Hi Guys,
I bought 2 eWeLink mmWave human presence sensors and installed in the ceiling of a storage room and a restroom to detect persons entering the room and automatically switch on/off the light based on human presence.
I use Zigbee2MQTT, but strangely this is all the states I can get, actually
{
“linkquality”: 176,
“occupancy”: false,
“no_occupancy_since”: 5
}
I the settings, I can’t change anything about non-occupancy time or anything similar. I experienced that the firmware
- changes the ‘occupancy’ to ‘true’ immediately when I enter (GOOD)
- changed the ‘occupancy’ to ‘false’ after I left the room - ONLY 5 MINUTES LATER (BAD)
I really want immediate (or 3-5 sec delay) action.
Ok, there is an option in the ‘Settings (specific)’ section. Sounds good:
"
No occupancy since
Sends a message after the last time no occupancy (occupancy: false) was detected. When setting this for example to [10, 60] a {"no_occupancy_since": 10} will be sent after 10 seconds and a {"no_occupancy_since": 60} after 60 seconds.
"
I’ve set it to ‘5’ (sec). GOOD.
Now I can switch on, then switch off the light (with entering and leaving the room), but it won’t switch on again within 5 minutes, as within 5 minutes the ‘occupancy’ doesn’t change. This is useless…
Do you have any experience with this?
Are there any better gadget can be installed in the ceiling?
Best wishes,
Zsombor
