Philipps Hue (indoor) motion sensors via Zigbee2MQTT

[braaak]

Hi everybody,

I connected my Philipps Hue motion sensors without any problems over a Zigbee2MQTT-USB-Stick to my HomeAssistant on a raspberry. All described entities show up correctly in HomeAssistant. But it seems as if the sensors stopped working after the initial first values: they do not change their sensor values anymore.

Nevertheless: when I use the “Identifybutton”-entity the device blinks correctly - so I assume it is paired and working correctly.

I remeber - back when it was connected to a hue bridge - there was a “activate/deactivate” button in the hue app. And to get this clear: I do NOT want to go back the laborious detour over the original bridge and back to home assistant over its integration.

How do I activate the motion-detection within home assistant?

Any help would be appreciated!

braak

[braaak]

Found out myself after hours of searching: it’s via the zigbee clusters

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