Presence Sensor FP2, mmWave Radar Wired Smart Sensor, Zone Positioning, Multi-Person & Fall Detection, High Precision with More Privacy, Supports HomeKit, Alexa, Google Home and Home Assistant

one word Awesome. Completely changes everything. Meets and exceeds my expectations. Aqara have produced one hell of a sensor. The Lux sensor alone, is the fastest I’ve ever used. And that alone would be enough reason for me to buy more. I have two of the original FP1 sensors, which I’m currently using and both have been faultless. Once setup properly. But have been slow to detect presence. So still need a additional sensor to speed up motion detection and detect Lux levels. Absolutely not the case with the FP2’s presence sensing and its ability to zone a room. The down sides. The WiFi 2.4ghz only. Which makes it tricky to initially setup if your mesh router can’t split the networks. So if your a sole android user. This could cause a problem. As a IOS user and HomeKit user I had no such problem. But the Aqare iOS app when used with this sensor is extremely slow to display the current position of presence. Which gives the end user the belief that it’s not working as expected. But when you switch over to the android app. Positioning updates of presence update in real time. So obviously a bug with the IOS app. Home assistant. HomeKit integration works perfectly. I was aware that the sensor doesn’t currently work with GH and can’t be exposed to GH via home assistant. But that’s easy to get around with a few helpers and exposing the helpers to GH if needed. I will absolutely be buying more when available

The sales is telling you it provides zone detection, fall detection, etc. Yes, it does. Not at the same time tho. If it's ceiling mounted, there's no zone detection but you do get fall detection. In wall mount setting, there's no fall detection but you do get zone detection. Ghosting is a problem. Interference is a problem. Detection angle is a problem. It's better than a motion detector, it's faster in response than most wireless motion detectors, reliability is questionable. I have set up 3 of these. 1 in the living room, 1 in the kitchen and 1 in the home office. All of them monitor both presence and light and connected with Homekit. If I enter a region and it's dark enough, the corresponding lights come on, if I enter a different region, old lights should turn off. Usually this works nice but sometimes a "ghost" is left in the previous area causing the lights to stay on or even turn on when nobody is there. My partner is 5'11" and around 55kg, this presence sensor sometimes doesn't recognise her causing the lights to turn off. So it's not accurate. App is okay, got used to it as I'm using Aqara for a longer period now. The detection zone's mimum size is 50cm*50cm (1.6feet*1.6feet). Overall, if you're happy tweeking a bit with Apple Home (write simple scripts), it can be a powerful ally. Way better than Hue/Eve motion sensors. To give you an example: If you don't want the sensor to turn things off and if you use light bulbs which can be app controled and dimmed (Hue, IKEA Tradfri, whatever), you may want to check if it's on or even better what's the percentage setting on it before turning it off by leaving the zone. This can be achieved by basic scripting. Allow some delay before turning everything on and check the value again before turning it off to ensure less detection errors occur. This may also give a nice extra to your lighting setup.

I have repalced all my mmWave presence sensors around the house where people stay for any period of time without moving (lounge/bedrooms). I used to rely on PIR motion sensors for turning on lights however as anyone who has used standard motion sensors will tell you, when motion stops, the sensor changes state to false and if automations are not setup correctly lights will turn off. Previous to these sensors I had Everything Presence One sensors in the main rooms. I was forever tweaking settings and even then the sensors didnt work as expected. With these Aqara sensors I havent had anywhere near as many issues. I have paired all of the FP2 sensors with Home Assistant rather than Apple Home - this way I get full capability and can automate until my heart is content (I have pushed these devices from HA into Apple Home though so I have th ebest of both worlds). These are fairly easy to setup however the setup is the key to the reliability with these - in the app you must set room entrance/exit points and room boundaries. Don't leave the app to make up the room boundaries as it doesn't really work. Invest the time setting these up and you will be rewarded with a sensor that just works

compete waste of money, complicated to setup, doesn't work most of the time. I get lots of ghost detections or no detection even though I'm in the zone. response time is bad. When power got on and off, it wouldn't connect to WiFi again, nightmare to setup again. app is not user friendly either. being a wired product also turned out to be too annoying as it limits the spots you can put it

I was a little wary about this sensor given the large number of not-so-great reviews. However, I thought I would take the plunge based on the few positive reviews that I have read, for me this seems to have paid off. My use case: I need to determine when people are in my living room so that I can turn on / off the lights/TV/etc accordingly (using Home assistant). I already tried a Shelly Motion 2 and this worked well for people entering the room, but after plunging the wife into darkness while sitting still (and trying to complete an online purchase) I had to disable the "auto OFF" part of my automation. So hence now trying a presence sensor instead of a motion sensor. Getting setup was a bit of a fiddle, I needed to install the Aqara app, then add it to Apple home (apparently not needed if you are an android user), I then setup the sensor using the Aqara app. This seemed OK but then I started to see the dreaded ghosting that I read about in other reviews. I stuck with it and glad I did, but make sure you follow the setup guidance AND perform the following: 1) Update the firmware, this is not obvious (e.g. you wont be prompted), will need to dig around the settings, when done you will notice an update that "addresses ghosting issue". 2) Run the AI calibration (when no one is in the room), this removes any remaining ghosts and, in my case, makes the sensor usable. When done, I ensured the apple home integration was installed in HA (home assistant) I then needed to remove the sensor from apple home (on iPhone), this then allowed it to be discovered by HA. Setup then was simple. I have to say it works a treat and I have gone one step further with my automation, I now have the lights go on and off as a person walks though the living room, then I setup another zone on the Aqara FP2 sensor so that I know when people are sitting down (on the couches), so this allows me to turn on and off the TV/Fire/Fan/Etc accordingly. Note this was achieved with node red and a 1 min cooldown/delay for the lights and then a 15 min cooldown/delay for TV etc (annoying if nipping out to the loo and then having to turn the telly and channel back on). Wife finds it acceptable, moved the old shelly motion to the loo (she loves that) and got permission to get another Aqara FP2 for the kitchen. Happy days 😊

Very sadly, this experiment was not a success and I've had to return it. Contrary to the many youtubers and the sorts claiming all it's good deeds, the device has simply too much ghosting for it to be useful, and to pay a prime for an unreliable device it's just not worth it. My goal was to set it in my office room to detect my presence so I can switch some lights on/off. As sometimes I'm not moving I was hoping this sensor, contrary to other sensors, would be able to realize I'm still there, just a bit quiet. It does seem to be able to do that, and knows I'm there even if I don't move, problem is that I never seem to disappear from the room, sometimes it does realize I got out of the room, but far too many it gets glitched and considers I'm still there even if I left half an hour ago. Worse, when I come back it thinks someone else got in and now there's two people in a room where there's only me, ie. ghosting happens. It got so bad at a point there were 4 mes in the room and I think I could have taken it to the max 5 eventually. I even tried to reset it, I tried to use the "door icon" to tell it where the door is in hopes it will understand I'm exiting the room. Nothing. I could understand a bit of tweaking around but hours went by with the ghosts still there, I don't understand how it can consider there's a non-moving invisible person at a point for 5-6 hours in a row and still not realize that's a ghost. In all honesty, I understand new tech has it's downsides and I could be ok with it if it was cheaper, but for the price I expect perfection and I got a Beta version of a device which is far too faulty. I'm not into being a Deluxe Beta tester, better wait for this technology to actually work. In the meantime, Samsung's Aeotec partner makes very decent motion sensors that while they can't determine where you are in the room or if you are sitting down/standing, they are 3 times cheaper and if placed strategically (like under a desk pointing towards the chair) you can do wonders with them (so basically, I prefer to get 3 PIRs for the price of this one, those will do). That all said, I was able to check that the Aqara FP2 sensor was capable to approximately follow me across the room, but it didn't seem to be able to know if I was standing/sitting down/laying or anything, it always said I was standing only. I also updated the device's firmware and had it on the wall 2m+ above the floor (in case anyone was doubting). So I feel like many of it's supposed features weren't working and this tech needs lots more of tweaking before being sold as "prime". I am willing to pay for these a prime once they actually work, and I was looking forward to buy a few of them for different areas of the house (I loved the idea of it triggering when I go to bed or wake up in the morning), so I am very disappointed indeed and may need some time before I can trust Aqara again, meanwhile, I won't trust certain youtubers anymore.

Nice product BUT deducted a few stars reasons below. 1. Way to complicated to setup for the average Apple Homekit product. 2. With Firmware 1.1.9_0001.0034 people in room often ghosted twice showing multiple detections outside of the room. Note this doesn't seem to effect my automations on presence. 3. My installation is on the wall 1.5 Ft from ceiling but while viewing in the Aqara app I get warning the installation mode does not keep in line with the monitoring mode. Currently set as side installation with Zone detection real time monitoring of people. I can only think the sensor thinks it on the ceiling and flat which it is clearly is not. On a plus note working in Home Assistant via the Homekit controller integration. (see online for details)

This is a game changing sensor. It’s brilliant when it works but it requires setting up and tuning. First off, the Lux sensor updates quick and is very good. Best one I’ve got. It is really useful for monitoring light levels. Second, the sensor has so much potential but it requires you to accurately set out the zones. One thing that will catch people out is not using ‘entrance/exit zones for doors. The sensor can still think you are in the room and gives unreliable readings if you don’t. Next is the is the sensitivity setting. There is one for each zone. There is also one in the settings. If you have the settings too high, you get ghosting. Then there is interference zones for things that move such as fans, curtains etc. This prevents false positives. The sensor works really well with HomeKit. I wish it they were cheaper to buy.