Xiaomi Human / Body / Motion Sensor - Timeout

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Hi,

Did someone try this out already ?

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Aqara motion sensor can be easily hacked to report motion every 5s instead of 60s which makes it much more usable…

I have some time today, I will check this out and let you guys know

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I followed soldering guide for pins T4 with a transistor, as @syssi mentioned, but nothing happened. I could connect it throughg deconz but when I move around it it not detects anything.

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Hi all,

i use hassio version 0.102.3 and want to use “Xiaomi motion sensor hack”:

Currently, if a i connect the 2 points (described in the link), the motion sensor sends always “occupancy=true”, it goes never back to false.

Must i set this state manually or is there any other solutions?
Or what is the best way to achieve it, that the motion sensor detects motion every 10 seconds?

Or works this solution furthermore?

  1. Modded one (two others are not modded, connected to the same gateway) of my aqua sensors (I can see in the Xiaomi Home app that the mod worked)
  2. created a folder ‘custom_components’ in ‘config’ folder
  3. created a folder ‘xiaomi_aqara’ in ‘custom_components’ folder
  4. uploaded binary_sensory.py and init .py from ‘https://github.com/syssi/home-assistant/tree/feature/xiaomi-aqara-modded-motion-sensor/homeassistant/components/xiaomi_aqara ’ to ‘xiaomi_aqara’ folder
  5. restarted home assistant

thank you for your help

luetter

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Try resetting the sensor state after a certain amount of time based on your needs.
I have some modded Aqara motion sensors and I reset the sensor state after 5 seconds through an automation. It works just fine.

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How do you reset the sensor state? Mind sharing your automation please?

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- id: '1578279316231'
  alias: Reset Sensor state
  description: ''
  trigger:
  - entity_id: binary_sensor.stairs
    for: 00:00:05
    from: 'off'
    platform: state
    to: 'on'
  condition: []
  action:
  - data_template:
      entity_id: binary_sensor.stairs
      state: 'off'
    service: python_script.set_state

The Set State script can be found here
https://github.com/rodpayne/home-assistant/blob/77293b434ca30acff1b43d6ec81374061950e34b/.homeassistant/python_scripts/set_state.py

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So Home Assistant thinks that it was only on for 5 sec.
Thanks!
This fixes half the issues.
But does the sensor trigger again in less than 3min? (or what’s it’s default value?)

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No, unless you do the hardware mod to the sensors, which you can find here on the forum and requires literally 1 minute per sensor. Then you’re able to trigger the sensor as many times as you wish.

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Hey critical2104,

I just got my first four Aqara Sensors in the mail and immediately modded one of them (the option of doing so was the main reason i got them), added it to Raspbee/Phoscon in HA and only then realized that the hardware-mod alone dose not make HA recognise the 5sec reset. So i went online and found your Post. I’m very new to HA and still struggle with the coding part of it. Could you maybe take me through the steps on how exactly to make this work? Where and how do i place that automation-script and where the Python-Script ? It seems one has to create an automation for each sensor? Is there any way of having all registered sensors resetting after 5sec? (I plan on adding quite a few more, all of them modded)

Thank you in advance!

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Hey, if you’re using deConz you can use the following automation (put this in your automations.yaml file) to make the sensor states reset after 5 seconds. This uses a service deconz exposes to HA so it’s much simpler. You can copy the service part for as many sensors as you have.

- alias: 'Xiaomi Aqara Motion Sensors duration fix'
  trigger:
    - platform: homeassistant
      event: start
  action:
    - service: deconz.configure
      data:
        entity: binary_sensor.motion_sensor_name
        field: "/config"
        data: {"duration": 5}
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This. Just. Works. The knowledge of this forum never seizes to amaze me! You are the King, marcelod!

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there are any update to use the modding with the gateway xiaomi?

actually, i use the mod with the zigbee2mqtt

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@Aiace88 do you use the decent.configure with zigbee2mqtt?

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i use a old configuration of zigbee2mqtt but it’s work.

i request is possibile use the modding without the zigbee2mqtt, use only the gateway.

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This is great, thank you so much! Thanks to the hardware hack and your solution I can do miracles now with the Aquara sensors :slight_smile:

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Thanks a million for this :smiley:

Works perfectly!!!

So much better than me trying to solder little bits & breaking things!

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Wow, this is cool, but isn’t a one-time configure not enough? Is it not persistent?

I have not tested it yet, so it actually means that also the state in phoscon is changing every 5 sec? Or is it still there in motion detected state? So there is just another event coming in?

Because I saw a hack earlier, to just set the state to OFF on a binary sensor after 5 sec, but that didn’t work either

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I changed over to it this morning, and can confirm that it works & is persistent.

I have been walking back & forth and it spots me every time.

It’s not simply resetting the state, the sensor ‘cools down’ after 5 seconds - and is ready to detect again.

(With deConz, Conbee 2, Hassio on a Pi 4)

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cool, so we can delete that automation after the first restart of HA, its not needed anymore, only if you want to go back to the 90 sec default setiing
so in other words, you see the “motion deteced” / “not detected” state in phoscon changing every 5 sec?
so also, the binary sensor in HA actually changing every 5 sec?

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Yes in Phoscon, and Yes in binary sensor :slight_smile:

I’ve left the automation in, so it’s easy to change the duration.

Plus, if anyone is looking in the windows they probably think I’ve gone crazy walking back and forth the past few hours!