HKWL-MS03W motion sensor with Tasmota

Configuration
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Hi everyone, I’ve been tinkering with these HKWL-MS03W’s for a few days.

@jssting and @The_DuFF - do you mind giving a bit of an explanation of the differences between Tamper Switch, Reed Switch and Reed Switch Multitrigger? I’m trying to do some mucking about, but I honestly don’t have an idea what those different things are - I had assume it was one switch

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I haven’t worked out the tamper switch option.
Normally a tamper switch would be a detection of the cover being removed or similar.
If you have a look at @zacnut 's photo of the senor 12/2019 - At 5 oclock there is an SMD labled SW1.
I was thinking this might be a reed switch, (sensitive to a magnet) - but it is not.
@jssting - can you please advise how you managed to get tamper to trigger?

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From what I was able to get traced, there is only one switch directly on the ESP side, the reset switch. The other switches are on the MCU side and only sends through a triggers as a serial stream when the device is moved or motion is triggered. I was able to look at the streams to see which streams are sent in alignment with specific events

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Hi @jssting could you tell me if i can run the sensor while plugged in?

Thank You

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The sensor runs fine with USB connected.

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Thank you i must have something wrong in the config or something. i am new to this.
My sensor has a toggle button in the config as if its acting as a switch?

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How are people finding the battery life on this thing? I’m still playing around with its config a bit but so far the battery seemed to not last long at all, maybe a week.
I have a hue sensor that I put up outside probably 2 years ago now and still seems to have plenty somehow.

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Your mileage may very due to the traffic in the area. Mine lasted about a month initially, but that included playing around with the device a lot. I have actually got some rechargeable batteries and a charger from Ebay for $20, which last around a month but mine is in a high traffic area.

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Can you provide an example how your matching the mqtt messages that are received when motion is detected? I have my genio motion sensor successfully flashed and can see the data being sent to HA. My goal is to turn a light on for 2 minutes when motion is detected. Thanks for any help :slight_smile:

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I basically use the fact that the MQTT Message comes through as the indicator of motion.
my trigger is as follows:

platform: mqtt
topic: GenioPIR/tele/PirSensor

I also do this only if it’s after 6:30 pm and before 10:30 pm and if the light is not already on… my conditions are as follow:

condition: and
conditions:
  - condition: state
    entity_id: switch.detadgplug2_porchlightsw
    state: 'off'
  - after: '22:30:00'
    before: '06:30:00'
    condition: time

then I purely do a call to switch the light on, add a 2 minute delay as the next action, then call the service to turn the light off…

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I’ve actually had mine running on the same set of batteries for over 4 months now, and it’s at the front door so it get a lot of action.

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Hi Dormani,
I have taken a different approach with my sensor. I have basically decided that any triggering would constitute movement, so I updated my Tasmota rule to just publish “sensor_Triggered” (regardless of the reason for triggering) and added a off delay on my sensor. My sensor config below:

- platform: mqtt
  state_topic: "GenioPIR/tele/PirSensor"
  device_class: motion
  name: "External Entry PIR Sensor"
  off_delay: 20
  value_template: >-
    {% if value == 'sensor_Triggered' %}
      {{'ON'}}
    {% else %}
      {{'OFF'}}
    {% endif %}

This means the sensor will trigger and then automatically reset state after 20 seconds.

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Hi, i got one of these, flashed with tasmota using tuya convert

followed the template here https://templates.blakadder.com/mirabella_genio_I002576.html, but i dont see to get anything back in the console, i just see over and over

00:05:22 WIF: Checking connection...
00:05:42 WIF: Checking connection...
00:06:02 WIF: Checking connection...

I have a few tuyaMCU devices in my house working well, but this one just does not appear to output any messages

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Any tips on how to get it to flash over tuya convert. i dont get mine to bite.
I get sending
smartconfig complete
then resending smartconfig packets
a bunch of stars
and then back to smartconfig complete.

could this be bacuse of the firmware update tuya sent out. is there a way of checking if the device have been updated. it have been connected to their cloud before?

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I ended up shelving this as i tried using tuya convert and bricked it :frowning: :pill: