Just seen an interesting video on You Tube. The guy tested contact sensors for a 4 month period and recommended an Aquara as the best overall for size, price, battery...etc. [This sensor is TWICE as good as the rest!? The BEST door and window sensor is from Aqara.] Don't see them liste…

[image] macdenewf: apparently they are a standard zigbee so expect a generic zigbee driver will work It has been my experience with other aquara sensors that they are not, in fact, standard zigbee. Some folks have good luck with them, I have not. See thread here: [image] S…

I think it depends which xiaomi/aqara devices the video is referring to. I believe they have newer, zigbee 3.0 devices. Their older devices are non-standard zigbee. I've never used any of them.

I took it at face value that they would work as the guy calls out Home Assistant, Start Things and Habitat in the video ..but that dent mean that he checked! Might buy a couple just to see how they perform. Cheers

Don't believe everything you hear on the internet :wink:.

In my case once bitten, twice shy! Would be interesting to get HE's take and see if they want to add them to the compatibility list. That's always a pretty good indication!

[image] macdenewf: apparently they are a standard zigbee so expect a generic zigbee driver will work. Can confirm that the older ones are not. The newer Aqara E1 sensors seem to be locked to Xiaomi hubs; although there are ways around it .

I had bad experiences with drop off despite a strong mesh and I really didn't want to have to buy additional repeaters for them just to keep them on the mesh. Sonoff on the other hand have been pretty solid for me.

Are the newer "E1" sensors the Zigbee 3.0 versions? His test was of the MCCGQ11LM, which I believe can be problematic for HE users. There is a new ZB 3.0 version coming, MCCGQ12LM, but it's not available outside of China yet as far as I can tell. Aqara also has a true presence sensor coming that l…

[image] gwydionjhr: Are the newer "E1" sensors the Zigbee 3.0 versions? Yup.

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Other methods are hit and mis. This is solid.