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+++ Read more
I've been incredibly excited for this to come out. I was able to purchase an FP1 model from Alibaba a few months back, which was never sold in the US, and it had promise but the motion detection capabilities were very lacking. I had to pair it with an Aqara motion sensor to get the best results. So when they talked about this version I was excited to see the updates made. Overall I really like this product but be warned, it's not perfect and definitely needs to be tweaked, hopefully future software updates will fix some of the things I ran into when setting it up. You really need to set up your zones in the Aqara app before you start messing with it in Homekit. I was able to purchase 2 of these, one for my kitchen/living room and the other in my master bathroom to replace the FP1 and Aqara motion sensor. For the kitchen one I've set up 4 total zones to control my Homekit devices, the main one being in the kitchen where I have 2 NanoLeaf lightstrips under my cabinets. When you walk into the kitchen the lights will turn on and when you walk out they'll turn off. Took a bit of time to get the zones worked out correctly but after messing with it I was able to get a good result. It's not perfect as it sometimes doesn't register that you've entered the kitchen or left but I'd say since tweaking everything in the beginning it works 90-95% of the time as I'd expect. In the master bathroom I set up 4 zones with 2 primarily being used to control devices. The bathroom area turns on the main lights from my Meross dimmer switch and the shower area turns on the shower light and shower fan with both regular Meross switches. Initial placement didn't work out very well as the bathroom mirror seems to mess with the sensor so I moved it to be over the mirror to get it out of the sensor's view and that seems to have fixed a lot of the initial issues I was having. The glass shower door seems to mess with it a little bit but overall like the kitchen one it's working 90-95% of the time as I would hope. I think after some more software updates this will be even better over time. The motion sensing actually works really well when it's functioning properly. It's incredibly fast, even faster than the regular Aqara motion sensors. The design of the FP2 is better than the FP1 as it's flatter and you can remove the cord from the sensor itself which uses USB C. The mount is very smart in my opinion as it is magnetic. So you get an adhesive sticker that you put the included metal disk on and your sensor sticks to the magnet which makes it so much more convenient to take off if needed. All in all I'm happy with the purchase but I will say it's a bit overpriced. I was hoping for this to cost around $50 so when I saw $82.99 I was in shock, thankfully at launch they did have a 15% coupon that helped a bit but I'd say if you can wait I'd wait for the price to drop a bit. Read more
Tldr: not that you have a choice since this is backordered, but don't buy this yet. Update 2: after the new firmware update I was excited to see what would happen. It's garbage. Plain and simple. They made the tracking distance 1 meter, which means when someone is walking next to you they steal the tracking. This thing is useless if you live with anyone....including plants, pets, people, TV's, fans, shiny countertops, tile, windows, or doors that open and close. All cause horrible interference, and you cannot simply mark out those places on the map. Aqara is already removing promised features from their website. Don't buy from companies that push products before they are even close to ready...it's embarrassing. Update as this might save someone days of their life: it might work in the future but currently if you tilt this device at all the results aren't good. My best results are 6 feet off the ground and completely horizontal. If you have one of these play with the placement as much as you can before you automate around it. Some places worked initially but degraded over a few days. Increased one star now that I have found a good placement. Will update more as errors get resolved with ota. I've played with the fp2 for 4 days now almost continuously. It's not ready, not even close. The app is horrible. It is slow and locks up all of the time. It's not only not updating my location in the app, sometimes if it is detecting me at all I just fall off of the radar standing 6 feet in front of it. I check in home assistant and I'm not in the zone I'm standing in. Clear view of sight, 6 feet away. This isn't ok. Setting up the devices was also a nightmare. I'm on an Samsung phone (s23) so maybe that had something to do with it but it took over 3 hours to set up both devices (the first time). Constant errors, even though everything was correct. The solution was the just keep trying...tried about 20 times in a row. Also, Bluetooth isnt showing up as a binding option 99% of the time, which is a shame because it works instantly when it comes up. Which brings me to another point...if you remove this device from home assistant, it never resends the homekit info. You have to remove the device from aqara and the readd it. Again...another headache getting everything reconnected. I bought these for the zone detection, which works great when it works and is abysmal other times. I could have achieved my goals quite well with cheaper sensors but the posture detection was an added benefit that I was looking forward to. If aqara launched it like this I don't have much hope. And that brings me to the most frustrating part of this...it was working flawlessly 2 days ago and not skipping a beat. And over the course of two days it started putting me in the wrong locations and only detecting me randomly. At the time of writing this it isn't detecting anything at all and there are 3 of us and a large dog in the room. No the sensor hasn't moved. Hasn't drifted or anything like that. Nothing has changed. There are so many other things that I've found that should have never made it past production. Most of this is bad programming. No clue if the hardware is to blame. Read more
