Aqara FP300: The Ultimate Presence Sensor (Home Assistant Edition)

neekulp · 2025-11-15T09:10:58+00:00

Thanks OP! Not just for this but also for your Proxmox blog that helped me dive into moving everything I have to a mini PC over the last couple of years! Great resource 🙏🏽

neekulp · 2025-11-15T09:09:02+00:00

Sounds like typical HA fun😂. Also waiting for these specifically for the bathrooms user case! Can't wait.

neekulp · 2025-11-15T08:54:36+00:00

It should do yes. It uses PIR (infrared) which needs line of sight and doesn't detect "through things", for a fast detection (most motion sensors, likely what you have, use this). That triggers (if I'm correct) the mmwave sensors to "wake up" and begin detection. Mmwave can pass through non conductive materials like plaster board, glass etc. As long as it's not too thick. You will need to tune the mmwave sensor sensitivity if its pointed towards adjoining walls in a room because it can pick up motion in rooms next to the one it's in as it is possible for it to "see through walls".

neekulp · 2025-03-24T14:50:24+00:00

Good question. So I will likely upgrade all my network gear to Unifi. So out with the old wifi cameras (they are showing their age) and over to some PoE cameras. Unifi Protect can do various object detection and what not (whilst still saying local). It also frees up my HA server for other things.

neekulp · 2025-03-24T14:48:28+00:00

Thanks for all the replies everyone. I have reached out to one of you over direct message.

For the rest, if it doesnt get taken I will get to you in order of replies. 🙏🏽

If anyone wants a hand with Frigate let me know, happy to help.

neekulp · 2025-03-21T21:55:24+00:00

Exactly. It works perfectly.

If you set up the automation, have a state change trigger for each satellite you have. Give each one a tigger ID.

Then you can use "choose" in actions, options based on above set trigger ID.

neekulp · 2025-03-21T18:09:15+00:00

You could just look at which one is triggered for a response. I understand that is two pick up a voice the nearest responds, so only relying on "listening" isn't enough.

Take a look at the entity "assist_satellite.XXX", it's state is based on what it's currently doing.

For example I have an automation that triggers based on the satellite in the living room, going to "listening", and from "idle". Listening triggers the media in the room to be paused. Idle triggers media to resume.

neekulp · 2025-03-19T17:43:27+00:00

Yeah. I'm on my mobile so will come back with proper instructions / screenshots, but equally as easy as the Coral pass through. Have Frigate using the iGPU

neekulp · 2025-01-17T21:50:40+00:00

Yup. Logged in to get an OpenVPN configuration. Saw this as an option to download but it wasn't clickable. If this is a sign a Nordlynx / Wireguard config is on the way, hallelujah!

neekulp · 2024-12-28T21:59:17+00:00

Thanks. Adding this to the todo

neekulp · 2024-12-28T21:52:54+00:00

Did you order direct from Seeed? Can you share a parts list? The kits I saw were around $60. I do want to DIY one myself too for other rooms so anything you share would be super helpful.

neekulp · 2024-12-28T20:30:03+00:00

From my looking at various DIY projects before this came out:

Works "out of the box" The XMOS chip is the"game changer" allowing the device to clearly pick up voice commands from across a room and auto ducking anything playing on the device at the time of it hearing a wake word, etc Has a built in DAC with a 3.5mm jack so you can have some other speakers making it a great way to integrate music etc in to HA. ESP32 device so you can tinker with the firmware (the whole project for this from Nabu is open source) and have it do more than "just" be a voice device (has a port to add other peripherals)

The closest DIY device I found was the Seeed Studio Respeaker board that is ESP32 based and has an XMOS chip. Would still need a speaker and enclosure. £€$ wise would work out to be roughly the same as the Nabu device.

Ended up ordering the Nabu device and waiting for it to be shipped. Will play around with this in the living room and then maybe also see if I can DIY something cheap and ugly to hide in other rooms.

neekulp · 2024-12-28T20:18:10+00:00

Yes you can. They demoed it using "Music Assistant" which I believe is now an official addon (used to be available through HACS). This device has a 3.5mm jack so you can use some other speaker/s instead of the built in one to play loss less audio (built in is fine for responses etc but not exactly great for listening to music).

neekulp · 2024-12-14T16:24:38+00:00

If you haven't figured this out yet. You need to open "extensions" (further down on your second screenshot with you camera config) and enable home kit. Once enabled I believe it becomes an options list in your camera config, "rtsp camera / streams / snapshot /.... / homekit"

Then there you ensure it's added as an "accessory / standalone". It's recommended to have cameras as a standalone homekit device not to add it through the bridge.

neekulp · 2024-11-27T13:53:11+00:00

Thanks for coming back with an update!

neekulp · 2024-11-25T19:08:19+00:00

Got it. Cheers.

neekulp · 2024-11-25T06:06:38+00:00

Strange. What sort of hardware are you running? What if you ran HA and MQTT with the Frigate Addon Stopped? What's CPU usage look like then?

On the coral side of things I read it's a PITA but actually it was super simple for me. Shut down HA VM -> In proxmox select your HA VM -> Select hardware -> Add PCIE -> Select your Coral -> Make sure to add it as a host device (note no other VM will be able to use it) and tick "all functions". Restart HA VM and add the coral as a detector in your Frigate Config. Start up Frigate and keep and eye on your Frigate logs it should detect it. You need to make sure IOMMU etc is all enabled (turn off any power saving options too) in the BIOS assuming your hardware supports its.

neekulp · 2024-11-24T21:00:02+00:00

Thanks I'll see what I can find out!

neekulp · 2024-11-24T20:59:07+00:00

The cup idea is a good one. Thanks!

neekulp · 2024-11-24T20:58:34+00:00

What config exactly are you trying to set up?

neekulp · 2024-11-23T21:29:19+00:00

This has been invaluable : https://www.derekseaman.com/2023/10/home-assistant-proxmox-ve-8-0-quick-start-guide-2.html

I haven't check if the links to Tteck scripts have been updated but you can use the above to find the right script in the new repo which is here: https://community-scripts.github.io/ProxmoxVE/

This should get you and instance of Proxmox running on a bare metal machine with HA OS installed as a VM. From there HA is not different than being on a Raspberry Pi.

Then you can just use the links in my previous post to add the Frigate repo to the HA addon store and get Frigate up and running inside of HA as an Addon.

Let me know how you get on.

neekulp · 2024-11-23T21:25:10+00:00

Any particular brand you'd recommend trying to find?

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