I’ve set up HA on a RPi for my home with many devices. The community consensus seems to be that running Z2M instead of ZHA is preferable for reasons that apply to my use case so I am preparing to migrate from ZHA to Z2M. I am validating each of the device types already in “production” for use with Z2M. Among them are the two versions of Aqara PIR sensors: the earlier model RTCGQ11LM devices and the later RTCGQ14LM versions.
I’ve got one of each paired with the coordinator (SZLB-06P7) on the new test system that runs in a set of Docker containers for portability. Here is the issue/question:
The original installation (ZHA) exposes both motion and occupancy entities via the HA UI. The new configuration exposes only occupancy entities for these devices. My perception is that the difference between these entities is only a matter of timing and presentation, however the reporting difference throws a wrench into migration. I would like to understand some things more thoroughly, to wit:
Generally, why do I not see the motion entity reported with the Z2M configuration? Or more specifically, what is the provenance of this datum? Is there some code in the canned ZHA package that synthesizes two values by simply augmenting what is reported by the device? Or does zigbee2mqtt not see or report all info that the devices can or do emit?
I have monitored the MQTT broker traffic and haven’t seen any motion reports from Z2M, but I have not studied it closely. I hope someone more knowledgeable can enlighten me!