I have my FP2 running 1.1.9 with no issues. Performance is pretty darn snappy, no stubborn ghosts (those that are left behind in a zone after I leave it seem to disappear in less than 1 minute), no need to reboot anything, etc... I do use an old, genuine iPhone charger as my power supply for the FP2. I wonder if using an inadequate power supply could cause any issues with these devices? Just a hypothesis.
I do believe some people may not truly understand how these mmWave sensors work, and what the limitations are of such a sensor. Anything that moves at all, even just a little, will cause it to sense something in the room. One needs to be patient, and adjust the sensitivity settings for the specific environment, and properly identify 'interference' sources in each zone to prevent false alarms.
Ah that would be nice, but I've got it on a 3 amp supply, so that's not likely the cause. Little concerned about the supply I use with it, as that's how I fried my first two. I'll bite the bullet and update based on your feedback (promise not to blame you if it doesn't work out well for me ).
Meh. It's cool that you can hold on a ghost and hit a trash can icon to delete it. For anyone unfamiliar with the new feature, it asks if you want to set it as an interference zone, or just delete it. But, I didn't need to do that in 1.1.5 and now in 1.1.9, I occasionally do.
I'll give it a few days and post an update here. I've already tried resetting the absence status again, but that didn't eliminate the ghosts that are now hanging around every so often. Maybe there's some on-device ML that will improve things over time. I think I'll also just let it stay connected to the Xiaomi servers for a few days. I did that in beginning with 1.1.5 so it makes sense to repeat the steps the worked in the beginning. There's a possibility the ML is done in their cloud and then synced to the device.
Generally it's more responsive, I do see that. Position tracking seems to be more precise and responsive as well. Not all bad.
I updated to 1.1.9 and have had no issues, I may get the occasional ghost but I haven't been impacted so don't check the app to see. Also seems to be a little more responsive as well now, not fast enough that I could set up a zone for each light in my hallway and have them turn on instantly when I hit the zone but seems better than before and my zones cover two down-lights each which seems to work well I think it is at the point where I can now go and fine tune it though.
I’m not looking at the app unless I want to delete a ghost. I can confirm what others have said, is that it also shows up in home assistant as detected when nothing is there.
However, those ghosts do seem to now be timing out and vanishing, so that’s good news. Hoping it progressively performs better over the next few days.
If anyone is in doubt about upgrading, I can confirm that while 1.1.9 doesn't always clear a zone as fast as it did on 1.1.6, it does report the zone as Clear in HA within a minute (internet blocked too). For me, this is fine and no different than I've come to expect from most motion sensors. If you need it to report Clear quicker, then you might want to stay on an earlier version if you have that choice.
Additionally, I'm now free from having to reboot my FP2 every week since updating to 1.1.9 from 1.1.6.
My zones are clearing within 1-2 seconds, so I'm pretty happy. Ghosting is almost non-existent so far. Much happier.
Now if I could get my FP1s to work with the new regions/grid-aware driver from Jonathan. During troubleshooting I ended up trying to re-pair these things and now they don't seem to work at all. Definitely not super pleased with C8 in this regard.
We have one in our bedroom to detect presence in bed and it generally works. We did however have to combine it with a pressure sensor as otherwise it seems to go from not present to present quite often during the night, so certainly not perfect.
I've found the sleep detection much better this summer than I did when we first got it (still winter). I'm waiting until next winter to see if that's because the firmware got better or if it's because we're sleeping with a lighter cover over us in the summer.
I added a bluetooth sensor in the bedroom and paired our watches to it for added presence detection in the bedroom.
Before someone asks, I use HomeAssistant as my main "brain" for home automation (Hubitat is used as basically a Z-Wave/Zigbee bridge), so both the FP2s and the ESPresence bluetooth stuff are in HA. But the principle is the same.
My two FP2 are basically useless and I am ready to get rid of these toys.
I am in Sunny Isles Beach, Florida. If any one wants these two toys please
give me a reasonable price and you are welcome to pick them up.
I am sorry, but I am to...o lazy to ship them out, self pickup is OK.
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I think it is at the point where I can now go and fine tune it though.
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