Should I be use this new Aqara FP300 motion sensor that supports Thread & Zigbee with my EISY and ZMatter USB device? I have not done much with Zwave/Zigbee/Thread and I’m trying to bench out from INSTEON a bit. Thoughts?

I have several Zigbee devices and they work fine with my Eisy. I received my FP300 today but I won’t be able test it until Tuesday or Wednesday at the earliest.

JP

Edited Sunday at 04:43 AM2 days by JP
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I tried adding the FP300 to my EISY through the Zigbee/Add a Zigbee Device menu command. It found a device but said something about waiting for an interview process to complete. The window went away and now I have a device in my Admin console called ZB 46576.1 Main but it does not respond to motion. If I press the Query button, I get a Request Failed popup.

I'm clearly out of my league here. I guess I need to read more on Thread/Matter/Zigbee. Any pointers would be apppreciated.

I've been following threads on the FP300 in HA and Hubitat fora. I have one on order.

In both those threads, they talk about using the Aqara app on your phone to convert from Thread (default as shipped) to Zigbee before adding. Did you do that?

-Tom

@xlurkr No I hadn't done that but have done so now. The FP300 updated its firmware and then got to a point where in the Aqara app it wanted to connect to a hub. I don't have one so I went to the EISY Admin Console and added the device again through the Zigbee/Add a Zigbee Device menu. It completed and I have these 3 devices shown in my Network. No idea why the first one shows disabled. 2nd and 3rd devices (Main and Weather) show the temperature and humidity in my office where the device is currently sitting. I see nothing that shows me how it show presence detection (motion detection?). I'm closer but not all the way there yet. Do I need an Aqara hub in my network? I wanted to use this as a motion sensor because of its compact size. Thoughts?

From what I have gleaned from the other fora, you do not need an Aqara hub. Also, in the other fora, there is a mention of a need for some modification to the existing drivers on the respective hubs (HA and Hubitat). The authors of these drivers are participating in the threads and making the changes.

Therefore, I would expect that the default behavior in IoX will not be ideal at the moment. If we all contribute to this thread as we experiment with our FP300s, and maybe additionally make requests in the general Zigbee support threads here, the team at UDI will likely support this device as well as it can be at some point in the near future, as they have demonstrated numerous times in the past.

-Tom

btw, here are links to the two threads (I hope these are correct!)

[BETA] Aqara Multi-Sensor FP300 (PS-S04D) - ⚙️ Custom Apps and Drivers / Custom Drivers - Hubitat

Aqara FP300 Early Zigbee Setup : r/homeassistant

-Tom

@xlurkr thanks!