Aqara Presence Sensor FP2, 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi Required, mmWave Radar Wired Motion Sensor, Zone Positioning, Multi-Person & Fall Detection, Supports HomeKit, Alexa, Google Home and Home Assistant

Enhanced Home Automation
Since setting up my Aqara FP2 presence sensor, the enhanced presence detection has expanded my automation possibilities.The initial setup is a challenge. The Aqara App is not the most intuitive and requires a bit of learning and acclimatizing. It also takes detailed forethought for the initial mounting and positioning of the sensor.The benefit is improved automation. Now that I’ve completed the user configuration, the FP2 indicates presence or nonpresence in each zone and in the overall area. Automations that I could not accomplish using standard motion detectors are now possible. One example is lights that are needed to stay on no longer automatically turn off because of sitting or standing still. The ability to detect with surety when I am home, away, or have gone to bed allows me to reimagine my key automations, making them even better.Besides improved automation, more advantageous features of the FP2 sensor include:- Presence detection does not require a video camera- Although presence detection requires WiFi, it does not require cloud connectivity- The ability to reconfigure zones without moving or adding additional sensors

Useless junk
Got this to use for presence detection in my bedroom. Unfortunately it has far too many problems to be useful.Minimal annoyance, this comes with a short USB cord but does not come with a power supply so you’ll have to buy that separately. That’s probably the nicest thing I can say about the product though.First, the setup is quite annoying as it requires an app with an account to set up the sensor, even if you only want to use it local with Homekit connectivity. There are also many confusing, contradictory, and vague labels and descriptions in the app that I’m guessing are related to badly translated words or unknown differences between parts of the world and no good descriptions such as which sensitivity is for what size room in quantifiable units. It is also very vague and confusing how you set up the detection zones/squares and then attempting to use the guided/automatic setup generates errors saying something can’t overlap but doesn’t really explain what is overlapping or wrong to guess how to fix it.Worth noting, Homekit integration (at least with Home Assistant) only shows a true/false indication of presence in a zone, not the count of how many people are in a zone like the Aqara app reports. So don’t plan to use this to do something like tell if you have 1 vs multiple people in an area.Assuming you get it set up, it doesn’t seem to work well. I tried having it in the middle of a wall as suggested, as well as in different corners of the room. All of these had massive mis-detections with numerous false-positive and false-negative results.I tried running the “AI learning” mode, however it didn’t seem to help much. If I ran “learning” with my ceiling fan off, it would work decently until I turned the fan on or the blades were moved. If I ran “AI learning” with the ceiling fan on it would work slightly better on false-positives but frequently failed to detect people actually in the room.I’d also tried the “ignore pets” mode (which warns it will miss children) but it didn’t actually seem to do anything for reducing false-positives from either of our dogs. Even more confusingly it seemed like it more-frequently would “lose track of” our bigger dog (around 50lb) and more frequently thought our smaller dog (around 40lb) was a person.The other very annoying thing I found was it seemed to have false-detection on stuff that can move around – for example the pillows on my bed being piled differently seemed to be detected as another person and/or it would get confused if I was laying on my side holding a pillow then got out of bed without putting the pillow back up at the headboard would think I was still in the bed after I left the room, or would think 2+ people were suddenly in the room. A similar thing happened when I did laundry and put the laundry bag on a chair until I got to folding the clothes it thought there was a person randomly in the chair. And again with a suitcase that I put down after a weekend trip when I didn’t have time to unload and store it immediately.I also briefly tried this in our livingroom but it had many issues there too. It frequently “lost track of” where I was if I sat on the sofa behind a table in the middle of our room for a couple minutes but then getting up would think I was a 2nd person. Do that a couple times and it thinks there are 4 people sitting on the sofa when I’m the only one in the room and would not “clear” the ghost-people until I forced a re-learning or power-cycled the unit (and then that wouldn’t fix the problem, just cleared it until I sat down again).It seems this product is aimed at only people who have a perfectly clean room with nothing in the middle and nothing that ever gets set down or moved, and does not have any ceiling fans. I guess maybe an office building or schoolroom might work acceptably but it sure is not suitable for a residence where you have personal belongings that can be picked up or set down on different furniture or might not put everything away instantly upon returning home. It also seems unsuitable if you have pets.I can’t recommend this unit, especially given its quite expensive and requires constant power. I’m going to stick with inexpensive PIR sensors.

Lo utilicé junto al sensor de puerta y ventana, también de Aqara, para automatizar el encendido de luces al abrir la puerta del baño. Esto hace con que no tenga que utilizar interruptores en este espacio, ya que al entrar se enciende la luz y al no detectar más presencia en el ambiente se apagan.Se puede hacer fácilmente esta automatización utilizando focos de Aqara, sin embargo utilizo los de Philips y tuve que hacer la integración por medio de Home Assistant, aunque se puede hacer también con HomeKit, Alex o Google Assistant.La configuración es bastante sencilla. Inicialmente tardaba un poco en detectar falta de presencia, pero después de un tiempo ya empezó a trabajar correctamente.Es muy importante mencionar que la función de IA disponible en la aplicación no funciona muy bien y tiende a presentar muchos problemas con “fantasmas”, por lo que no se recomienda activar inicialmente y acompañar el desarrollo de esta función por los canales de Aqara.

Je suis très satisfait de l’Aqara FP2, notamment grâce à son excellente intégration avec Home Assistant via HomeKit. La configuration est simple et les zones de détection définies dans l’application Aqara fonctionnent de manière fluide pour détecter l’occupation. Le capteur est très précis, et il s’intègre parfaitement dans des projets domotiques avancés.Cependant, il y a quelques points à améliorer. Par exemple, il n’est pas possible de récupérer le nombre exact de personnes occupant une zone, ce qui pourrait être une fonctionnalité utile pour optimiser les automatisations basées sur la présence multiple.En outre, il est important de noter que ce capteur nécessite une alimentation continue, ce qui peut parfois rendre son intégration plus complexe si l’on souhaite éviter les câbles apparents. C’est un point à prendre en considération lors de l’installation, notamment dans les espaces où l’esthétique est importante.Aussi, les différents modes de détection (détection classique, détection de chute, et analyse sommeil) ne sont pas combinables et fonctionnent séparément. Bien que chaque mode soit efficace dans son propre contexte, pouvoir les utiliser simultanément serait un réel avantage.Malgré ces quelques limitations, c’est un excellent produit pour ceux qui recherchent une solution avancée de détection de présence et d’occupation. Je recommande vivement cet appareil pour sa fiabilité et son efficacité, surtout pour les utilisateurs avancés en domotique.