Paulmann Wireless Twilight Sensor Motion Detect: No pairing

HAVik · November 4, 2025, 2:22pm

I’m using a gateway dresden electronic ConBee II on a HAGreen.
Paired some devices everything is fine.
Have now a new “Paulmann Wireless Twilight Sensor Motion Detect” Zigbee 3.0
Tried to pair this but was not successful.

Did somebody manage to include this device?
Can somebody provide some info how to do this?
Thanks for a feedback.

fleskefjes · November 4, 2025, 6:30pm

Are you using Deconz? I’m not sure if this is the same device, but you might have more luck with device support using something else, Z2M for example.

HAVik · November 9, 2025, 4:01pm

Yes I’m using Deconz.
The sensor is labelled with Zigbee3. I guess that’s the problem.
Ok, I try to pair it with ZIGBEE2MQTT
I report feedback when I tried it.
Thanks

fleskefjes · November 9, 2025, 5:00pm

Not quite, it is the non-existing support of the device in Deconz that is the problem, not that it is Zigbee 3.0.

Just remember that you cannot run both Deconz and Z2M using the same Conbee. If you are moving over to Z2M, uninstall Deconz.

HAVik · November 13, 2025, 12:35pm

Finally had the time to reconfigure everything.

Removed all devices in Deconz integration
Removed Deconz integration
Added Z2M integration
Added all devices to Z2M
Setup everything as before.

Then tried to pair the Paulmann sensor not successfully.
I tried the pairing close to the adapter.
The adapter is on an extension cable.
Reset the sensor according the following link.
https://en.paulmann.com/smart-home/products/outdoor-sensor/

Nothing helps.
Appreciate any help. Thanks

HAVik · December 16, 2025, 3:51pm

Further information:
Had a chance to try to pair with a coordinator Home Assistant Connect ZBT-2.
Result: Not successfull.
Asked in link:

github.com/blakadder/zigbee

_zigbee/Paulmann_18012.md

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---
date_added: 2022-10-23
model: 180.12
vendor: Paulmann
title: Twilight Dusk Motion Detector
category: sensor
zigbeemodel: ['140563']
compatible: [z2m]
link: https://en.paulmann.com/p/plug-shine-sensor-smart-home-zigbee-twilight-daemmerungssensor-4-8v-anthrazit/18012
link: https://www.amazon.de/dp/B083M5DBTL
link2: 
link3: 
---

No answer.
I only can confirm that it’s not possible!
It’s a pity

fleskefjes · December 16, 2025, 5:15pm

How? Is it pairing as unknown or not pairing at all? Anything in the Z2M logs?

HAVik · December 25, 2025, 1:21pm

It does not pair at all. The log says nothing:

[12/25/2025, 2:11:38 PM] z2m:mqtt: MQTT publish: topic ‘zigbee2mqtt/bridge/health’, payload ‘{“response_time”:1766668298939,“os”:{“load_average”:[0.21,0.12,0.04],“memory_used_mb”:1427.13,“memory_percent”:36.3757},“process”:{“uptime_sec”:703218,“memory_used_mb”:121.13,“memory_percent”:3.0873},“mqtt”:{“connected”:true,“queued”:0,“published”:9895,“received”:56},“devices”:{“0x0017880108f19659”:{“messages”:4914,“messages_per_sec”:0.007,“leave_count”:0,“network_address_changes”:0},“0x00158d000707f55c”:{“messages”:1147,“messages_per_sec”:0.0016,“leave_count”:0,“network_address_changes”:0},“0x00158d000707ef16”:{“messages”:335,“messages_per_sec”:0.0005,“leave_count”:0,“network_address_changes”:0},“0x00158d000648d4f4”:{“messages”:111,“messages_per_sec”:0.0002,“leave_count”:0,“network_address_changes”:0}}}’

fleskefjes · December 25, 2025, 1:56pm

Have you pressed “permit join”?

HAVik · January 4, 2026, 2:57pm

Yes. and checked monitoring:

[1/4/2026, 3:49:07 PM] frontend:api:bridge: Sending {“topic”:“bridge/request/permit_join”,“payload”:{“time”:254,“device”:null,“transaction”:“kuq25-1”}}
[1/4/2026, 3:49:07 PM] z2m: Zigbee: allowing new devices to join.
[1/4/2026, 3:49:07 PM] zh:ember: [STACK STATUS] Network opened.
[1/4/2026, 3:49:08 PM] z2m:mqtt: MQTT publish: topic ‘zigbee2mqtt/bridge/response/permit_join’, payload ‘{“data”:{“time”:254},“status”:“ok”,“transaction”:“kuq25-1”}’

Got no information at all.

BTW:
Found in german forum the same problem with no solution: