Automations and correcting sonoff 3.0 usb dongle plus -E identification

Configuration Zigbee
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Hi I am new to HA so my knowledge is pretty limited. I decided to get into HA after a few years with alexa, I bought rasberry pi 5 installed HA and bought a few zigbee sonoff motion sensors etc… I bought a zigbee sonoff 3.0 usb dongle -E and installed it and have done about 10 automations before realizing the dongle coordinator was seen as a generic coordinator and I believe I cannot adjust the motion sensor timing to below 1 minute unless it sees it as a sonoff coordinator.

What I want to do is correct HA to identify the sonoff coordinator correctly.

Will I have to reddo all the automation? You guys would have taken an hour to do these automations but took me 10 days, although I learnt a lot.

Thanks
Andy G

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Nothing about the auto detect label given to the coordinator should impact the motion sensor settings.

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To clarify… are you talking about the time it takes for the motion sensor to go back to “clear” from “detected”?

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If you bought the Sonoff SNZB-03, there is a long topic about it.

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yes, i believe the sonoff coordinator with a sonoff motion sensor can adjust down to 5 seconds to detect again.

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I’ve never used them, I’m afraid. My Hue sensors reset in 10-15 seconds.

However… most motion detection automations don’t use the sensor timeout itself - the delay is in the trigger:

triggers:
  - trigger: state
    entity_id:
      - binary_sensor.yard_motion
    to: "off"
    for:
      hours: 0
      minutes: 5
      seconds: 0
actions:
  - action: light.turn_off
    target:
      entity_id: light.yard
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I doubt it. Where have you seen this?

AFAIK, the Dongle-E is just a generic EZSP coordinator. Functionality under HA should be identical to using SkyConnect/ZBT-1/SLZB-06M, or any other EFR32MG21 based coordinator.

You may be confusing a reference to the Sonoff Bridge with the Dongle-E. The bridge may well expose more than ZHA. Its also possible references to z2m exposing more than ZHA are causing confusion.

If either the bridge or z2m can do it, then it can probably be done under zha with cluster commands.

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Thanks for all your help. I wish I could remember where I saw this. I will try what Jack sent and see if I can set it to 5 seconds.