Aqara FP2 presence sensor

Supported devices: Hub G3; Camera Hub G2H Pro; Doorbell G410; Doorbell G4; Hub M3; Hub M100; Presence Sensor FP2; Presence Multi-Sensor FP300; Door Lock A100; Door Lock A100 Pro; Smart Lock U200; Smart Lock U200 Lite; Smart Video Door Lock Xingyao (全自动智能猫眼门锁 星耀); Supported devices reference.

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With Black Friday around the corner, is aqara fp2 still the best presence sensor available?. I’ve been itching to switch to an mmWave sensor to start using it for zones but the aqaras price always turned me off. Since they’re doing a big sale I was wondering if the fp2 is still the best mmWave sensor you can buy or if one of the many esphome based alternatives that have been popping up lately are the same/better?

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Presence detection with mmWave sensors for ESPhome DIY or premade from a company like the Aqara FP2 sensor which offers 30 zones you can set to trigger automations when a zone is entered by a person. The best feature of the mmWave technology is it can tell when a person is absent immediately. This is great for triggering lights and things like tv set ups, playlists and all sorts of even more cleaver ideas.

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Aqara FP2 I have 2 big cats (maine coons), a wife and a 4 yo child. Zone is ~40m2 I'm using it to detect in front of the tv (pause/unpause), light up living room, kitchen, sink lights and corridor (bar between living room and kitchen, fp2 can see above it only) It's pretty reliable and detects cats and vacuum robots as "not human" the only issue I have is when *I* am in front of the detector: fp2 can't see through me 😂. I like the fact that wife and I can watch tv on the couch and it keeps our presence live Plus a little neo zwave pir battery powered detector in the corridor that's too far …

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FP2 is a really good one, FP300 I think is not out yet, I also recommend combination with Door/Window, and Temperature/Humidity sensors Zigbee if possible, this will give you a great initial approach.

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2. Forget motion sensors. Get an Aqara FP2 or Lewis Everything Presence One. The radar will actually pinpoint people in the room, even without movement. 3. Seeed Studio reTerminal E ePaper with ESPHome: Not cheap or colorful, but it has good contrast and is very power-efficient. You can have no worries about leaving it on. Android TVs may also make decent HA displays.

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I have both. The 2A is superior. First sensor I've had that has properly solved my open dining area problem - I walk to the dining table, light goes on and stays on while I eat. I get up and walk away, light goes off. It's like magic. The FP2 is not nearly as reliable. And the seeing through walls is no problem, since I can pretty reliably define zones by X/Y distance and the 2A tells me what's going on inside that zone. They even give you a nice person tracking widget for your HA dashboard. I'm planning to keep buying 2As. I've tested quite a few mmWave sensors and this is the best of the …

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I've been unable to make the fp2 work with Z2M, so I gave up and am using it as a homekit device inside HA. but I use it only for presence, so I don't know about fall detection

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To anyone finding mmWave presence sensor unreliable, remember to calibrate he sensors. Their position and direction matters, as well as the gate thresholds. Anything moving will have some effect on the detection, because the sensors reacts on the movement of your chest when breathing. Even the window blinds when there's a gust. Therefore if you want even fewer false triggers, use PIR to turn on the lights and mmWave to turn off.

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I bought 2 and returned them. Both were showing ghosts. I didn’t want to know that I had ghosts in my place.

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I use my FP2 daily with HomeKit. Did have to set it up with the aqara app, but that’s not a huge deal.

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… experience. I don't have a single matter enabled device in my setup, all ZigBee, BT, and the odd WiFi service I've not got rid of yet (looking at you Aqara FP2!). Think my most useful automations are the ones which control my lightning, including switching which lights are used when, and changing color and brightness based on time and state of other devices / automations. Others include alerts for start/finish washing machine/tumble dryer/dishwasher. Alerts for rain from the weather station in the garden (for washing on the line). Automations for bedtime / morning. Automations for fans linked …

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… Pulse is looking for the integration with domain `homekit_controller`, but it cannot find it. The 'Homekit Device' Integration is installed and the 4x Aqara Presence Sensor FP2 are online and not impacted after restarting HA. Not sure why Device Pulse loses them after a restart. Any ideas?

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Not all Aqara products runs on Zigbee. I’ve got the FP2 that I’ve had difficulty adding to Home Assistant and now that it’s been added, not all functions are exposed. Like zones. Maybe I’m missing something.

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I have the new fp2 presence sensors and a couple of camera g3h. The sensor often freeze in presence sates and no matter how much i tinker with settings and reset them, they keep doing that. Cameras are pretty much exclusive to homekit and their aqara crap app, not working in google home or homeassistant nor supporting rstp. So the homeassistant integration for the presence sensors has to be done via homekit only and the camera pretty much is useless even if paired using matter. Also the zigbee devices are not really using the open zigbee standard either, they are limiting features if used …

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The problem I recently changed my network system to Unifi and since then it seems to be giving me some issues with adding Matter devices such as Aqara FP2 sensor or Kasa smart plugs. I currently have Google Nest, Apple TV 4K and Aqara M3 (just in case it needed it to connect), but when I add them to their respective apps then check Apple Home app, it shows as not responsive and then when I remove it and try to add to the Matter (BETA), it just hangs there saying its connecting or cannot connect to it. ### What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue? core-2024.8.2 ### What was the last …

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