Aqara FP2 announcement at CES. Available globally, has zones, can detect multiple people and do different automations depending on where you are. For example if you lay down in your bed it can do a specific automation then another when you get out of bed. Still wondering if you can make it ignore areas that have movement like ceiling fans. That was the biggest issue for me with the FP1 except for not supporting zones.
With that said, those features are based on zones so I don’t know how that will work out when using it in Home Assistant but maybe someone can figure that out. Maybe emulate the Aqara app similar to the HomeKit emulation. Uses wifi, not Matter, at least when it comes.out as presence detectors are not in the first round of devices that support Matter but will be updated to support Matter whenever that happens. Works completely locally and is powered by USB C (not attached) so will allow for better placement. Here’s the link for top picks for the Apple Home announced devices at CES. Jump to the 13:49 minutes mark for the details. Maybe more details later as this video seems to be specific to devices announcement for Apple but I imagine the Aqara app works the same on Android so I don’t expect it will.
Hi, Mihai! I’ve got the same problem with one of my Aqara FP1. It blinks twice on power connection and thats all… no respond for reset button, no respond to zigbee dongle. Have you fixed yourth unit?
Unfortunately not. And since then another unit failed in te same way. I had a ticket opened with Aqara but they weren’t able to find a solution. Obviously the AliExpress shop is closed.
Last month I got word of an initial region basic tweak, which you can install manually and being initial not very user friendly. Has anyone already tried this out? I installed it as external converter which was easy but had not time to check in detail how the regions are organized/working
I have 4 of these and i pair them via ZHA but none of them have any sensors, they all have this strange UNK_MANUFACTURER and UNK_MODEL. Has anyone ever seen this.
I gave in and installed zigbee2mqtt just to test the zones (I much prefer zha when possible).
I declared 9 zones in a grid and set up some trigger based sensors and it’s amazing to see the status of each zone
To my knowledge the FP1 only works in Zigbee2MQTT and not ZHA due to the region support. You can have both Zigbee2MQTT and ZHA running at the same time but it requires 2 ZigBee adapters which is how I’m running it.
Since I got the SkyConnect and it looks like ZHA is going to be the preferred method going forward, at least from a development stand point, I moved everything over to ZHA accept a few devices like the FP1 and 3 other devices that I use MQTT with so I’m running a conbee for Zigbee2MQTT and a SkyConnect for ZHA and it works with zero issues and they have zero issues communicating and it didn’t break any automations. All my lights that are in ZHA work perfectly with the FP1 which is in Zigbee2MQTT for my automations.
Do you know if there’s any way you can make it ignore a region and do nothing? That has been my only issue with mmwave sensors, if I forget to turn my ceiling fan off then my automations don’t work for obvious reasons.
I think this is badly needed for MmWave because sometimes there are moving parts in the area that you either can’t control or want to leave on like my ceiling fan being an example. Pets are obviously a no go with MmWave: )
Don’t think there is a native way of doing that.
You can try and create a region around your fan and use the “actions sensor” to create a template sensor only for your desired region.
FP1 works in zha too. But in my case if I have more than then one sensor in zha it becomes very unstable and seems like sensors are getting stuck on detecting.
As soon as I have only one sensor in zha everything works great. Not sure if the problem is with zha or with my device.
So I migrated two of my three sensors to z2m and now all my three sensors are working seamlessly. And I have region support for two of my sensors.
I’ll keep my setup like this for a few weeks to confirm the stability before deciding on my final solution.
Thanks! Good to know. I have a feeling the FP2 will work much better in ZHA since it’s being released globally and isn’t isolated to China but at the same time I’m waiting for my presence one but now that zones work in Z2M I am going to have to play around with those to see what I can get working.
I do hope at some point you can ignore certain areas with the best example being a ceiling fan, at least in my case because if I leave and forget to turn it off my automations don’t work granted I can always run the script the automations runs remotely but the point of automations is not having to do that. My only issue with mmwave is it’s too sensitive, even on the lowest settings.
I also ordered 7 HLK-LD2410B’s so I’m going to see how those work. For 3 dollars a piece and 7 for 15 bucks it’s hard not to see how they can’t be implemented in some way as they work over BT and are amazingly easy to setup. I just wish I could justify a 3d printer. They don’t expose as many entities as the FP1 but still 3 bucks a pop it was hard to pass up, especially because of BT proxies working in HA now there aren’t area constraints due to BT range restrictions.
recently bought 3 of this sensor last year december, one thing for sure is this sensor is pain to setup. well in short, the main pointers here is how it was placed and make sure that all objects that the sensor is pointed to is not moving, so that means avoid curtains, avoid electric fan, avoid analog wall clock. etc… but once you got the sensor in placed, its works really well and never failed for me… yet. though that literally took me about 6 hours to setup just for the single room ffs!
I still have 2 of the sensor yet to be installed but after I checked z2m for updates, regions is finally supported. installed another one in living room at the ceiling and damn… this literally makes 4 PIR sensors in living room obsolete and its very responsive.
still 1 sensor left to be installed which im planning to install in bathroom but yet to find a time to do it.
I only got into this FP1 sensor once they finally got cheaper at least here in South East Asia on markets like shopee or lazada, which this sensor only cost like 1500pesos, around 30 freedom dollars. that’s cheaper than a hue pir sensor!
well that’s the problem. I dont have aqara hub so I cant use regions to detect the issues, only recently with z2m update that I can finally use it to spot which are the culprit ones.
though I hope someone can make some sort of yamlgotchi script (or maybe a dedicated addon for fp1) that can split all 10 regions with their own entity rather than relying one action entity alone.
