Aqara Hub M2 vs Philips Hue Bridge

What owners say

Owners of both hubs say the same thing about their reason to exist: each one makes its own family of devices behave far better than a generic setup. Aqara Hub M2 owners say Aqara sensors that dropped offline on a generic Zigbee stick became stable, value the IR blaster for a TV or air conditioner and years of steady service, and complain that HomeKit shows the hub as a Security System, that some units go offline and that changing the Wi-Fi network means re-pairing every child device. Philips Hue Bridge owners describe years without failed bulbs, fast whole-house response, scenes, entertainment sync and away-from-home control, and complain about the premium price, the 50 device ceiling, lights far from the hub dropping out and the odd setup that will not find the bridge.