Something Better than the Aqara FP1E ~ Your recommendations Needed

Hardware
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Currently I have 3 Aqara FP1E’s in my house (thank you Amazon Prime Day). I have them connected through the Aqara App through the HomeKit Device integration. I want to use them in place of my Aqara P1’s to turn on/off lights using presence detection. The problems I am having is that they are not 100% reliable. Sometimes they will stick on Occupied and sometimes (rarely) they will not sense presence at all. I would currently state that they operate probably 80% reliably.

I really would like a presence detector that is much more reliable than what I am currently experiencing. What is your recommendation? I understand that achieving 100% reliability is probably not attainable, but I just feel that the 80% reliability I am currently experiencing is just not acceptable.

Are the Everything Presence Sensor family more reliable? Is there another recommendation you have? Please share.

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I’m generally really happy with my FP2s. After mapping zones and marking interference sources I find them to be quite accurate. They rarely get stuck on occupied and when that does happen I can generally identify the reason.

I do find that when I am very still they will occasionally go “unoccupied” so in 2 locations I have deployed dumber occupancy sensors on a different axis of detection and made group helpers (binary sensor group) to use in automations.