+1 Made an account to bump this topic.
Adding my voice as well. The motion and lux sensors would make this the perfect switch!
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This would definitely be a great feature, I see my shop on after power outages and would also like better fine tuned control and motion detection alerts I am not around in HA.
Is the limitation that the sensor and lux are not shown in the local API?
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bump!
i just bought one. wish motion was exposed.
just submitted github issue
At least bulbs allow configuring the default behavior after hard power off (with the app, or using python-kasa git master since Implement changing the bulb turn-on behavior by rytilahti · Pull Request #381 · python-kasa/python-kasa · GitHub), if that helps…
I just created the API based on information gathered from KS220M(US) support · Issue #268 · python-kasa/python-kasa · GitHub and I’m not sure if it’s complete or not, but a couple of notes:
- Motion does not expose the motion state but merely allows configuring its behavior (range, enabled or not)
- Ambient sensor allows reading the state, so adding a sensor for it would be doable
If someone wants to work on implementing new features to the integration, I can try to help by giving hints here and there but I don’t currently have time to tinker with it myself. Adding new sensors should be straightforward just by modifying core/sensor.py at 7f90fb1cd1c83128cdb6552845dbbfdd434671d2 · home-assistant/core · GitHub to see if the module is available and adding an entity for it.
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Any way we could get a bounty on this? Together we could probably crowd fund it!
Hate to thread jack but can you schedule the motion sensor? I’d like to put one in the bedroom, but need to have it not come on when we sleep.
I’m assuming your setting it to manual mode in HA and not some proprietary software bit?
I am super bummed that nobody has even made an attempt to acknowledge this request. I have seen requests with less votes get addressed that get more attention than this. The product good solution for a function that is not really supplied by any other product.
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Just installed ES20M switch in the garage. Would be great to have motion sensor support inside HA.
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For the time being you can use the Kasa app to create motion schedule under “smart control”
open kasa app> click on your motion switch> bottom left icon is “smart control”>
set one time period for motion, and another for manual only
Has anyone tried Nexete motion switch? You can link it through Tuya, and if you use the localtuya addon you may be able to access all the settings.
I bought a UME smart motion security light which uses Tuya, and in HA it only imported with on/off toggle, but under localtuya I was able to add all the configurable settings which allowed for great automation control. I’m wondering if it’d be the same with the Nexete.
I ended up using cloudfree switches which use tasmota instead and worked fine CloudFree Motion Light Switch - CloudFree
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It sounds like it is a limitation of the Kasa local API to not be able to access motion events/etc. Is this true? If so, will look for another switch since it will be unlikely that the HA integration will ever be able to get motion status. This is so close to an ideal switch with sensors!
The current integration is polling. There doesn’t seem to be a push local api. Even if we can figure out a way to poll for motion state the experience would likely be subpar since it would have up to a 5 second delay.
Unless tplink decides to publish docs for a local push api, I would look elsewhere for a similar device
I’d be okay with polling, for example it’s good enough for a security system.
Is there a way to control the config on this switch via HA? I see that python-kasa does support it.
@AJolly what type of configuration changes would you like to see? Feel free to open an issue in python-kasa project and perhaps we can make it happen.
If running kasa --host <addr> feature lists the wanted configuration, adding support requires just modifying some homeassistant code to define the metadata (like icons, translations, etc.). If it is not yet exposed through that “feature” interface, it will require a bit more work but the main hurdle is to know what is useful to expose.
It would be cool if PIR entities could be exposed in Home Assistant so that one can turn the motion sensor on/off from the automations.
The use case would be enabling/disabling the PIR-based cloud actions depending on the state of other switches and external motion sensors.
Another use case for me would be toggling the PIR sensor on/off as sometimes it stops working and I need to toggle it in the Kasa app to make it work again.
Fair enough and that should be doable. Adding support for this requires changes to the backend library as well as to homeassistant, the first step is to add it to python-kasa and make sure it works. I just created Expose PIR enabled setting for iot dimmers by rytilahti · Pull Request #1174 · python-kasa/python-kasa · GitHub to add support to python-kasa, it would be great if you could test it using the python-kasa’s cli tool.
If you need help with setting up the test environment, please let me know. I am also available on the homeassistant discord under alias ‘rytilahti’, feel free to contact me privately there if you want.
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