Aqara’s Touchscreen Panel Switch S100 Surfaces

It’s only been a few months since Aqara made a bit of a splash with announcements for a ton of forthcoming products at CES 2025. Some of those are now with us today, like the Climate Sensor W100, and the Aqara Hub M100. However, as CES is based around US products, there was only brief mention of devices designed for use outside of North America, one of which was the US version of the Aqara Panel Switch S100.

Whilst the US version was shown off at CES in January, the version for Europe and other regions, that use square switches (86 type) hasn’t surfaced until now, where it’s shown on a page within Aqara’s International version of its website. Unsurprisingly, this bears more than a passing similarity to the company’s Magic Smart Switch S1E (video HERE, Review HERE), and essentially appears to offer the same kind of experience.

This means it’s primarily designed to replace a single gang triple smart switch, and like the S1E, also offers 6 smart buttons, with both the switches and buttons exposed to Apple Home. Additionally, you should be able to control other Aqara devices, much like you can with the Panel Hub S1 Plus (video HERE, review HERE). However, this new panel is half the size of the S1 Plus, which is an advantage, as it can more easily replace standard single gang switches – especially those positioned close to door frames. Some users found the larger size of the S1 Plus problematic in such locations, particularly when a door was immediately to the left of the intended installation point.

What the S1 Plus offers over the S100 is live video streaming for Aqara cameras, as well as Matter Bridge and Zigbee Hub functionality, although if you’re already in the Aqara ecosystem, you’ll almost certainly already have a hub of some description.

The original S1E, which was only released in China, South East Asia and the Middle East, is likely to come to the EU, which means it’ll include the relevant back section suitable for the more rounded switch boxes used in Europe. There are currently no specs listed for the product so it’s uncertain whether this will use WiFi like the S1E does, or if it’ll be exposed to Matter, if it does use WiFi. What we do know is that it will offer power monitoring for the wired switches it replaces. Hopefully we’ll know more if and when it gets an international release.

Credit to Stian Johannessen for the find.