Hi,
I’ve not open a support ticket yet because I’m not pretty sure it’s an allowed scenario. I cannot pair the Aqara TVOC sensor with the ZBBridge Pro. The TVOC sensor works fine if paired with the M2 hub from Aqara and other Sonoff devices works fine with the ZBBridge, but it seems there is no way the get them work together. Do you know if they are compatible or do you havy any suggestion?
It doesn’t. As most devices from (Xiao)Mi/Lumi, TVOC follows that fashion. In ZHA, there are so called quirks to have those devices handled. In eWeLink, there’s only hope that someday and maybe… .
Cookie note for today would be - some air quality sensors can expose temperature/humidity readings to iHost like IKEA VINDSTYRKA; Aqara has modified too much from the standard Zigbee 3.0 spec for this sensor, you may find it hard to add it to any other Zigbee gateways
yes I know I even have Aqara’s hub, but HA does not have matter bridge, I plan to move things to Alexa and Smartthings, which would be a big issue if I don’t wanna pay another subscription.
You can add a bridge to Home Assistant. As far as sharing is concerned, it is possible to share a device across platforms.
In overall, Matter is a vastly overrated and still underdeveloped project. The beautiful idea of all-embracing interoperability somehow strangely fails to deliver more than Zigbee. Thread devices on the market use Thread for radio communication and Matter as a control protocol. But this is not guaranteed. Some Thread-based devices support only Apple HomeKit or another vendor-specific communication protocol. There is nothing to get excited about.