Meross Battery Powered M605 Matter over Thread human presence sensor

This is now available for preorder.
The price looks ok for a matter over thread presence and illuminance sensor, and it’s discounted on preorder (to £25.99). Delivery supposedly in December. I’m tempted, but then I jumped at the sonoff one only to be disappointed. I’d like to know to what extent it’s configurable from SmartThings and or the Meross app before taking the plunge.

I like how they market it as a 4 in one device, one of the 4 being its battery :grin:.

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Use “NEW15” as the discount code to save 15%

Even on preorder price?

yes. I ordered the two pack using it. $52.70 and free shipping

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Drat. Look what you made me do. Looks like I’ve somehow ordered one. :roll_eyes::grimacing:

Is the presence sensor like a motion sensor but much more accurate?

Details here

Thanks ordered 4 for $90. After the FP300 debacle I hope these work, I have a MS600 which is working OK.

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Apparently no multi sensor support for Smartthings though, which is disappointing

Not something I would miss, perhaps it will be available later.

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A little disappointing but not a deal breaker for me. Maybe it will come later with an updated driver.
Does the Aqara multi zone presence sensor support multi zones within ST, I suspect it does, so it ought not to be a deficiency of the ST UI. Mind you this being matter it ought not to need a bespoke driver.

The FP2, yes

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If I understand the M605 zones correctly, it’s only distance based. So a single axis instead of both axis like the FP2. Cool to see, but not quite zones like FP2. Am I reading that right?

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Yes, but not supported in SmartThings.(yet?)

From meross,

Three-Zone Smart Scene Control: Divide the detection range into three customizable zones in the Meross App. Each zone can independently set presence/absence conditions and appears as separate sensors on third-party platforms for advanced automation. Examples:Study: 5m → main light on; 2.4m → desk lamp on. Bathroom: 6m → night light on; 4m → bathroom light on; 1.6m for 1s → mirror light on. Smart detection, precise presence sensing, flexible installation — all in one!

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My Meross M605 preorder has shipped :slight_smile:

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Mine too, got an email notification this morning….

Get yours yet?
I got my M605 today, and I didn’t find the onboarding process straightforward.
If you try to onboard it without using the Meross app first you get
This

Then when I tried to use the app and then pair with SmartThings I got part way through and was presented with this

After about 30 mins of retrying and mucking about I eventually got it paired but not before rebooting the hub. I had to reboot the hub recently too to get one of my recently acquired IKEA m/t devices onboarded.

Starting to see a pattern here :thinking:

Theres a fair amount of Configuration on the device via the Bluetooth. The auto setup had all the thresholds wrong for me, so was detecting absence when presence was there. I needed to put the thresholds into single digits for continued presence detection.

Currently only using this in test scenario to check its stability.
If anyone else has one set up and content with operations share your settings.

mine is scheduled for delivery today

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Let me know how you get on

Probably no time soon. Mine appears to have been delivered who knows where.

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