How To: Updating Aqara FP300 Zigbee Firmware

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Aqara has released new firmware for the FP300 when used in Zigbee mode. However, if you are using this with Home Assistant and Zigbee2MQTT, there’s no automatic OTA update available inside of Home Assistant.

I wrote a blog post on how to use the Aqara app to update your FP300 to the latest firmware. It retains all Z2M and HA settings. Just takes a few minutes per device.

Home Assistant: Updating Aqara FP300 Zigbee Firmware

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There will be if you can push a PR to the Z2M OTA branch, if you have access to the source.

TLDR for those not willing to resort to external links.

  • Put device in pairing mode (5s hold on button until you see a purple light pulse). Use Aqara app to switch to thread mode.
  • Wait until it’s done.
  • Repeat the above but this time switch to zigbee mode, then once it switched ,press permit join in Z2M
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To my knowledge Aqara does not release the download URLs for their firmware. In addition, prior methods to root Android and intercept download URLs is now no longer viable due to changes in the Aqara app OS requirements, from what I’ve been told.

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Is there any improvements, does it expose any new features etc? I am currently using FP300 with ZHA and finding it bit underwhelming at the moment.

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With Z2M I don’t see any device changes or obvious improvements.

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For anyone reading this in the future, OTA firmware update for the FP300 was made available via Z2M in the beginning of February.

Fair warning though, unless you’re experiencing issues, don’t rush to upgrade to Stack: 3.a build 41.
I had finally figured out the right combination of settings to get the FP300 working with no false positives or negatives on both the PIR & the MMWave side using the previous firmware.
On the new firmware, the PIR constantly reports false positives on any sensitivity setting, while the MMWave reports false negatives on low (which it was set to on the previous firmware).

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I was wondering but had not really researched it yet why all of a sudden my FP300 PIR was constantly reporting false positives. It is happening every 1 minute. Driving me crazy. I had switched to Matter to try something and then switched back to Zigbee a few days ago. That’s what I get for messing with something that was working pretty well.

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Hi ShadoFist

Have you ever figure how to fix the false positives on PIR on Stack 3.a build 41 ?
Do you have any clue if there is a way to downgrade from 0.0.0_5841 to
0.0.0_5234 ? I tried to find a copy of the firmware but can’t find it anywhwe.

I have 2 of those I bought in november running 0.0.0_5234 wich runs perfectly well for me but just received 2 new ones with 0.0.0_5841 wich creates false positive every now and then.,

thanks for any help on this

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Nope, sorry. I can’t get the PIR to behave on the latest firmware no matter what I try.

I suggest you create an account on the Aqara forums & post there. Hopefully an actual team member will reply to you after the AI bot responses.