
CES 2025: Screens, switches and hubs dominate Aqara’s Vegas launch-fest
Aqara has, because it all the time does, used CES to formally announce a complete bunch of latest package – together with some swanky new additions for vying in your wall area.
I say “new”, however among the devices in Aqara’s CES 2025 launch line-up are already out there in different territories, however they’re all new for the US and there are a few real model new showstoppers.
Probably the most notable of which is the Aqara Panel Hub S1 Plus (predominant picture, above). The S1 Plus is a 6.9-inch touchscreen sensible house hub designed to tackle the likes of the Amazon Echo Hub, or higher-end management panels from the likes of Control4 or Crestron.
It’s considerably of a direct rival to the likes of the Sensible Panel as effectively, as it’s powered instantly from a light-weight change’s present wires.
It’s truly able to controlling a few dumb lights which are related to the change wires, and helps MARS Tech’s Sensible Load mode, which means wi-fi management of Aqara sensible lights, with fixed energy to the sunshine circuit.
Boasting dual-band WiFi and doubling as a Zigbee hub and Matter bridge, it could deal with every little thing from stay digital camera feeds to thermostat changes and customers can personalize themes, dashboards, and widgets, or add household photographs to show.
Aqara has additionally used CES 2025 to spill the beans on its newest PIR and mmWave sensible sensor.
The Aqara Presence Multi-Sensor FP300, not like the FP2 and FP1E fashions which have come earlier than it, doesn’t have to be plugged in; it’s battery powered.
Like that duo it merges PIR and mmWave sensing for tremendous precision in human detection, making it an important instrument for vitality effectivity, safety and residential automation.
One other notable Aqara CES launch is the Doorbell Digital camera Hub G410, which isn’t a sensible video doorbell, but in addition – because the title suggests – a sensible house hub too.

Aqara has a historical past of constructing its sensible safety cameras double up as hubs however that is the primary time we’ve seen the performance prolonged to a doorbell… from anybody in reality.
And the excellent news is that it’s not simply an Aqara hub, for controlling Zigbee Aqara little one units, it’s – just like the Aqara Hub M3 – additionally a Matter controller too.
Additionally on the hub entrance is the brand new Hub M100 a brand new compact, entry-level Matter controller, enabling assist for each Aqara and third-party units, and it’s additionally a Thread border router as effectively.

Additionally in search of some wall area is the US model of a tool we’ve seen in China earlier than: the Touchscreen Dial V1 US, a compact rotary dial with haptic suggestions for exact management over lighting, curtains, and thermostats.

Just like the Aqara S100 US (above), one other CES launch system we’ve seen a Chinese language variant of, the V1 makes use of present mild change wires for its energy, as do the US variations of the Mild Change H2 and Dimmer Change H2 switches.
There’s additionally the Local weather Sensor W100, which delivers real-time indoor local weather monitoring with a show and intuitive controls.
All of this new Aqara gear is about to launch within the coming months, with EU availability prone to land earlier than the US will get in on the motion.