I have a AEOTEC MultiSensor 6 that i’m trying to use to turn on the kitchen lights when I walk in the kitchen.
i have the automations working (after some trial and error and searching on the forum ), but the problem that I still have is the response time.
When I trigger the sensor (wave my hand in front of it), HA doesn’t respond immediately. I need to go to the z-wave panel and press refresh to get the new state of the sensor. I could probably also wait a couple of minutes, but i’m too impatient for that during testing…
This obviously defeats the purpose of a motion sensor to turn on lights; I need the lights to turn on immediately when I walk in the kitchen, not after a couple of minutes.
I did see the polling_interval parameter in the documentation, but that explicitly states that it should not be lower than 30s, which doesn’t solve this issue…
While searching the forum I did see a reference to a ‘hail’ setting, but can’t find where to set that.
So what do I do to get this state change reflected in HA immediately?
I’m running a Pi3, used the all-in-one installer and use the Gen5 Z-stick on the pi.
I’m on HA version 49.1.
I don’t have an AEOTEC multisensor, but you can try to change the motion sensor interval using the Zwave panel.
First, take down the Multisensor off the wall, because you will have to “wake it up” for any settings to change to “stick”
Open the Zwave Panel in the sidebar in HA. Under Zwave Node Management, select your multisensor. Go all the way down to “Node Config Options” and then click on the “Config Parameter” dropdown and see if you can find something like “Motion Sensor Trigger Interval”. After you select that, there might be something that indicates the reporting interval. Change that to something you like and then click on “set config parameter”. That should cache the change until the device wakes up. You would then “wake” the device up by pressing the “action” button specified in the instructions here: https://aeotec.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/6000057073-multisensor-6-user-guide-
After the device wakes up, it should poll the controller for the change you just made…
It turns out that it was something else, but i found that because you put me on the right track.
The issue was that the motion sensor wasn’t defined as binary. I thought i had set that, but apparently it didn’t stick when I did.
Following your instructions I was able to get to setting ‘5: Command Options’ and set that to binary. That did the trick.
Wake the sensor up, restart home assistant and you will see your sensors in the entity list. It’s an “normal” procedure when you added new battery powered devices.
), but the problem that I still have is the response time.