IKEA Sensor - can only see entity for battery

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Hi there,

I’m a recent user in HA but manage to configure quite a few things on the last 3 weeks (since I started) and I think I’m beginning to have a nice interface:

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This community is great for learning but I’m now stuck with one of my ikea products: a motion sensor.
It’s imported to HA but I can only see the entity that gives me the info about battery. For what I read I should have a binary sensor, or am I wrong?
I imported the sensor to ikea gateway associated with a lamp first but have now erased it and re attached it to the gateway with no association to any lamp (I saw that imported again, new name).

What am I missing?

… sorry if this has been answered before :frowning:

Pedro.

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Ikea gateway reads them as battery only. You will need to get a CC2531 USB and install zigbee2mqtt add-on to be able to use the motion sensor as a trigger.

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Thanks for your quick reply.
Do you know if those dongles use to be compatible with raspberry Pi?

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Yes, it does. I am running Hassio on a rpi3 with the CC2531. Keep in mind the range of the motion sensor to the CC2531.

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Yes, of course.
Thanks for your help.