Aqara Zigbee 3.0 Motion Sensor P1 1 Pack, for Alert System Automations

Fast. Stable. Simple. Easy to connect. No cloud if you don't want it. I find the Lux sensors accurate enough to control lighting. The ping light is bright enough to cause a flash do you don't miss it if you need it and it's got great functionality. At about $20 it's a great buy. Smaller than you'd expect, it blends right in!

Easy to install with Aqara hub. Built in integration with Home Assistant to turn lights on and off. Very compact. Suits my needs.

I bought this because I wanted to try it out with Home Assistant. So, I'm running a Raspberry Pi 5 with Home Assistant. I also have the SkyConnect Zigbee/Matter (or is it Thread? it confuses me) antenna connected to the Raspberry Pi running Home Assistant. I enabled pairing mode on the Aqara sensor and performed a search on Home Assistant. It found the sensor right away. I was able to configure a few testing Automations like turning on my Hue lights (I also have a Philips Hue bridge with Hue lights around the house) in the Living Room. Pretty neat having that cross product functionality. The motion sensor is responds quickly and is accurate. It also has a light sensor, but I don't use that functionality; at least not yet. It's zigbee 3.0 but I'm not sure if it is upgradable to Matter in the future. I plan to use this in the kitchen for a night light sensor for under the cabinet LED lights. I think it will work great with Home Assistant, WLED, and BTF light strips under the cabinet. I just have to create an automation that turns on the light strips when motion is detected during a specific time frame. Easy peazy!

Once connected, these Aqara sensors are excellent. Motion detection is fast, battery life is great, and they work perfectly for my Home Assistant automations. The reason for 4 stars is pairing. If you're using a non-Aqara Zigbee coordinator, these can be surprisingly difficult to get connected. Mine took multiple attempts before Home Assistant finally discovered them. Tip: keep the sensor very close to your Zigbee coordinator during the initial pairing and be prepared to reset/re-enter pairing mode several times. Once I got mine joined, I was able to move it to its permanent location and it's been reliable. Great sensor after setup. I just wish pairing with third-party Zigbee networks was easier

The most important thing that you need to know about these motion sensors is they are pass through triggers. Meaning, when you pass one in a hall it will turn on the lights, but no matter how much you stand in front of them waving your hands and jumping up and down like an idiot it will not make the light stay on. Hopefully that just saved you about 6 months of trouble. These are meant to be super fast on conditions but also used as an on /off statue with other sensors to make conditions like "If this is in the off state, this is in the off state, AND the door is closed then > OFF Its controlled by an internal timer that is non user accessible and once triggered that count down timer is counting down to Zero and then shouting of whatever it's paired to regardless if you look like you're trying to wave down the police or not. Then after an a out of user adjustable time, it resets before you can trigger it on again. Let me recapped that point When you go into Aqaras app you will see a "timer interval" this isn't what makes logical sense "I set this to one minute and after that minute the lamp turns off" (Thats the internal timer you can't adjust) The Timer interval is the time AFTER it's counts down and shuts off before it can report its next status state. Once you realize this you set it up differently I have one in front of a door that has a contact sensor then another one of these on the other side of the door. I have the conditions set up that the 2 motion sensors must be in an off state and the contact must be in a closed position before it even thinks about shouting off a light When I walk twards the door the first motion sensor (this aqara) picks me up and just registers motion but doesn't turn the light on in the hall. That's important because opening the door does turn the hall way light on, but now that first motion sensor has to reset before the light turns off where if I just had the contact sensor the door opening would turn it on and closing the contact would turn it off. So you'd turn on a light to the garage by opening the door, but then immediately run it of by closing the door and that's not what you want. You want this sensor to register the movement, start counting down but give you enough time to open and close the door then walk by ANOTHER mition sensor (Philips outdoor) on the other side (inside the garage) that's doing the same thing. Now both the Aqara motion sensor AND the Philips Hue outdoor motion sensor have to read un-uccupied AND the door has to be closed for the light to shut off. And that's not even the end of it! These sensors are ONLY good if you walk directly past then and maybe up to like 5ft so on top of that you have to (do yourself a favor) and buy a Hues Outdoor motion sensor because THAT is a true motion sensor that works the way you expect it to. You set a timer for 5 min and then every time it sense motion it just keeps reseting that internal timer back to 5 minutes over and over again until you finally stop triggering it and time runs out then it shuts off the automation. Sorry this was a long explanation but it took me like 6 months of constant rearranging and changing automations back and forth untill I finally figured all this out the right way because there's nothing that explains it to anyone of you actually wanna keep the lights on while your working lol. Now in my garage alone I have 1 Smart switch 1 of these Aqara walk by sensors 1 contact sensor on the garge door (driveway) 1 contact sensor on the garge (to house) 1 contact sensor on the smgarage door (side) 1 Philips hue outdoor motion sensor to cover the entire garage (inside) 1 Philips hue outdoor sensor on the driveway (for outdoor lights too but also to keep the garage light on if I'm out in the driveway) Every one of those most be either in the closed or or non occupied state for the lights to finally run off So it's not one triggers and starts counting down, then the next trigger does exactly the same and so on otherwise you have the light turning off after 30 sec on for you to wave your arms to get it back on but in the meantime another trigger is secretly counting down and that mights take 2 minutes so you effectively have lights shouting off at all inconsistent random times. This way no timers are being counted it's just all most be verified off before finally shiting of the lights. You almost need a fckin degree for this sht lol THAT is what it takes to properly keep the garage lights on while you're working and of my rough math is working that's about $250 just in a smart switch and sensors So if you think you ever going to do that buy buying one of these motion sensors it's not happening You also have to use basically the same logic in bathrooms that have seperate toilet and closet areas It's all about triggering multiple state awareness then waiting Untill they all converge before something happens BTW if you're just going to get started buy purchasing one at a time, this isn't what you want. You want the Philips Hue motion sensors for in and outside because they actually reset the internal countdown like your brain assumes it should. Good luck 🤙🏻

The battery life advertised of 5-years is completely false. I have tried three of these motion sensors and the batteries died between 1 and 3 weeks on each of the sensors. Up until the batteries died the motion sensor worked great. Other reviewers have reported similar experiences and I can confirm they are correct if the sensor is used in a room where there are people to detect. If you install it inside a closet where the only motion detected is when the closet door is opened, the batteries will probably last longer. This sensor uses two 2450 lithium batteries that cost about $3 each so plan on that recurring cost if you want to use this sensor. But even if you are OK with the $6 battery cost, replacing the batteries is not easy and there is a good chance you may break the sensor trying to remove the batteries. This is because a a long battery holder cylinder has to be pried out to get to the batteries. These two issues make this sensor a bad choice. I have not experienced this with any of the other Aquara Zigbee sensors that I use so this one seems to be a bit of a bad Unicorn.

I bought this unit to automate the lighting in my home office, so that when I am in the room the lights turn on. Setup and integration with Home Assistant, via ZHA and a Sonoff dongle, was simple and automatic. My complaint is that it works to turn the lights on when I walk into the room, but after several minutes sitting at my desk, the lights turn off. I have repeatedly tried to set the unit to "High" sensivity, but it will not reset. It seems fixed on the "Medium" sensitivity setting and it cannot be changed. I do not know whether that is a problem with Home Assistant or with the unit itself, but it will not work for the purpose for which I bought it. I got tired of having to wave my arms around to turn the lights back on every few minutes while working at my computer. I guess I'll have to use it somewhere else, where it doesn't need to be very sensitive, such as by the front door or something.

These are absolutely awesome. I've had some ZIGBEE devices that had to be very close to the communicator or they'd work sporadically if at all. These don't have that issue anywhere in my house. They're also extremely versatile and configurable. They test occupancy, luminance and movement all in this little package. They also come with a nice stand that allows you to aim it in any direction you find most appropriate. EXCELLENT bang for the buck...

First off, this paired quickly and easily with my Sonoff Zigbee stick in Home Assistant, so ignore all of those that say it can only be used with Aqara hubs. It's a great sensor, detecting motion quickly. I like the fact that it also has a luminance sensor that I can automate off of to make the sensor only do stuff if it's dark. Only drawback is the supplied sticky pad only stayed stuck to my door frame for 5 days. Yes, I had cleaned the frame properly beforehand. Also, the sensor itself sticks to the mounting attachment using a sticky pad that they only supply one of. That wouldn't be a problem if it wasn't for the fact that you have to remove it to change the battery. Given that, they should have supplied enough to last the lifetime of the product.

The range is pretty far so set this up high or tape the lower half if you have pets! Works flawlessly on mqtt

Använder dessa tillsammans med Home Assistant, vilket fungerar helt okej. De detekterar gångrörelse mycket bra men har svårare att detektera mindre rörelse såsom viftningar med armar, osv. Går även att smyga förbi sensorerna om detta görs mycket långsamt. Stort plus är att man kan konfigurera sensortiden, osv.

Price, quality, functionality

Motion detection works 100% and easy to link to hub