Aqara’s New Thermostat Is Also a Home Hub, Presence Sensor, and Video Doorbell Monitor

Aqara just announced a swath of new smart home products at CES 2026, all Matter-compatible, equipped with advanced presence sensing, and broadly compatible across several different wireless standards. Among them is the Aqara Thermostat Hub W200, a device that’s way, way more than just a smart home thermostat.

To start, the Hub W200 features a 4-inch touchscreen that lets you control smart home devices, both first- and- third-party (via Matter). It can also show you who’s at your door and let you lock or unlock it (provided you’re using an Aqara video doorbell and smart lock.) It also comes with millimeter sensing, which is wireless sensing tech that enables things like automation triggers based on not just motion, but where someone is in a room. The Hub W200 connects to your network via Wi-Fi (2.4GHz or 5GHz).

The device also has special compatibility with Apple Home’s new features, Adaptive Temperature and Clean Energy Guidance. The first lets the thermostat use your iPhone’s location to predict when you’re home, on your way home, away, or very far away (on a trip, for instance), to adjust your heating and cooling. Clean Energy Guidance lets the thermostat adjust its operation to prefer times when energy is cleaner and cheaper. It also works with utility companies’ time-of-use rates.

In person at a press briefing, the W200 bears a striking resemblance to an Ecobee thermostat, with the same square, rounded square covered in glossy black plastic. Which, fine. I’m not saying the look of thermostats is a fully solved problem, but I have no quarrel with the Ecobee look.

One of the Smart Locks that the Hub W200 will work with is the Smart Lock U400, which the company also announced. The U400 will feature Aliro, a new smart lock protocol from the Connectivity Standards Alliance (the same group behind Matter) that can be unlocked by both iPhones and Android phones using NFC and UWB.

Aqara says the U400 can tell, using UWB capabilities on your phone or smartwatch, when you appear to be approaching the door to open it, or you’re just walking near or past it—like if you’re not ready to go in but heading to, say, your porch swing. To sit and drink, I don’t know, mint juleps on a hot summer day.

During the press briefing, I watched as a box with an iPhone in it—at the moment, it uses just Apple Home Key’s UWB implementation—slid toward and away from the lock, repeatedly locking and unlocking it just as it got close. It didn’t do so quite as reliably, though, when others tried with a separate demo unit, walking toward and away from the lock.

Last few things: the U400 features auto-locking, fingerprint unlock, passcodes, and unlocking via voice command with your preferred smart home platform. It uses Matter-over-Thread, meaning it’s compatible with all major smart home platforms, so long as you have a Thread Border Router, like a HomePod mini, on your network.

The U400 is available today for $269, while the Hub W200 will come later.

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