A game changer in room presence detection is almost here...

[philbert]

Thanks for mentioning it Wade. For me at least thats news.
Curious if anyone has done this


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[Bigstevep]

This may be common knowledge but I just became aware you can now define regions (zones) on the FP1 like the FP2. And it appears zigbee2mqtt supports it as well. I haven't dug into it any further than what's mentioned here:

https://smarthomescene.com/blog/aqar...#zones-support

Anyone tried it yet?

If I get some time tomorrow I'm definitely going to look into it. That will definitely make it a game changer. To bad though, my Chinese language skills were getting better! HaHa

[pistacheL0]

I have tried it via home assistant. Will reply tomorow

It has issues when people are sleeping completely under a blanket, the person disappear and the sensors can set itself in « no presence » mode. Also the same thing can happens if someone goes out of the room and there is still another one left.

[Michael McSharry]

Bigstevep
When the FP1 first became available I got a pair for evaluation. Overall I was not impressed vs. units that have been used for years using the same microwave technology being used for warehouse lighting and similar applications. I understand that the product evolves, but zone isolation seems to be a problematic problem based upon my experience using microwave technology. I was happy to use aluminum foil as a wave guide to limit the detection window, but tweaking range was hit and miss. Without solid range dominance I find it hard to believe zone detection will be very reliable. With the microprocessor in the FP1/2 there will be able to be better heuristics enforced, but it is still dependent on the RF signal which is fickle in our universe.

The BLE supported in mcsMQTT is for beacons. It does not attempt to integrate other specific devices. The ESP32 Bluetooth Gateway is a good choice for this purpose. It provides a capability similar to zigbee2mqtt to convert BLE to MQTT. mcsMQTT does support the various ESP32 gateways with the caveat that subscription should be only for associated topics because ESP gateway is very chatty.

If there is a defined protocol used for FP2 WiFi then I would be happy to include it in mcsMQTT.

[pistacheL0]

The protocol used for now is homekit

https://www.home-assistant.io/integr...it_controller/

[Michael McSharry]

What does homekit mean to a HS user? What is the "homekit" protocol defined at the level where it is visible to HS?

[pistacheL0]

Not sure to understand the question.

But it is any device labeled as working with homekit ( apple ios). With the Home assistant integration there is not need to have an ios device (exept for initial wifi setup for some devices). State are pushed and device can be controlled.

I think it uses mdns for to detect the device on wifi, and it is ip based, but I can’t answer more than that. But for sure, It locally managed, no cloud needed.

From the link, it seems to be an abstract layer on top of bluetooth, thread, and wifi.

Maybe a homekit integration into homeseer with only wifi would make sense.


edit: Devices that use the homekit protocol does have an homekit local api. The api can be partial or total versus the one they use for cloud (if any) communication.

[pistacheL0]

I think it is based on this library : https://github.com/Jc2k/aiohomekit

[Roobrother]

I could only bring it in via ifttt and virtual
is there a better way

[pistacheL0]

You might want to try this plugin. Incomplety forgot it exist because i’m am on linux and it is not displayed for linux system(but i tested it once and it worked with other stuff )
Homekit Controller Lite

[ksum]

There is also a homekit Node-Red contrib available which might allow you to connect with HomeSeer. If the plugin doesn't get you what you need, that is.

OpenMQTTGateway has a BLE Gateway you can set up. I would imagine they would help get that working if they have not already.

[pistacheL0]

Fp2 is using a wifi api on homekit

[jkooea]

As for the technical details, it appears that HomeKit uses mDNS to detect devices on Wi-Fi and is IP-based. It is managed locally, which means that it is not heavily dependent on cloud services. When I want a break from everything, I go look for Enzo casino promo codes at https://casinosanalyzer.com/casino-b...enzocasino.com because I urgently need to forget myself and try to raise my budget at the same time. Based on the link provided, it seems that HomeKit serves as an abstraction layer that works with various communication protocols such as Bluetooth, Thread and Wi-Fi. Perhaps integrating HomeKit into HomeSeer using only Wi-Fi might be a reasonable idea.

[pistacheL0]

As for the technical details, it appears that HomeKit uses mDNS for device detection on Wi-Fi, and it operates on an IP-based system. It's locally managed, meaning it doesn't heavily rely on cloud services.

Based on the provided link, it seems that HomeKit serves as an abstraction layer that works with various communication protocols such as Bluetooth, Thread, and Wi-Fi. Perhaps integrating HomeKit into HomeSeer with a Wi-Fi-only approach could be a sensible idea.

Check the hs4 HomekitControlerLite plugin . I have 2 fp2 they works great with the plugin!

[wpiman]

Check the hs4 HomekitControlerLite plugin . I have 2 fp2 they works great with the plugin!

That gets the FP2 into Homekit. How do you get it into Homeseer from there.