Usually Xiaomi motion sensor is detected every two minutes. But with a little work, you can change that time to 5 seconds. A year ago I made my Xiaomi motion sensors to Super motion sensors. Even after a year, Xiaomi motion sensors are working very well. This method is applicable to both Xiaomi or…

How has battery life been with this modification?

[image] Automated_House: How has battery life been with this modification? I modified five Xiaomi motion sensors 369 days ago. Still, all sensors work well without battery replacement.

Thanks a lot for bringing this to my attention. I’m definitely going to try this. The Xiaomi have been super reliable for me so far, and the battery life astounding. If this mod doesn’t destroy battery life then it’ll make them just the perfect replacement for the crappy Samsung ones!

Ok, I’ve attempted this with a great result, but there’s something really odd. So to put you in context: I’ve had a Xiaomi motion sensor (the old model without the light sensor) working great for about a year, and 3 new Xiaomi Aqara that just arrived today. I thought I’d try the hardware mod in the…

Based on what my custom DTH says in the settings, the MOTION RESET setting only determines how frequently MOTION DETECTED is reported in ST, but that the firmware dictates that the hardware can only detect a change (active vs. inactive) 60 seconds after the last activity. That would mean reporting…

That’s not what I’m seeing… I can wave a hand in front of any of the Xiaomis and they detect motion, wait 5 secs for them to report no motion, then wave a hand again and they keep reporting motion again instantly. I don’t see that 60 secs blind period described in the DHT.

I guess I’ll see what happens if I update my bspranger DTH. Mine says v1.1 Edit: It looks like v1.1 is the latest bspranger motion sensor dth.

Oscar, you will find out in a few hours. If you press the reset button on the side of XiaoMi motion sensor, it will report at intervals of 5 seconds for several hours. So if you connect the device for the first time, it is possible without changing the hardware. But in a few hours, Xiaomi Motion wil…

Increasing the reporting interval on a device, in this case by 24 times, potentially does three things: as already mentioned, it can decrease battery life the increase in chattiness might cause other messages on your network to have to be Resent, or even to be lost altogether. Over time, this …

You’re right. This morning indeed the sensors went back to reporting motion only once every 60 secs, except for the one with the hardware mod, which keeps doing so at 5 secs intervals :slight_smile: How estrange is this behavior though… I can’t think of why these sensors would have been programed to…

Making Xiaomi Motion Sensor a Super Motion Sensor

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ShinJjang (ShinJjang) October 19, 2018, 7:27am 3

I modified five Xiaomi motion sensors 369 days ago. Still, all sensors work well without battery replacement.

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