Xiaomi Aqara Human Presence motion sensor direct zha connection

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Hello!

Has anyone ever used the Xiaomi Aqara Human presence sensor directly with with a Zigbee USB dongle, without deConz or the Aqara bridge?

I tried to set them up, and found that two sensors are added to my system:

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The binary_sensor component stays stuck on “Off” all of the time, and even has a different icon than the other sensors (see pictures).

sensor.lumi_lumisensor_motionaq2_0200bxxx_1_1024
The sensor has a unit of LX and reports luminosity. From what I’ve seen, luminosity is only reported when motion is detected, which seems to be the expected behavior, and I am ok with that.

I am running Hass.io 0.73.1 on RasPi with a HUSBZB-1 USB Zigbee/Z-Wave dongle.

Thank you for your help!

lumi

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Update:
So far it seems I only get luminosity sensor updates where motion events are detected.

I have created an automation that gets triggered wherever there is a state change in the luminosity sensor, and it seems to be working at capturing the motion events.

I’ll test it over the coming few days.

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You are the first one trying this out as far as I know. Please evaluate and report back!

/R

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Have you seen this thread out of interest, might be something like what you are after.

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I’ve been fiddling with this, and it seems there are some issues with the aquara sensors… hope this will help !

https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/issues/15477

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Thanks!

I’ll give it a look and report back!

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Thanks Cee! I’ve seen this, but I was trying to avoid adding more moving parts (zigbee2mqtt) to my system.
I guess I’ll explore this route as well and see how it works out.

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Hey, just an update… I haven’t been able to figure it out using the zha component, looking at the debug logs, I do get the updates from the device but the HA state is never updated.

I ended up going with Yoda-X’s zha_new custom component instead, and it seems to work well so far.

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I have a body sensor on the way, but will probably just run it through the hub. I have two door sensor’s that run off it all ok at the moment. Tried to run the Zigbee2mqtt, but kept getting missed results. I have the Xiaomi gateway sandboxed anyway, so it can’t talk home or anything just in case.

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Have the same issue with the same sensor.
Is enabling zha_new custom component as easy as adding it to config?
UPD.: Ah, sorry. I need to clone a repository as custom component. Will try and report.