you get what i am saying.

I am using a zigbee doorbell sensor and it works well.

That looks more suitable for apartment style where its not exposed to the elements, mine is zigbee doorbell sensor that senses the button press of a traditional doorbell.

Yep sage one, works with Z2M and HA. I had some extra units which i did list on carousell, did sell one to HA FB user, works for his setup as well.

I think the product is actually discontinued, no point getting a hub that was specific to that. For Z2M ZHA users this is an option if wanna use traditional doorbell.

Those are very leceh yea sometimes you wont have enough space in the box to fit that, or fit multiple, and if for some reason you need to reset it ....pain in the ass larh open up everything again.