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.
Yes, both are updated to the latest 1.1.9 firmware.
The biggest problem with these FP2s - they are sensitive to even very little air movements.
i tried to reduce sensitivity and to create restrictions, etc. Sensors actually working
but do not produce reliable presence data and therefore they are useless for the automations.
I bought few Zigbee Tuya mmWave sensors. These cannot be pared directly with C8
(seems to be known problem) but have no pairing problems with C7 and these are
very reliable and also looking good (small square flat white box). My wife even did
not notice one in a bathroom.
I am confused, if I am correct there is only hardware version of FP2.
Yes, the firmware is upgradable and my two are on the latest version 1.1.9
If you want them (both at the same time, I don't want to split them)
you are welcome to pick them up. Sorry but I don't want to deal with any
shipping. And these toys are not free, you have to make me a reasonable offer.
Sorry about that, I am at work and was not completely paying attention. Which version of the Zigbee Tuya mmWave sensors did you get? Do you happen to have the link for it?
Just a thought. If you're having trouble finding a local buyer for your FP2s, maybe just hang on to them and ceiling mount them some day for fall detection. None of us are getting any younger. Might come in handy.
I got Tuya Human Presence sensors, Zigbee, Wall Mounted version:
Warning! They are not pairing directly with C8 but C7 + HubMesh is working very well.
These sensors are a bit noisy, i.e. they are sending a lot of unnecessary messages.
Because of these phenomena I did not expose them to C8 "as is". Instead I created
a Virtual MS on C7, Mirror Tuya Sensor only motion attribute to this Virtual MS and
exposed VMS to the C8. The result is - no garble messages are sending across Hum Mesh.
Also fine tuning of the Tuya Sensors (and I am sure, all mmWave sensors) is very tricky.
These sensors are seeing through the walls. In the Bathroom it took me two attempts
to find a right place/angle for the sensor mounting. And then I tried many different
combinations of sensitivity, maxDistance and fadingTime before sensor started to
produce very reliable and trusted presence results. Now I am in a middle of fine tuning
similar sensor in the Kitchen (getting very close to finalize placement and settings).
But, unfortunately nothing worked for the FP2 sensors. These are producing well
too many falls detections.
Sure. If nobody is willing to pick them up they will go into "spare toys" drawer.
Who knows, maybe one day they will be somewhat useful. But by this time
something much better could become available.
So integration of the FP2 into Home assistant, then link those presence devices into hubitat is the best current way of integrating this still? Seems that way but just checking in case I've missed something.
