Xiaomi Vibration Sensor Use Cases

Hardware
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Could you elaborate on that? How is it mounted and how are your automation set up?

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I have one in the cushion of my sofa, you never sit perfectly still so the changes it picks up are a trigger to turn on the living room lights when the sun is below the horizon.

Have tried to change the sensitivity without much luck I think, not sure how to confirm what it is set to at the moment.

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Sensor is placed in a pillow, and any change of state is triggering ā€˜sleep_timeā€™ scene.
Obv You should consider more variables like: time range etc , cause for an example my cat like to trigger sleep mode at 12am :japanese_ogre:

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Hello!! I have the same sensor, there is a way to do only one trigger for each sensor?
Because the sensor have 2 state, vibration or tilt, I have 10 of this sensor so I need to do 20 triggerā€¦
Thanks a lot
Stefano

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I had spares laying around and implemented this. Works great so far.

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I got one on underneath my bedside table. If I tap the table twice it will toggel the light in the bedroom on or off

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Hi!

Would you mind sharing your code for this?
Are you using an automation, template etc?

Thanks a lot!

// Peter

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I bought a xiaomi vibration sensor with the intention of using it as a way of detecting if the drier was running / finished and sending alerts. It failed miserably for this, and after a few months of not finding a use for it we now use it as a miscellaneous security tag.

I have an input boolean set in home assistant that when enabled, and the tag is touched or moved in any way, it triggers an alert to my phone. I can turn on or off the input boolean with google assistant, so I can say aloud ā€œok google turn on the security thingā€ or whatever and this arms it.

It doesnā€™t get used too often, but in recent weeks Iā€™ve used it as a notifier for the letter box a few times (the xiaomi sensor has blutak on the back all the time now), Iā€™ve been putting it on the side gate to be alerted when one of the kids comes home with their bike, and I suspect it may get more use in future now that we have a cat.

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Hello, owners of this sensor :slight_smile:

Could anyone tell me whether this sensor is suitable on doors to detect loud + hard knocking?

Iā€™ve read there are thieves who knock on peopleā€™s front doors while observing the house, if they donā€™t see any activity, they mark it as a target.
My idea is to have this sensor on the inside of the door, set to high sensitivity. If no one is home and knocking is detected, then turn on a few bedroom lights at night.

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Iā€™ve just recently installed it on my washing machine. The washing program is pretty distinctive, the ends all have quite a bit of vibrations to get the water out of the clothes. What I do is using a history statistics sensor in count mode, if there are 5 vibrations reported in the last 10 minutes I trigger an automation that delays another 15min (usually the machine has a couple of minutes after the vibrations before it finishes) and then gives me a push notification on my phone.

@wyx087 I guess it depends how rigid your door is and how hard you knock.

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I have two attached to two vacuum robots without HA integration. I display status and measure cleaning time.

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Hello, I just read this thread. my first thought was the ā€œwashing machineā€ but thatā€™s the classic. The second thought ā€¦ suppose you have a wooden staircase, then you attach a vibration sensor to level 1, and the second vibration sensor to level 7. Through the status query you can now see whether you have gone up or down the stairs.

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Can you share some code of this? Iā€™m also trying to get this to work, but without successā€¦

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Iā€™ll copy paste the code here somewhere this week :slight_smile:

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Automation:

- id: '1580327578161'
  alias: Alert Wasmachine Finished
  description: ''
  trigger:
  - above: '4'
    entity_id: sensor.wasmachine_vibrations
    platform: numeric_state
  condition:
  - condition: state
    entity_id: input_boolean.wasmachine_programma
    state: 'off'
  action:
  - entity_id: input_boolean.wasmachine_programma
    service: input_boolean.turn_on
  - delay: 00:15:00
  - data:
      data:
        tag: 891
      message: Wasmachine is klaar!
    service: notify.mobile_app
  - data:
  - entity_id: input_boolean.wasmachine_programma
    service: input_boolean.turn_off

Sensor:

  - platform: history_stats
    name: Wasmachine Vibrations
    entity_id: sensor.vib_wasmachine_action
    state: 'vibration'
    type: 'count'
    end: '{{ now() }}'
    duration:
      minutes: 10

That should give you a hand in creating your own :slight_smile:

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So after a vibration is detected, 15mins later you already receive a notification?

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If 5 vibrations are detected within 10 minutes, the automation is triggered, I then wait 15min because after the spinning, the machine needs about 10 or so minutes before it is actually finished with the program.

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I will try and see if it also works for my washing machine. Thanks for the info!

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I have tried to use the vibration sensor on both my washer and dryer with no luck. (vibrations are strong enough to trigger the sensor)
I have increased the sensitivity to the max also and its still not enough
Im now contemplating pulling the washing machine apart to mount the sensor directly to the barrel as I can imagine there will be a lot more movement there than on the exterior of the machineā€¦ has anyone tried this approach?

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anyone using this to detect wind and close awnings ?

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