Hi, I need help. I bought 2 presence sensors, but in Home Assistant Green they don’t work correctly. The sensors always show Presence: true, even when there is no movement or no one in the room. Could you please help me figure out what’s wrong?
I also have 2 of those. They are virtually useless. The distance varies and sometimes it misbehave. I got it barely useful by creating a counter. (I use it to turn on my toilet light).
So, it stays in 0. If it detects someone walking by (that’s the tricky part: you need to put it in the sweet spot where you can get a walk by without getting motion inside the toilet. On my case:
- Lower the sensitivity to 0.
- set the timeout to 1s
- set the counter: +1 in every presence signal, resetting to 0 if greater than 1.
- action atually uses the counter not the sensor. So, 1 is turned on, 0 is turned off.
- I set up a widget on my phone to let me know if the toilet is occupied - useless since I live alone, but well… I do host a lot of BBQs, I guess. LoL
step 5 also helps debugging.
does this help?