Aqara FP1 and P1 motion sensors

SmartHomePrimer · May 2, 2022, 2:42am

Joins to Hubitat as Device, but there's no driver that works with it. None of the existing Aqara motion sensor drivers work. No motion state appears.

Here's the fingerprint, but I doubt that's going to help anything. Someone that knows how to write drivers needs to have one of these. That person is not me.

It doesn't join to the Mijia hub. They don't have a profile for the Aqara T1 or P1 devices, but it does join to HA using the Mijia Multimode hub as the controller with Zigbee HA, but again, it doesn't have a driver so no motion entity appears.

However, it does join to the Aqara HomeKit hub (the non E1 version) that is unsupported. You just have to tell the hub you're joining a T1 motion sensor and it pairs with all the options available.

But there's a catch when using it with the unsupported hub. Tapping more settings lets you get to the unique features of the sensor and do the stuff you couldn't do with the original sensor without physical modification.

Right after pairing, it will respond to adjusting the detection interval, turning the trigger indicator on or off, and setting the sensitivity.

But after a while, it stops responding to the settings changes, and will give you a failed to configure message.

You then have to remove the devices and rejoin it so you can get that short window to make changes to its configuration. But that seems to be a viable workaround.

It takes quite a long time to appear in HomeKit, but it eventually does. No settings can be changed in HomeKit, and even if you have the sensor configured to respond at quick intervals (10 seconds for example), HomeKit will not reset to no motion detected in less time than 30 seconds. Not unexpected, and it still makes the sensor useful for capturing motion frequently to keep lights on or capture every movement possible.

Not prefect, but not horrible either. As long as it keeps working with the Aqara hub I have, I'll keep it and just trigger a Hubitat Virtual Switch via HomeKit Automations.

aaiyar · May 3, 2022, 8:25pm

zigbee2mqtt just added support for the Aqara P1 sensors in the latest release - 1.25.1.

rocketwiz · May 3, 2022, 9:49pm

I love my z2m setup. Rock solid with all sorts of weird zigbee devices which would cause my HE to have a heart attack.

SmartHomePrimer · May 4, 2022, 2:27am

Going to have to do a backup of my HA and try again with Zigbee2MQTT. Couldn’t get it going on a VM. It would not display the Web UI no matter how many times I reinstalled it, restarted, etc. I’m fairly certain it’s just overtaxed. I’m sure the Raspberry Pi 4 will have no trouble with it, but I just built it and have it running exactly how I want, so I’m a little apprehensive about messing with the setup. Might just order another micro SD to make it safer to play with the setup.

mraz.camren · May 4, 2022, 3:23am

Where and how did you setup the zigbee2mqtt?

aaiyar · May 4, 2022, 4:46am

I documented my setup on a smoke and mirrors site more than a year ago. In short, I bring my zigbee2mqtt devices into NodeRED, and then back into Hubitat using virtual devices, using either built-in drivers, or ones that I wrote.

If I was doing it over again, I would just use HA, and Home Assistant Device Bridge to bring them into Hubitat.

SmartHomePrimer · May 6, 2022, 12:08am

Can confirm this works great with Zigbee2MQTTT, and it has every control except the ability to enable/disable the LED. They either disable it by default, or maybe it gets written in non-volatile space, because I did have it disabled before using the Aqara hub and it has stayed disabled after resetting the device and joining it to the ConBee 2. That would make sense, as there's the update wait time as shown in that previously posted image, when you change the optional settings.

Temperature is supposed to work, but doesn't work for me. I got Null for some of the other Xiaomi devices, but joining them again resolved that. Didn't happen here. Maybe my ConBee firmware is out of date. It's been a while. But I just spent the time to add my devices and reconfigure RM rules to use the entities that are coming from z2m. This is working and I'm not going to update the ConBee 2 so I can maybe get some inaccurate temperature I don't even really care about, and then have to re-join everything as punishment.

[Update 5.7.2022] Lights in the garage didn’t turn on when expected. Checked z2m exposure settings and found it was back on Medium sensitivity. I’m not going to say that’s a problem right now, because it may have been me setting it to Medium accidentally. However, it has the same issue that I had with it on the Aqara HomeKit v1 hub. Had to re-join it to get it to change sensitivity level. Might be a problem with the device firmware, rather than the controllers. No firmware update available for it on either the Aqara hub or Z2m at this time.

user1042 · May 20, 2022, 10:57pm

Hello, I'm new here. I have question about driver.
So, this driver works for me:

if I change condition at line [90]
from this
if (cluster == "0406")
to this:
if (cluster == "FCC0")

But I do not see lux messages.
And the icon on dashboard is preaty generic.
Who is writing all this drivers?
And when can I expect some stabile version ?

aaiyar · May 20, 2022, 11:08pm

There are built-in drivers only for devices on the compatibility list. Xiaomi devices are not on the compatible devices list because they don’t use standard ZHA 1.2 or zigbee 3.0.

There are plenty of community drivers for these devices written by volunteer developers from the community. However, none of them can guarantee that your specific devices will function as you expect - their function differs substantially dependent on the repeaters in your zigbee mesh, and the RF conditions at your install location.

For an optimal experience with Hubitat, I would recommend sticking with devices on the compatible devices list.

sgrimbl · May 24, 2022, 11:50pm

So there are 2 new features with this sensor:

5 years of battery instead of 2 years ( not a deal-breaker for me as the batteries are replaceable)
configurable detection timeout
isn't a timeout/delay something that is already possible via HE rules or am I missing somthing here?

sgrimbl · May 25, 2022, 12:56pm

Nevermind I already found that the P1 allows seconds timeout and the older version starts at a minute.

sgrimbl · May 26, 2022, 11:31pm

Just bought one from Aliexpress, just for the fun of it. Hope someone we'll be able to integrate it into HE.

rocketwiz · May 27, 2022, 12:08am

Have you got a link? I have not been able to find any there.

sgrimbl · May 27, 2022, 12:13am

It goes in and out of stock.
It was in stock yesterday, I hesitated a bit and it was gone after 10 minutes. Checked again today and it was there so I bought one, but now it's out of stock again. Try to refresh the page later today or tomorrow.

user1218 · June 3, 2022, 12:27am

Did you ever figure this out? I am using the Sonoff Zigbee 3.0 USB Dongle Plus, Z2M and Mosquito as the broker. I have it working, but when I change the settings like sensitivity or interval, they revert back to the default (meaning they never seem to save). I have seen a few posts that seem to indicate that when you change the settings when using the Aqara Hub you have to press the button on the P1 right after changing the settings in their app so that it wakes up the P1 and saves the settings. I am not using their hub as I said, however I wonder if these same steps are necessary when changing the settings via the Z2M? I have not tried it yet.

SmartHomePrimer · June 3, 2022, 4:50am

I don't know about pushing the button being effective. I had to join again to get it to stick. Haven't messed with it since last time. The settings are the same as I left them last (High sensitivity, and 30 second reset).

user1218 · June 3, 2022, 5:51am

UPDATE: I was able to get the settings to stick. I went into the Zigbee2Mqtt from the sidebar, clicked on the the Aqara P1 in my list of Z2M devices, selected the "Exposes" tab, and then changed the settings, and then hit the set button on the back of the P1 within 10 seconds (you may have a little longer than that but if I waited too long it gave me an error saying it timed out). After I pressed the set button on the P1 the light flashed blue and the settings were saved.

jasonbalsor · June 17, 2022, 5:10pm

Anyone manage to get the P1 to work directly with Hubitat yet? Just had one delivered.

SmartHomePrimer · June 19, 2022, 1:21am

I think you’re going to want to get HA and Home Assistant Device Bridge going. It has not gone over well

But it works with Zigbee2MQTT on HA and I bring that back into Hubitat. I know people are resistant to adding another hub for Aqara devices, but you can use all of them with Hubitat without worrying about drops or other issues. Plus you can use a ton of other devices and cloud only integrations beyond Aqara. It’s easily the best addition to my Hubitat hubs that I’ve ever made.

BrunoVoeten · June 19, 2022, 2:09pm

what's stopping you from switching to HA completely?