Hi all, I have a Govee led light strip that I have setup to use as a night light with automation to turn on and off based on motion sensor Aqara P1. I can see in my Aqara app that the sensor detects motion properly and have the device integrated into HA. I have my Govee led strip integrated to HA and can control it via the app.
My problem is when I build the automation to turn the light on when motion is detected by the P1, nothing happens. I am thinking that HA is just not getting the trigger for some reason but don’t know where to start. I can manually tell the automation to run and the light strip comes on, but this bypasses the trigger section from what I can tell.
Can anyone help me with troubleshooting this? Not sure what details to provide that would be helpful as this is my first step into HA.
Welcome to HA. You first step is to see what is triggering and what is not, also if you could post your automation code that would be a huge help.
If you go to the automation and then try to trigger it, you should see this…
If that is not happening then it’s not triggering.
Let’s see what you got so far.
I just noticed that in HA dashboard it shows the Aqara P1 motion sensor, but that its status is “Unavailable” and history shows no recorded events within HA. So like I mentioned before it seems like the trigger is not being received by HA.
Well, I have no clue for sure what was wrong but I think it was something with HomeKit integration. I ended up trying to reinstall the Matter server in HA and not connect the devices through HomeKit and now it works. I appreciate the response and attempt to assist though!