Aqara 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

I've been using the Aqara Presence Sensor FP2 for a few weeks now and honestly it's on a different level compared to the old PIR motion sensors I used to use. Those basic sensors always leave me sitting in the dark if I don't move enough while reading or watching telly but this thing uses mmWave technology which means it can see me even if I'm just breathing. It's properly clever how it tracks multiple people at once and you can set up different zones in a single room. The setup was a bit fiddly in the app at first because you have to map out your room and define where the furniture is located. I did struggle a bit with some 'ghost' detections where it thought someone was in the room when it was empty but moving the sensor away from a rotating fan fixed that. It's much more sensitive than a standard motion detector so you have to be careful with placement. One of the best bits is that it works as a light sensor too so I can automate my curtains and lights based on how bright it is in the lounge. Since it's mains powered with a USB cable you don't have to worry about batteries dying every few months which is a massive plus for me though it does mean you have a wire trailing down the wall if you don't hide it well. When you compare this to a traditional PIR (Passive Infrared) sensor the pros are obvious as you get way more detail and no 'timeout' when you're still. However the cons are that it's much more expensive and requires a constant power source whereas a PIR can live on a coin battery for a year and is tiny. If you just need a light to pop on in a cupboard stick with a PIR but for a smart living room this FP2 is the way to go. There is also a fall detection feature which is great for peace of mind if you have elderly relatives living with you although I haven't had to rely on that yet thank goodness. It integrates perfectly with my HomeKit setup and the lag is almost non-existent. Overall I'm really chuffed with it despite the slightly steep price tag.

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.

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

I'm am extremely disappointed with these sensors after watching so many youtube videos and having so many plans to integrate them in my smart home with homeassistant. Ghosting (had 3 extra people in the room at times) and false positives make this device absolutely useless unless your routines are such where falso positives aren't an issue...for me it meant that when on the sofa the lights should be off but while watching movies at some point it lost track of me and thanks to all the ghosts in the room away from the sofa it turned on the light which during horror movies really kills the vibe. Even when I went to sleep I'd wake up to my security cameras alerting that my livingroom lights went on for a second at 4am (all devices are off and there are blackout blinds so that 1 second of false positives also messes up the reliability of my cameras)... this is supposed to be able to track multiple people at once so I thought I could make conditional routines based on the number of people in an area but turns out it can only detect if an area is occupied so the only workaround is the split each square on the map into a separate zone...that's annoying as it tracks multiple people so I'd like this information exposed in the app and homeassistant. Another annoying thing is the devices' field of view...to get the whole room (left and right walls) you need to install it in the corner...not only do they not include a corner mount they also don't let you rotate the in app map so my square rooms have to be represented diagonally which also applies to all the furniture so I can't even get the boundaries for the sofa perfectly. Overall I feel like this is a beta product and that it shouldn't be sold given all the false positives. I'm sure some people can make it work depending on what kind of routines they want to use it for but still it's overpriced for what it does and the ads as well as influencers really exaggerate it's features. I've sent mines back. Fyi I have various motion sensors and also use the aquara roller shades so I do like the company but just not this device.

Impressive presence sensor. The mmWave radar is far more reliable than basic PIR sensors — detects even sitting still. Zone positioning and multi-person detection work well. Great for smart home automations that need to know if a room is actually occupied.

If you anything like me you watch YouTube and get caught up in what they tell you. This product looks exciting but there are plenty of 'issues'. Unlike some I got it registered quickly and, after a brief amount of annoyance, worked out how to map my room. Will say, that could be made far easier to use and the stickers option is limited. Initially it went up and worked well in the room we wanted it in, the kitchen, I even set two zones, but then it started mucking about a bit, so I moved it around a bit. PRO TIP, I've had mine about two weeks and it's still stuck up with blue tack, be 100% sure it's were you want it before committing ! Anyway, the biggest issue we faced is we have a poxy hood hanging from our ceiling with interrupts vision around the kitchen in some places. We lowered it so it had vision then it started doing other odd things. It's obviously not the fault of Aqara we have big block in the kitchen, didn't cross our minds, but still though there was ample space for it to see someone. After a lot of moving about we do have it in a good place where it does work as expected bar one blind spot in front of the fridge, but a slight movement qets it on. The biggest annoyance was, but not so much now, was the ghosting, that is pretty bad at times, how it 'sees' people when they clearly aren't there is mad given it works on presence and has just left a person on the grid as they left the area as though it can't see it left. We have a medium sized dog also that sometimes sets it off, but mostly doesn't. Also, even if the light gets 'stuck on' for a while the app seems to clear that ghost after about a minute. It will drive you mad for sure but as stated I do now have it working as expected 95% of the time in a room with an obstruction. 100% not worth £89 for all the stress it causes but hopefully firmware etc will continue to improve use.

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.

Pretty much does the job, I use this for opening my blinds in the morning and it works perfectly for that. But I also use it for powering on a wall panel, it's great to set certain zones in the room and have them appear in the smart home device menu as a separate device and build automations around it but I've found the positioning isn't always the same, usually accurate to a foot or two but as I have small rooms this foot can mean it decides someone sitting on the arm chair is standing Infront of the wall panel... And on occasion you can be standing at the panel but just outside of the zone. You can clearly see inaccuracies just on the app as guests sitting on armchairs/sofas arent actually in that place. I've changed position of the sensor multiple times (in recommended positions) and not really been able to improve this accuracy. All in all, useful device that tends to do it's job but fine accuracy could do with some tweaking. Hopefully firmware will iron this out in time.

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.

Ik ga deze melder gebruiken om enkele ruimtes die met elkaar verbonden zijn in één keer goed te in kaart te brengen (met een Aqara hub) en zo de verlichting slim te kunnen schakelen. Ben benieuwd of dit goed gaat lukken maar na het zien van wat Youtube videos zal ik probleemloos moeten gaan. Mocht het toch niet helemaal gaan zoals ik wil dan is het een optie om eventueel nog een te bestellen en die toe te voegen.

Grazie a questo sensore ho potuto ottimizzare alcune scene che prima - utilizzando i sensori di movimento - avevano delle limitazioni in caso di presenza statica. Premessa per chi non conosce la differenza tra "sensore di movimento" e "sensore di presenza". Lo spiego con un esempio; la scena "accendi le luci quando entro in cucina e la luminosità è inferiore a 20lux" è possibile con un sensore di movimento abbinato ad uno di luminosità (nel mio caso, prima di acquistare questo, usavo uno combinato, ma spesso servono due sensori distinti)... e fino a qui questo prodotto non da un grande valore aggiunto, se non per il fatto che - dal momento che è costantemente alimentato - l'aggiornamento dei sensori è più frequente e quindi ho la garanzia di leggere un valore di luminosità in tempo reale e non uno aggiornato magari a 20 minuti prima (visto che la quasi totalità dei sensori di movimento è alimentato a batteria e - per preservarla - si opta per un aggiornamento non in tempo reale ma ad intervalli regolari di diversi minuti). I problemi si verificano con le scene di spegnimento: "Spegni le luci quando esco dalla cucina", con un sensore di movimento da risultati parziali. Infatti se resto fermo mentre mangio ed il sensore non rileva alcun movimento, mi ritrovo a mangiare al buio. Si può migliorare la situazione aggiungendo un timer, ovvero "Spegni le luci 2 minuti dopo l'ultimo movimento rilevato in cucina"... supponendo quindi che anche mentre si mangia, si genera un movimento almeno ogni 2 (o il valore scelto) minuti... ma in tal caso, quando esco definitivamente, devo aspettare due (o più) minuti prima che le luci si spengano. Con un sensore di presenza, invece, so esattamente quando qualcuno è presente in cucina... e quindi l'automazione diventa precisa, immediata ed a prova di errori: quando la prima persona entra in cucina si accendono le luci, quando l'ultima esce si spengono. Questo ovviamente solo per fare un esempio... le possibilità poi sono molteplici. Veniamo al prodotto in questione: Installazione e configurazione: è la parte più delicata... e che richiede il suo tempo. Se non vi interessa il monitoraggio delle cadute (per la quale è richiesta l'installazione a soffitto), la posizione migliore è al centro della parete stretta, ad un altezza compresa tra 140 e 180cm. La scelta della parete più stretta è dettata dall'angolo di circa 120 gradi (in realtà ho verificato esser anche qualcosa di più), quindi al centro della parete lunga rischiereste di aver gli angoli ciechi. L'installazione ad angolo è possibile ma è più complesso disegnare la mappa (speriamo in un aggiornamento sw) Nella mappa vanno segnati i confini delle stanze, le zone di entrata ed uscita e soprattutto quelle di interferenza. Le zone di interferenza sono molto importanti e vanno impostate in tutti quei punti dove potrebbero generarsi "fantasmi", ovvero: - oggetti in movimento (piante con foglie mosse dal vento, tende, ...) - riflessi (specchi, TV, finestre, ...) - variazioni repentine di luce e movimenti esterni (finestre, lampadari) Attenzione che nel momento in cui completate la configurazione delle stanze, lo spostamento anche di pochi mm potrebbe inficiare tutto il lavoro ed obbligarvi a riprendere da capo. Utilizzo con Home Assistant: personalmente ho usato l'app originale solo per la configurazione, HomeKit non lo uso ma uso solo Home Assistant. Home assistant, però, non prevedendo al momento un'integrazione specifica, lo vede come dispositivo home kit, quindi prima dovete configurare HK (Home Kit), poi verrà automaticamente riconosciuto in HA (Home Assistant). Verranno esposti: - un sensore di luminosità - un sensore di presenza generale - un sensore di presenza specifico per ogni stanza Qualora doveste modificare il nome o il numero delle stanze, dovete cancellare il dispositivo da HA, da HK e riconfigurarlo, prima da HK e poi da HA. Considerazioni: è più di un mese che lo uso e sono molto soddisfatto. Purtroppo non è economico, ma vi permette: - un'economia di altri sensori, con conseguente semplificazione nella gestione e manutenzione (batterie) - maggior precisione nella definizione degli scenari che prevedono l'effettiva presenza e non semplicemente il solo movimento. Ne comprerò altri non appena ci saranno delle offerte 😀 Spero che la recensione vi sia stata utile: in tal caso, un like è molto gradito.

This product is absolutely amazing. I love having the ability to set multiple zones and each having different routines/automations. It is very easy to use and not having to worry about batteries is a major plus. If it's this good now, I can't wait to see the company's future products. Well worth the price! Update, still works very well. Once in awhile it has detection issues where one person won't be detected. I would like to see a microwave sensor that would really add functionality. With this one sensor I was able to remove 4 motion sensors. I can't wait to see the next version of this amazing sensor. No batteries required+++

Unfassbar gut. Ich bin schon seit mehreren Jahren im smart Home Bereich unterwegs und dieses Gerät hat alles verändert. Es ist unfassbar präzise und, was ich selber nie gedacht hätte, unglaublich zuverlässig. Es erkennt sogar auch, wenn ich am Schreibtisch sitze, obwohl es von hinten ist und der Schreibtisch ca. 5m entfernt ist. Bemerkenswert ist, dass das Gerät absolut fehlerfrei läuft. Es erkennt nie Geister und erkennt nie die Abwesenheit wo nach Anwesenheit ist. Einziger Kritikpunkt sind manchmal Spiegelungen. Ich habe im Bad auch einen Sensor für das Licht und dieser ist auch auf die Scheibe der Dusche gerichtet und er erkennt mich daher manchmal doppelt aufgrund der Spiegelungen. Aber auch dies kann man alles in der App optimieren. Insgesamt total überrascht, wie präzise und zuverlässig es klappt. Das hätte ich NIE gedacht