The best Zigbee Motion Sensor - Aqara P1 in Home Assistant

In this video I'm going to take a look at the new Zigbee Aqara P1 Motion sensor with quite possibly my favourite feature of all motion sensors... adjustable timeouts!!! It's brilliant!

I'll also configure it in Home Assistant with Zigbee2MQTT, and node red AND compare it with the original Aqara Motion detector!

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[mrd-dmr]

I just got this sensor based on this review and others like it. What no review mentions (and I only found out first-hand and later reading about it on reddit and the home assistant community discourse) is the awful range of motion detection. Testing it in perfect conditions (chest-level placement, clear field of view, dead on center from the sensor), it only detects me up to 2 meters (6.5 feet). Putting it up in a corner, that range drops to less than 1.5 meters.
This is extremely disappointing, especially as I also have the original aqara motion sensor, which works perfectly in my hallway (over 5 meters range).
The fact that no reviewer mentioned this (and it's actually a widespread complaint if you go read comment sections) shows that none of them actually use the equipment they're reviewing.

[MarcoSpelde]

I ordered an Aqara motion sensor just before watching this video. Bummed to find out I ordered the "older" model with his 90 seconds drop off time. Installed it today and to my surprise, in the settings there was a drop off option ! Set it to 5 seconds, pressed the little button and voila, 5 second drop off!

[roberthuberty]

Thanks for this video, especially for the way to change the timer, that's very usefull information. In node red, you can also use stoptimer that is timer you specify the amount of time and this one will reset on input (new motion detection in this case), I use it with a switch to combine two motion sensor to control one light.

[valentinene]

Great video, thanks. For the delay part I'm using which resets the timer every time a new message comes in. It also can be set to show a countdown in real-time, which I find very useful

[alanorourke]

A great video
Make more node red video exlaining more nodes

[acassels]

Great logic in node red - any chance you could include the code in the description?

[MynameisEGIS]

So you can tie it straight to home assistant and that aquara hub is not necessary?

[bjarkesoegaard]

Thx - I learn a lot from you - Node Red is cool :-)

[carlosriquinha]

thanks for the video and for the node-red walk-through. I have been trying to learn node red given how powerful it is. any suggestions on resources?

[briandurward]

Very good video. I'm stuck with a interval of 30s. Just can't change it either in zigbee2mqtt or node red. Any thoughts?

[iikkakonola]

There are numerous posts complaining about the short range and then there are mmwave sensors available, so I would consider changing the topic on this video as it makes claims that are nowhere near truth.

[bsm]

Great video as usual! Looking forward to your others.
I have also been looking at trying to get alexa to return sensor status with not much luck - might be a good idea for a video!

[jorgealbino-s]

Uprivado LX
Hi, would be possible to use Tuya app to remotely control through internet --> wifi --> local Hub Aqara E1 dongle ---> P1 sensor? thanks

[MrBobWareham]

Is it Matter compliant so will work with the Zigbee 3 hub?

[dretwav]

I have not been able to get it to work with z2mqtt and Conbee 2. It shows as unsupported even after updating Conbee firmware. Suggestions? I also have Sonoff Dongle but if I replace Conbee I would have to re-pair 83 devices which I am reluctant to do.

[cicciopappa]

Hi, my device is not being recognized. I have cc2531 with 20211115 firmware version, did anyone solved this issue?

[JasonRayment]

Super, going to ditch my Sonoff motion sensor keeps going flat in 2-3 weeks

[nappyjim]

I copied and pasted your node red, I was able to set my detection interval to 2s, but now cant change it again. I've changed the inject node to 10, deployed, injected. My debug still shows 2

[paulhyland]

Thanks Simon that really helped changing the timing, i currently use zha with a sonoff 3.0 zigbee stick. The setups been great but is there any advantage to using zigbee mqtt? Just playing with it experimenting with the sensor and not getting the best detection range though I've set it to high checked the logs to confirm its set to high, but only getting up to about 3m before it detects. Do you have any advice ? thanks great vid as always

[simonfeldmann]

Hey Ho!
Thanks for this Video- i ordered this P1 from Amazon and just this 30s Problem

I have got two Problems: i am from Germany and my english is‘ nt so good.
Second Problem: in Germany we say „bloody beginner“ of HomeAssistant.
Can you explain this Procedure with NodeRed. Than i can solve this Problem too.

Thanks a lot and good Job!

Simon from Germany