I got impatient waiting for the FP300s from Aqara and so bought the LeFaire Human Presence Sensors (LWR01). The first one out of the box connected to Home Assistant via Matter and it just permanently sees presence. Not a great start. Anyone else had the same challenge?
Seeing same thing. Installed last night.
Going to go back to basic motion sensors!
When I saw that the firmware was 1.0, I thought āwhoops, should have waitedā
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Hi - not quite your situation, but I was also an early adopter of the Lafaer LWR01, and was equally nervous about FW 1.0 ā¦
However after a couple of goās it connected fine Matter-wise to my IKEA Dirigera and it has been working flawlessly in a relativeās small,narrow toilet. Light stays on when someone is on the throne, and turns off after 1min when left.
Very pleased that it does not pick up on anyone in the bathroom or kitchen adjacent to the toilet, even though the walls are drywall. Did not even need me to fiddle with zones etc.
Iāve just ordered a second one, for their bathroom with shower (the LWR01 can be battery powered and has waterproofing) - idea is that they wonāt have to remember to switch off lights after exiting.
I canāt seem to keep these connected. Works great for a day or two, then āUnavailableā
Same here. I bought two. First one connected to the Home Assistant with a Sonoff Zigbee Dongle glashed with OpenThread, but constantly reports presence detected. The brightness detection seems to work fine.
The second one does not want to connect to Home Assistant at all. Companion App says āHome unable to communicate with deviceā.ā
Any help is appreciated.
Off to the spares drawer it goes. Hopefully the Aqara FP300s are my solution.
I ended up seeking a refund from them. They returned my money. They mentioned that a room with any glass windows will cause false positives - which makes them useless in any house I know of. Unless youāre in jail.
I have two of these devices connected to Home Assistant. Every few weeks, one of them (sometimes the first, sometimes the second) loses its connection to Home Assistant and goes completely offline. I canāt restore the connection in HA. Iāve tried everything: restarting HA, restarting the entire system, pinging, and everything else. So far, the only thing that has helped is removing the battery for about 10 seconds. Immediately after reinserting it, the device is back online. Of course, this isnāt a permanent solution, but at least I donāt have to re-pair it.