You definitely need an instance of Home Assistant running on a separate piece of hardware (I.e. something aside from the Hubitat hub.)
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Agreed, that's my preferred way to run it too, but if you want to first test the waters, you can start out with a virtual machine or a docker. I started out with a Linux VM, and then moved to a Python VM (which was very fast, but limited and difficult to install), and then finally I imaged the full HA Supervised on a high endurance microSD, installed in a Raspberry Pi 4 8GB. Most of these are super easy to setup, becuase there's an image that has the HA OS and HA, plus the Add-ons all in one. That's been very stable and plenty fast for my needs.
True, but a VM or Docker has to still run on some piece of hardware other than the Hubitat Elevation hub. I was just wanting to make sure that was clear to @Davinci515. 
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True. Virtual hardware running on separate physical hardware
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Wait so I canāt just run it in home kit and set up the virtual switches?
Sure, if you have a device on your home network that can perform the role of an "Apple Home Hub". This needs to be a Apple HomePod Mini or fairly recent Apple TV. And, of course you'll need an iPhone, iPad, or Mac to configure things on the Apple Home side of things.
The "Apple Home Hub" is needed to run the automations that will make use of the Hubitat Virtual Switches that your share to Apple HomeKit.
So, your options today to use a Aqara FP2 with Hubitat are:
FP2 -> Genuine Apple HomeKit (Automations) -> HE Virtual Switches (as described above - requires additional Genuine Apple hardware) LOCAL
FP2 -> Amazon Alexa (Alexa Routines) -> HE Virtual Switches (requires no hardware, but does require Alexa Cloud) CLOUD
FP2 -> Home Assistant (via HomeKit Device Integration) -> Hubitat (via HADB Integration) (requires additional hardware running Home Assistant) LOCAL
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Thanks for the info, guess Iāll be returning it for now lmao. Already have more Google minis than I need, not a fan of HomeKit or Apple in general (so over priced) but I do have a iPhone. Went with hubitat over home assist due to feeling like it was too much to bite off while trying to figure out everything else lol. Hopefully the matter integration is released soon
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It might be possible using Google Home as well, but that would also involve a Cloud-based solution. I am not 100% certain if this works or not...
FP2 -> Google Home (Google Home Routines) -> HE Virtual Switches (requires no hardware, but does require Google Cloud) CLOUD
And it also looks like IFTTT might be another option.
I am wondering how much the sleep monitoring service will be when they start charging for it (a little omission in most articles I've seen).
Could be big money. Employers might start buying these and pointing them at cubicals to catch their employees nodding-off 
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Cubicals are so pre-pandeminc, people already forgot what they are.
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Forgive me. Haven't worked outside of my home office (other than site visits) since 2012.
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Agara FP2 users, how are you satisfied with these sensors?
And how are you using them in automation(s) if you actually using them?
I bought two of FP2s long time ago but even with the latest firmware update these sensors
still are nothing more than nice expensive toys. Once in while I am playing with one FP2 installed
in the Living Room with 4 zones defined (second one is in the spare drawer). Sensor actually
works but it is very unreliable leaving ghosts 3-4 times out of 10 trigger events. This way it
absolutely cannot be used in any automation(s).
From the other side I am very happy with Linptech sensors. I have two of them installed in
a Bathroom and Kitchen. They are very reliable and maybe failing 1 out of 1000 trigger events.
I'm only using one. Really cannot justify two of them. I have it in my kitchen above the cabinet, which points out toward our dining/living room area. This has turned out to be ideal for this space and it covers two zones in the kitchen, two zones in the dining room, and the living room zone. Brilliant little device.
I'm still on version 1.9 and really don't know if it creates ghosts all the time or not. I didn't have any that stuck around long enough to worry about when I looked at the Aqara app last. Now that it's setup, I really don't touch the app. Seems to work perfectly in HA and sends that to HE as motion sensor events via HADB for my HE automations.
Totally satisfied with it and for me, it's very reliable.
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I am glad, it works for you reliably. Unfortunately in my case no matter how hard I am trying
to play with settings failure rate is absolutely unacceptable. So, for me it is still expensive toy.
My company has no work from home, and everyone is in office. 
No plans to change that any time soon. So far not having any issues recruiting or retaining people either.
And cubicles are definitely still in existence here.
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@vitaliy_kh,
Me too, after many complaints from the family in the past with unreliable motion sensors in the bathroom & shower and being unable to use radar presence sensors in the bathroom; the FP2 has proven to be the most reliable even with a setting of turn off after 10 seconds of inactivity.
FP2 1 - Bathroom
FP2 2 - Hallway (moved from living/kitchen - using two radar presence sensors instead, linptech and 24Ghz radar)
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Same here. I have one FP2 that I use as my only āmotion sensorā in our family room. It is used to both trigger lighting automations and to turn lights off as well. In other words, I am not using a PIR for this part of the house. We tend to sit fairly still while watching television, and the old PIR sensors always turned off the lights when we werenāt moving enough. The FP2 has been doing great (except for the recent introduction of the Christmas Tree, which blocks its view partially! 
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Hey Vitaliy_kh,
The reason why it's working so well and usable is due to HA. The HA community has tons of support for integrations. If you have the time and the hardware it's a great combination to lockdown your automations.
I really don't have the time, nor the hardware at this time. I am trying to keep a minimalistic approach toward my home automations.
If this is not the case for you , I recommend it!
