I’m using a Z-Wave Fibaro 4-in-1 Sensor (http://amzn.to/2iabgdA) to detect presence in my corridor. But since my corridor is L shaped and with all that furniture, I was not able to cover every corner of the room. So I was searching for an easy and cheap solution to extend the range. First I was thinking about a second Fibaro Sensor but they are very expensive and I would not need a second sensor also reporting lux and temperature for one room.
In a hardware store I stumbled over an 433 RF motion sensor from Intertechno (similar to this one http://amzn.to/2iUBPSI) and since I already have a working pilight send and receive infrastructure running, I gave it a try.
FYI: This only works if the RF motion sensors also sends an “off” signal after a period of time without any motion. In my case with the Intertechno PIR-1000 there is even a switch on the back of the sensor to define after what period the off signal should be sent (5s/5m/10m).
A motion sensor is nothing more than a switch, sending on signals on movement and off signals after a period of time without any movement. So this is what I got with pililight-receive:
"message": {
"id": 22498586,
"unit": 9,
"state": "on"
},
"origin": "receiver",
"protocol": "arctech_switch",
"uuid": "0000-b4-27-eb-0486ee",
"repeats": 7
Using this, I just created a new switch, just like I do for the remote controlled power plugs aka RF switches:
- platform: pilight
switches:
22498586U9:
on_code:
protocol: arctech_switch
id: 22498586
unit: 9
'on': 1
off_code:
protocol: arctech_switch
id: 22498586
unit: 9
'off': 0
on_code_receive:
protocol: arctech_switch
id: 22498586
unit: 9
state: 'on'
off_code_receive:
protocol: arctech_switch
id: 22498586
unit: 9
state: 'off'
Since its not a switch and does not receive on/offs, only sends them, we only need the on_code_receive and off_code_receive definition. But on_code and off_code code are mandatory for the switch component so you have to add them, even if they are useless in this case.
Now, having a working switch I transformed it into a motion sensor using a binary template sensor to work with in automations and so on:
binary_sensor:
- platform: template
sensors:
corridor_movement_rf:
friendly_name: 'Flur: Bewegung RF'
value_template: "{{ is_state('switch.22498586U9', 'on') }}"
sensor_class: motion
Done! That’s an easy and working way to integrate 433 motion sensors, even if they are nor supported by pilight as a sensor and therefore can’t be integrated as a pilight sensor directly.
Regarding my issue about extending the range of one Fibaro Sensor I combined the sensor above with the Fibaro sensor into one motion sensor, again using a template binary sensor combining both with an OR-statement. That way I can just use the corridor_movement in all my motion depending corridor automations:
corridor_movement:
friendly_name: 'Flur: Bewegung'
value_template: "{{ is_state('binary_sensor.corridor_movement_zw', 'on') or is_state('binary_sensor.corridor_movement_rf', 'on') }}"
sensor_class: motion
corridor_movement_zw:
friendly_name: 'Flur: Bewegung ZW'
value_template: "{{ states.sensor.fibaro_system_fgms001_motion_sensor_burglar_2_10.state == '8' }}"
sensor_class: motion
I don’t know if this method (using switches for motion sensors) is known or not, but since I didn’t see it anywhere I just wanted to share it. 