Is it possible with AppDeamon?
Yes, but I found out, that this is too slow. The roundtrip Sensor->Raspi->Lights takes from a second, which is fast enough, to usually three seconds, and sometimes even to more. Maybe it has to do with some “wakeup” time for the rapsi 4 itsself. I haven’t figured it out, it did varied and I there was not a tutorial on how to measure the roundtrip time and identify the slow parts.
So, from my experience, using AppDaemon is overall much slower than a directly paired lights, at least for a “instant on” effect I cannot recommend it.
Direct pairing can be done with zigbee2mqtt too.
Can I solve it with something else?
For a “fast on” experience, I use
Binding on zigbee layer This describes how to add lights to groups and bind them on the zigbee layer. With the GUI in zigbee2mqtt this is easy to setup.
Unfortunately this showed some unexpected behaviour for the older Tradfri motion sensors:
- They can only send to groups
- The older motions sensors assign themself a random group after reset
random groups with IKEA motion sensor this solution is noticeable faster and , other than my experience with Appdeamonand the different roundtrip times, always the same speed.
Two sensors with different timing
I don’t know if this can be handled by AppDaemon, but having two motion sensors, one with 1 Minute the other with 5. My test show, that the 5 minute timer somehow overwrites the 1 minute timer, although they are invoked one minute first, five minute second. Or in short: Its works, and I dont know why.