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I lately purchased an Aqara vibration sensor with the plan of affixing it to our eating room desk for the aim of establishing a movement in Homey such that if it’s nighttime and the desk is bumped or tapped anyplace, the sunshine would flip ON and keep on for 10 minutes.

It didn’t actually work the way in which that I hoped it might…

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The vibration sensor isn’t as delicate as I hoped it is perhaps. In consequence, to set off the movement/automation that I arrange, somebody must faucet on the vibration sensor itself. To this point we haven’t been capable of set off it by tapping anyplace else on the desk.

I believe I’ll finally take away that vibration sensor from the eating room desk and use it for one thing else as an alternative. However for now, it’s nonetheless on the desk and it type of works, though it’s not likely any extra useful than simply utilizing a lightweight swap on the wall.

One other factor that didn’t actually work the way in which that I hoped it would was that after vibration is detected, the sunshine comes on for 10 minutes and my thought was that if extra vibration was detected thereafter, the movement would constantly re-trigger and the sunshine would keep on. Sadly, that additionally doesn’t appear to be the way in which issues work.

So I’d say the vibration sensor not being as delicate as I would love it to be is a matter with the Aqara system, however the movement not frequently re-triggering earlier than it ends is a matter with the Homey ecosystem.

What truly finally ends up taking place is that the movement is triggered, the sunshine comes on after which after 10 minutes, the sunshine goes off.

If you need the sunshine again on, it is advisable to go and faucet the vibration sensor once more.

That’s not what I had in thoughts.

I like Homey, however I believe there must be some solution to frequently re-trigger issues to keep away from a state of affairs like this the place the sunshine turns off after which it is advisable to re-trigger the entire thing once more to get the sunshine on for one more 10 minutes.

The Aqara vibration sensor additionally looks as if a great product, it’s simply clearly not appropriate for this specific thought. Nevertheless, I believe it might be nice for one thing slightly extra “excessive contact”, so I’m certain I’ll put it to work some place else in our dwelling finally.

What’s up with Alexa?!

Alexa had an “fascinating” day lately. Often, Alexa is cooperative and responsive 90-95% of the time, however the different day, voice management didn’t work in any respect. Within the Alexa app, my Sonos Arc soundbar was exhibiting intermittently as “offline” regardless of having a “robust connection” within the Sonos app.

I used to be digging round on-line for proof of widespread issues with Alexa, however didn’t discover something.

The Sonos soundbar could be on-line, then offline and even when it was on-line, the entire thing was actually bizarre.

Anyway, maybe Alexa simply wished a time off work as a result of the following day every thing was again to regular identical to we by no means skipped a beat.

I actually don’t know what to make of all that, however I hope it doesn’t make a behavior of taking place too usually!

I’m not getting a P2 movement sensor in spite of everything

The shop that I ordered three extra Aqara T1 mild bulbs and a P2 movement sensor messaged me and instructed me that they couldn’t truly get me a P2, however requested if I’d be happy with a P1 as an alternative.

After some temporary analysis, I made a decision that the P1 seems completely high-quality for my use case. From what I may see, the battery life is definitely longer on the P1 in comparison with the P2, which is nice. The opposite vital distinction seems like Matter help for the P2, however I don’t significantly care as a result of I’ll be connecting the P1 to Homey with Zigbee.

The opposite factor that I seen is that within the Homey app, I can see the Aqara P1 listed as supported particularly, however I can’t see a selected point out of the P2.

All that to say, I’m getting the P1, not the P2.

I thought of a presence sensor however determined that it was overkill for this specific use case. My plan is to make use of the movement sensor and three Aqara mild bulbs within the outdoors elevator foyer space. I don’t actually foresee any situation the place an individual goes to be stationary in that space for greater than a minute, so a movement sensor will do exactly high-quality.

Till subsequent time, have a great one.

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