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this post was submitted on 19 May 2024
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I already have motion sensors everywhere but I also have cats. They make it seem like there's people wandering around the house all the time.
I've placed a lot of them on top of door frames that seem to miss the cats, but in the front room there's sofas for them to climb up on which means they still get picked up.
I have also since this post purchased MMwave sensors. But they're worse for picking up the cats.
So what I'm trying to do is add more sensors so HA has a better picture of who is in the house, and when.
To give you an idea, yesterday I took my wife to a Dr appointment, my kids are at their grandparents, but when I was sat on the car waiting for Wifey I noticed my kitchen lights were on in the app.
The Drs turned into the hospital and I was out for a good 4 hours, but got home and added "Is anyone home?" to my lights automations.
The cats don't need lights
You can fine tune some and the Aqara FP2 seems to do a good job ignoring pets.
Yeah I've kinda found the sweet spot now to be fair, but I'm using an esp32 board and some dude's yaml, so I've been groping in the dark a bit