How to know if your child is colliding in your room without a camera

A few weeks ago I left my eldest son alone at home for several days. He’s 19, not the first time he’s been alone, but yes. was the first time he stayed for several days while the rest of the family were in Valencia spending the holidays. You can imagine that those days my house was full of people every day and every hour, with «Open Door at Night» ads that were repeated all night. Anyway.

I was obviously already imagining, all I said is that I couldn’t get into my doing. I mean, in the master bedroom. If he stayed to sleep, a colleague or sim.

Nothing happened, but no way into my room.

The first thing that It occurred to me to put a camera, but the bedroom is a delicate area to put a camera… Imagine that at some point in the future my wife gets mad at me and sells the intimate videos for revenge! I would have the inbox full of women asking me to show my skills with them! A mess.

Once with the camera discarded, I thought of an opening sensor and door lock But I didn’t care, the door in my bedroom is usually open and the vacuum robot goes in and out when it has to. I thought of a vibr sensor.

of those of Aqara in bedBut that would only tell me in the case of someone lying in my bed… but what if they just came in to wear my dresses? So finally I decided to put on a Movement Sensor.

And that’s exactly what I wanted to talk about today, theAqara motion and light sensor, the P2 model that is Matter and the automations I have made to find out if anyone was in my room.

The sensor: Aqara Motion and Light Sensor P2

Aqara’s motion sensors are well known to all. I’ve been using them.

trong > using them from time immemorialSince they went to Zigbee and had the famous Aqara bridge that so many joys and so many dislikes have given us. The new P2 (plus having a funny name) is that it is a Thread sensor compatible with Matter, so you don’t need the Aqara bridge and you can connect it to Home Assistant and HomeKit without one making bridge of another, which is just what I’m most interested in in in my house, you know I spend my life with each other.

So you have a Border Router Thread at home (as can be an Ap

The 4K TV, a HomePod, the modern Echo, the Eero or Home Assistant with the right pinch), you tie it directly and to run.

The P2’s cool because It is not only a motion detector, it also carries light sensor (lighting), goes with a CR2450 button stack, and you can tune the settings quite a bit. I told you about him a long time ago and I recommended him to you on his day in chapter I.the best Matter devices to expand your home network you also have on the blog, where I already told you that for 30 and a peak euros you have the sensor at home. I’ll leave you the link.

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Being Matter, it allows what the standard callsmulti-admin, that is the same device is discharged on several platforms at once. What you have to do is, from the platform where you already have it (in my case the Home app that is from the first match or the Aqara app itself), go to the device settings and order a new matching code to share it with another ecosystem. With that code you go to Home Assistant, Settings > Devices > Add Matter device, the p

And in a few seconds you have it in both places working. without having to do anything else.

This, which seems silly, is just the opposite of what I did before, which was to integrate the cams into Home Assistant and from there publish them in HomeKit doing tuning of the configuration file HomeKit bridge (It will sound to you if you read or heard it in the chapter of the Tedee lock compatible with Matter). But with the Matter sensors you save all this and if one of the pla falls at some point

The other one still works smoothly.

The automations I’ve mounted

Well, after this. Just hide a little bit in the room. I’m not gonna tell you where I put it in case my son listens to the podcast at some point. But it’s not too much in sight. And I tell you what automations I’ve done in case any of you give you similar ideas. Note that a motion sensor He doesn’t know who’s coming in, So you have to give context and put conditions Which is what this automation thing is about in the end.

1. Guardian absent (automatic, without touching anything)

The first

It’s called «absent guardian» And what he does is that If my phone and my wife’s are not home and the vacuum cleaner has not been launched but the sensor detects movement in the room, I get a warning to the iPhone of the «move in your room and you’re not home.» This is automatic and I don’t have to activate anything: if we’re out and the room should be empty, any movement is suspicious… but consider the vacuum robot.

2. Surveillance mode (on demand, when I’m home)

The second is the surveillance mode. When I’m home but not in the room (because I’m working, in the living room, or

Whatever. «Room surveillance» switch. When activated, the system Ignore movement for 20 seconds (the margin to give me time to leave the room without me jumping) and from there, If anyone comes in, I get a discreet warning. with a button to disarm it from the notification itself. It also has antispam not to bomb me, and a self-disarmament at 2 p.m. in case I forget to take it off, I know myself and I’m able to come in and match.

The discreet warning thing is prop?

? I’d rather catch them without them knowing. before mounting the number to blink the lights and sound a siren from AUA AUA!!! Although that option I have also prepared in case I ever want the total dramatic way, in the style of the environment Don’t know of which I spoke to you in the chapter of My children don’t know when they ring. I’ll put all the links in the podcast notes.

3. Low battery warning

As the P2 carries button stack and these sensors die at once and without warning,

I put on a notification when the battery is reduced by 15%. If you’re from pure HomeKit, you know that the Home app is a disaster for this and only let you know when the device has five minutes to live; it’s your thing to pull the Controller for HomeKit or Home Assistant, just as I told you in the entry on low battery notification. Nothing new under the sun, but it’s one of those things that you’re grateful to have on the day that I let you know that he has little more, even though I tell you that it lasts for God.

4. And the guinda: control it with Siri

The i

nterruptor «Surveillance room» lives in Home Assistant, but I posted it on HomeKit through the bridge., so now it appears in the House app as one more switch and I can say «Hey Siri, turn on surveillance room». That is: that the sensor enters by Matter to both sites, and the automation switch leaves Home Assistant and returns to HomeKit. Controller for HomeKit also allows virtual switches and complex flows that grind a lot, but I’ll tell you this another day in depth.

What could be done

With a sensor that also measures light, they come to my head

which are on the same line as automation that I usually ride And I’ll try:

• Night courtesy light: taking advantage of the lighting sensor, that when there is night movement and the room is dark (below X lux) the light of the 5% lamp is turned off and it is turned off only after a couple of minutes without movement. It may be interesting when I get up to run that I go to the palps or I light up on my cell phone so I don’t wake up my wife, but you have to adjust it well so that you don’t get turned on in the middle of the night or how much

You want to have a marathon session of those sex girls we all have with our partners, of course.

Notification also on TV: as my LG TV has a Home Assistant-compatible notification service, I could get the notice out on the corner of the screen, as I do with the doorbell.

Arm the surveillance mode alone:: instead of remembering to activate it, it will automatically be done when the room has been empty and is within a specific time frame.

Spreading by presence: cross the sensor with who is at home to decide who to warn and when, which is just what it was going to be

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Conclusion

So that, that for little money I have set up a notification system for when someone enters my room with the Aqara P2 sensor with Matter And, beyond the mess itself, what has upset me is remember how well HomeKit and Home Assistant take when Matter does or has to do the same sensor on both sites, with multi-admin, without losing properties, and with the possibility of mixing the best of each p

The Apple House app is a little meh and these I have mounted on Home Assistant, but I could have also mounted on Controller for HomeKit.

As a spoiler, I’ll tell you that I’ve been getting chorropotohundred notifications these days… the bastards plugged a TV play in my room and played in bed. Or so I’ve been told. Anyway.

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