IKEA Tradfri motionsensor - only battery_level?

Third party integrations
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I have connected a Tradfri motionsensor to my IKEA gateway.

Its nicely found and visible as a state sensor with battery_level: xx.

But the interesting thing is to create an automation with for example

trigger:  
- entity_id: sensor.tradfri_motion_sensor

but that refers to the battery level I think. I have found older posts with entity_id: binary_sensor.tradfri_motion_sensor but that does not seem to work and is not viewable in the automation editors state browser.

Any hints?

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Hi, Did you ever solved that?. I have the same issue / behaviour

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You will need to get a CC2531 usb stick and install zigbee2mqtt in the add-on store of HA to be able to trigger the sensor as motion.

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If you use the IKEA gateway, it is impossible to detect motion from the motion sensors. Not HA’s fault, it is the way IKEA designed the system. You need a third party ZigBee coordinator (zigbee2mqtt, ZHA, deconz) to use them as motion detectors.

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hello everyone,

to share my experience:
last april/may on my very first installation of Home assistant on the RPi3 i had the signal of the presence sensor shown on the home assistant, wich worked fairly well and i am using the ikea tradfri gateway.
right now i only receive the battery level, which is nice to know but not so useful :slight_smile:

this tell us there is a possiblity to go through the ikea gateway to have the information we need!
i am a noob on the domaine but if someone is willing to share a bit of time to try to debug it, would be a great help for the community.