Aqara increases the commitment of the subject with additional support of the device and cross platform tools

The specialist in the Chinese intelligent home Aqara, despite building his early success in Zigbee, has been one of the greatest defenders of the matter in recent years.

And it has further increased the efforts of its smart home by expanding its support for more than 50 types of devices compatible with matter, as well as making it much easier to make its devices aqara sing and dance within other platforms of matter.

Starting with the new device types and aqara now supports a whole bunch of the categories that were introduced by the csa in the matter 1.2, 1.3 and 1.4 updates, including – deep breath – robot vacuums, smoke and co alarm, air qualyt sensors, leak, freeze, and rain sensors, Curtains and Shades, Fans and Air Purifiers, Air Conditions and Heat Pumps, Water Valves and Pumps, Pressure Sensors, Solar Panels and Battery Storage, Vehicle loaders, washing machines and dryers, refrigerators, stoves, hoods and surfaces, ovens and stoves, water heaters and videos and speakers.

For my accounts, and it is difficult to establish this properly, since it is almost impossible to follow up. I think it makes aqara one of, if not he More complete backbones for a matter system. Only smartthings and possibly assistant of origin can match, or approach, in terms of the number of types of admitted devices.

In addition, Aqara makes it possible for these types of devices to work within other ecosystems that still do not admit them, through the Advanced Matter Bridge function.

This feature, which was originally introduced with the AQARA Hub M3 but is now being implemented on the Aqara Matter Hub board, allows you to transfer automation and triggers from its home system AQARA Smart Home, to other subject platforms.

With those types of devices even in mind, therefore, you can create a virtual switch to start a robot vacuum and have it as part of a routine in a Google Home Matter configuration.

Increasing more advanced, it could have triggers of recognition and movement of the new camera Aqara Camera Hub G5 Pro, acting as initiators for subsequent actions in other subject configurations, or even having levels of energy consumption, monitored through the AQara automation engine, trigger routines in those configurations as well.

Aqara calls these scenes and signs and tell us that they will appear in Apple Home, Smartthings and Alexa as virtual plugs and occupation sensors.

As mentioned, it is not only the M3 that offers these bells and supplies of additional matter bridge; The tastes of the Hub G5 Pro, M100, Toilebell Camera G410, M2, M1S (both gens), E1 and Camera Hub G3 are also getting involved.

You should simply update your firmware to the latest version 4.3.4 and make sure your application is 5.1.4 or newer.

But that is not all when it comes to the cross -matter action, since Aqara also announced that it is optimizing its border routers of subprocesses to admit the exchange of sub -process networks, which means that they can join other wire networks of other ecosystems, and that their border routers can also communicate through different LANs.

The thing with the subject is that, as I wrote in an opinion article in January, it is now depending on the brands to take advantage of the construction blocks that the application layer provides.

Aqara is clearly aboard this mission and, when I asked the CSA technology chief, Chris Lapré, if I expected Aqara’s movements to inspire other brands to increase their matters of matter, said: “That is a very easy answer … yes.”

The CSA needs marks to adopt and deploy matter in its complete abilities; He is still a bit messy and far from the intelligent domestic system without seams that we all imagine when Project Chip began to reach the headlines a few years ago.

But they are movements like this one of Aqara that will help maintain the impulse and take the platform to a place where it must be.