Thanks so much for this! I’ve had mine for over a week but I’m not at home, it helped relieve my installation anxiety…
Curious as to your experience with the FP1’s initial response time compared to the FP2. I love the instantaneous response of my P1 motions, but so tired of doing the “Lost in Space robot - danger Will Robinson” impersonation that I’m glad to give Aqara my money to consolidate to one device instead of making a sensor group with the P1 and FP1… Yes, I’m old.
FP1 is slow to switch its “presence” to Home (detected) and Away. I haven’t timed it, but switching to Home (detected) is 5-10 seconds. Switching to Away is about 20-30 seconds.
There is a hack for the FP1, which is to use the “event” sensor to turn things on. That is as fast as the PIR sensor. I initially set my bathroom up with both FP1 and PIR (because of all the YouTube videos), but after using the “event” hack I will probably remove the PIR and use it for something else. The FP1 is more reliable since the PIR takes so long to reset. If you walk in and out, in and out quickly, the PIR will not always turn lights on, but the FP1 hack always works.
FP1 taking 20-30 seconds to switch to Away is totally fine for my bathrooms needs. It is just making sure you actually left before switching states.
FP2 on the other hand is lightning fast. I have to include “time to active” in automations to slow it down in certain circumstances.
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I’m still experimenting with exit and entryways.
Basically, it tells the sensor to pay extra attention there so it responds more accurately. The sensor is learning over time. It is also learning when you clear occupancy in the Aqara app under settings.
In some rooms, it is easy to add exit and entry in a doorway if there is not another zone or interference area setup there.
In some doorways,I cleared a zone square that should be an edge and put exit/entry behind the door.
Some of my doorways are interference areas. I have dogs and the doors stay open for them and the curtains move. I just skipped setting exit/entry there.
By the way, my dogs are small. Sometimes the FP2 detects them and sometimes it ignores them. It’s not 100% accurate in that regard.
Another tip - let the sensor “rest”. Meaning, after installing in a room, leave it on and leave it alone for a day. Then the next day make adjustments, like setting zones, and then let it rest another day.
I found if I tried setting everything perfect right away, it was frustrating. Aqara app was showing multiple people, ghosts, not showing movement, etc. if I left it a day it was way smoother and accurate. It has a learning feature, so let it understand the space a bit before tweaking it.
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I have two dogs one is 140 LB and the other is 25 LB the Fp2’s have not picked them up yet, as far as I know. I actually want them to be picked up but no matter the sensitivity I set the Fp2’s to they won’t get picked up. Even when they get on the furniture. I’ve even crawled on the floor to see if it’s a height thing and the fp2’s pick me up.
I wrote up a detailed how-to guide for setting up the FP2 with Home Assistant. I cover a lot of lessons learned in fine-tuning my setup. And I show a few example automations I setup with my office using the lux sensor in combination with presence zones and lights.
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- A future firmware update is supposed to make corner mounting easier by allowing you to change the orientation of the grid in the room map. I avoided a corner for now, so the grid would align better with my room.
This will be nice but I only use the app for setup, I’m not really interested in following a little blue dot around. I have all my Fp2’s around 8’ high in corners they seem to be spot on so far just not picking up dogs for whatever reason. I guess that’s actually a good thing I’m using Poe spitters to power them. Made a cut in the the corner drywall and imbedded the usb cable up to the attic or first floor ceiling.
That’s great to hear. I think the FP2 is supposed to ignore small animals. Although it might be helpful to have a toggle to sense animals or not…could be useful for pet owners that do want an automation triggers on their pet’s location.
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Hi,
Anyone experiencing no presence when sit down on sofa ?
FP2 is approximatly 2 meters from my sofa and if I stay it for 5 minutes, the FP2 clear the presence. That’s really strange.
My room have 40 square meter.
I did notice this as well, but I went into the Aqara app and changed my zone so that it was high sensitivity and the problem seems to have gone.
I just got two FP2 to replace my previous FP1s. But I can’t get them to work properly. I have added them both to the Aqara app and have downloaded the new firmware on both of them. But my first problem is that it does not work as in the youtubevideos.
1: When looking at the “room-preview” in the app I can sometimes see one ore more people-icons that looks like it is somewhat representive of where people are in the room. But when they are visible they do not move even if the people that are in the room move around. If I go back and then back again to the room-view the icons sometimes update with new locations.
2: The Automatic configuration have never worked, I always get a configuration error after about 1-2 minutes.
3: I can not add the sensor/detectionzones to home assistant. When I go to the Homekit Control integration nothing is found.
I have two different FP2,s and I have tried resetting them multiple times by clicking the button 10 times but nothing changes when adding them again.
I have also tried with 3 different android-phones without sucess. Does anyone have any suggestions of what can case my problems ?
As @ogiewon mentioned, follow my blog post guide he linked to. But just to offer immediate help:
- Do not worry about ghosts at the beginning. In my experience after enough room and absence tweaks, they go away with time. The iOS app sucks and FREQENTLY freezes with no real time people tracking. Force quit and try again. You may end up force quitting DOZENS of times and pulling your hair out. Keep trying.
- Do NOT use automatic configuration. Period.
- Follow my blog post. You need to remove the sensors from Apple Home first. Then HA should auto-detect the FP2 with Homekit Controller.
Edit: I did a few minor tweaks to the blog post content and updated a few images.
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Thanks, I have looked at the guide but I only have android devices so I don’t understand how to get the sensor/detection-zones added to homekit.
Ya, I’m not sure about that. I don’t know if you unpair/remove the FP2 from the Goolge home app if the FP2 would then broadcast the Apple Homekit request or not.
Thank’s a lot.
Try in different space with hight sensitivity and same result.
Person leave the zone increase when we’ve sleeping blanket.
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Hi, has anyone encountered the problem that the sensor still sees some people even though there are none?
Even when setting up zones where I was alone, there were seven other people (ghosts) on the display.
I have two sensors and they do the same thing. Updated to the latest firmware and still the same.
The sensor is installed in the hallway where there is nothing extra.
Whenever I look at the app it always shows 1 to 5 ghosts. Subsequently, the automations don’t work either.
Please, just to make sure we all are talking about the same thing, what display do you mean? Inside Aqara app, inside Homekit or Home Assistant sensors? Also automations where, in Home Assistant, Homekit automations (if you have hub) or Aqara?
What app are you using and finding this issue? It seems the Aqara app is buggy, but sensor works withing Home Assistant from others. If you encounter this issue withing Home Assistant, then sadly this might mean there are hardware issues with false positives (which I was hoping was fixed).
I’m using home assistant and have encountered zero false positives since i bought the device 11 days ago. I’m not using the Aqara app after the initial setup. However, i have not setup any zones, not marked any walls, not marked exclusion zones. Just simple presence detection with sensitivity set to high. The perfect setup for room presence in your home office. Make sure that you choose the right location for the sensor.