damn Europe already sold out :(

Nice! I was wondering, based on the hint in a recent video of yours, whether we would finally have a reliably working mmwave presence detection sensors.😃 When we were building the smart research (lab pre-COVID times), we had assessed various sensors and technologies (BT - not accurate at all to be used in medical setting) and ended up going with a vendor using mmwave based presence sensors (almost 20 of them for the entire lab). After getting frustrated with the (lack of) accuracy offered by BT presence detection sensors, the mmwave sensors were amazing. Furthermore, the product we implemented included additional sensors that Cohorts participating in the study would wear on a lanyard to enable the scientists in uniquely identifying each subject. That is one feature that I currently see missing from this Aqara sensor - I would be curious if you might know (or reach out to your Aqara contacts) whether they might be able to offer this kind of functionality via a hardware sensor or some software integration (e.g. user's registererd phone) to accurately identify a person detected by the sensor? I mean @5:30 into the video, would you really want Aly to listen to your playlist if, for some perfectly valid reason, she sat down in your chair? 😇😊 Also, any idea if multiple such Aqara sensors could talk to each other (I know, niche use case scenario but could be useful). And yeah - the price premium for a commercially available sensor offering features not many (if any) other competing sensors currently offer is a bit high (IMHO) where only users who really know how good this technology compared to other competing technologies might consider. And even then, someone like me might think hard and twice about exactly how many of these I might want and which specific use case scenario in a home - whereas regular presence sensors are much easier to decide due to them being so inexpensive. Plus, FP1 can still be ordered via AliExpress for almost half the price and get (almost?) all the features? Great video as always. 👍

@@toni7234 Be careful. Some sellers sell the chinese version as european and you will be limited in function if you don't link to chinese servers and app.

Thanks for your review Reed, just ordered mine!

EIGHT-THREE DOLLARS?!?! Nope. Too rich for my budget.

Hey Jesse! Yes I agree that it's a better replacement for pressure sensors. Factoring all the costs that this one sensor can replace makes it more reasonable.

Maybe 2 in one room could achieve this. One showing the middle zone with some overlap on the second one showing the outside zones. But yet it would be good if the app allowed overlapping zones!

You could make your lights fade off more slowly to compensate.

Good point! People do always think that and this will solve it.

For motion detectors I wrap them with thin black plastic, like something cut from a garbage sack. (The plastic sheet does not have to be black, just so it's polyethylene.) I cover the red led with black tape.

Not to mention the little black dot on the hue motion sensor. Looks like a webcam lol.

@@bob456fk6 This seems even more sus 😂

You dont have to explain my home my rules. Just lean into it its a camera, it takes pictures so be careful.

They don’t work bought two

I was equally as excited, but unfortunately for me the two I bought both registered frequent ghosts - and weekly I had to reset presence… I had to send them both back. Which was a pitty

Yes the fast on/off is for demo purposes to show how responsive it is. I would normally fade the lights and have a longer delay to turn the lights off.

There should be a light bulb shaped one that fits in a standard socket

That's sweet! I bet that was fun to get early access to it.

Any way you can share with me how to join the beta program? I'm an electrical engineer so I'm tinkering all the time. Would be cool to try the new devices they have

@@omar10wahab you'd have to submit a request to join via the survey I'll get you the link 🙂

@@SmartHomeSolver it was great! Seeing the development and having insider information and hearing about updates, very exciting news . Aqara also has a new sensor coming soon which I don't want to spoil anything. But be on the lookout for that ;)

​@@frankraym dude tell us it could prevent us from buying something useless lol

Update on that. Thanks to @TrueFormStudios I was able to get it working in HA. You have to remove it from the Apple Home app before you can add it to HA. Once I removed it, I could add it using the HomeKit Controller integration and it's working great!

@@SmartHomeSolver even zones are working on HA?

Yes, you set up the zones in the Aqara app and they show up in HA. Then you don't need the Aqara app anymore unless you want to change the zones.

​@@SmartHomeSolver Hopefully at some point zones can be done natively through Home Assistant.

The sensor doesn't look through walls.

@@ParodieHecker-mobile Are you sure? The other mmwave sensors I've looked at easily see through many kinds of walls.

@@Dorff_Meister I'm not sure where you're from but I'm from Germany and the walls in my house are so thick that no mmwave sensor that I used could do such a thing. Your name sounds german though.

@@ParodieHecker-mobile Yeah, my surname is definitely Germanic. I think you'll find mmwave sensors, in general, have little difficulty seeing through most walls, although it will have it's limits. Between my condo and my neighbors is little more than drywall, lumber, and insulation and I feel confident without proper placement and configuration it would trigger on my neighbor's motions. Or even within my house the motion from an adjacent room could easily bleed through.

Oh I haven’t tried removing it from HomeKit first. I’ll definitely try that. I got it to show up in the HomeKit Controller integration but it didn’t work. Thanks for the tip!

so you have to add to homekit? what if you don't use homekit but use ha? thanks

@@joeld9663 I only tested my method using HomeKit. As far as I know you can't add it to HomeAssistant any other way right now.

@ TrueFormStudios your solution worked for me! Thank you so much for the help and I've updated the pinned comment giving you credit.

Hi, so if I don't have an apple device, I can't add it to Home Assistant? (as far as I know homekit is only for iOS)

Thanks!

If he's uses Lutron Caseta (which I think he is) this is a standard on/off feature.

The lights service in home assistant has a transition parameter to specify how long it takes to transition between two light states.

Same, but don’t be disappointed, the FP2 isn’t what it’s cracked up to be and I’ve send mine back as they have their problems and got my EP1s out which still work flawlessly

The price sure is a shock to the system, but the number er of sensors it could replace would offset that. Though it's too late for people who have already invested heavily in PIR and contact sensors.

Yes all of that was just one sensor. It doesn’t work with SmartThings right now but it will for sure when Matter support rolls out.

Another person just commented and said to use the HomeKit Controller integration but don’t add it to the Apple Home app first. I haven’t tried it yet but I will later today.

@@SmartHomeSolver please do let us know how it goes. Cheers

And can now confirm it's now sold out in AMZ UK.

Got it working using the HomeKit Controller integration. The user TrueFormStudios said that the FP2 has to be removed from the Apple Home app before being added to HA. I removed it and it worked!

@@SmartHomeSolver thanks. Then it doesn't have to be added back, correct? As I am not an apple user. Sorry for the novice question as I have never used or configure homekit controller.

I'll see what I can do!