{"id":2733,"date":"2022-05-29T10:00:14","date_gmt":"2022-05-29T15:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/promincproductions.com\/blog\/?p=2733"},"modified":"2026-03-07T14:14:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T20:14:00","slug":"aqara-motion-sensor-in-home-assistant-without-a-hub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/promincproductions.com\/blog\/aqara-motion-sensor-in-home-assistant-without-a-hub\/","title":{"rendered":"Aqara Motion Sensor in Home Assistant without a Hub"},"content":{"rendered":"

Motion sensors are great smart home devices for security and automation workflows. This tutorial will walk through how to add an Aqara Motion Sensor to Home Assistant without an Aqara hub! Using the motion sensor without the Aqara hub simplifies the network, the devices requiring support, and reduces cost to setup a simple device.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Aqara Motion Sensor<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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The sensor used in this tutorial is the Aqara Motion Sensor<\/a> <\/strong>[model MSS02<\/a>].<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aqara products are available via Amazon in the United States and Amazon often has sale prices and coupons on the Aqara line of products – so keep an eye out for that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NewEgg also sells Aqara products in the United States with free shipping and at the time of writing is nearly the same price as Amazon even with discounts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For those living outside of the United States, Aqara lists the retailers they sell through<\/a> on their site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aqara Motion Sensors on Amazon<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Aqara Motion Sensor Models<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

This post was initially written for integrating Aqara Motion Sensor RTCGQ11LM<\/a> using deCONZ v2.14.1 using a Conbee II as the Zigbee coordinator. This model has since been discontinued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The latest model Aqara Motion Sensor P1 (MSS02) is a very similar device but is slightly larger. It didn’t want to connect to deCONZ due to not being supported by the version I had installed. deCONZ added support for Aqara Motion Sensor P1 in v2.16.1 (Akihi)<\/a>. After updating (to v2.32.5<\/a>) connecting the Aqara P1 to deCONZ paired in seconds as expected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How to Integrate an Aqara Motion Sensor to Home Assistant without a Hub<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

There are three primary Home Assistant Integrations for Zigbee. More detail on those three methods can be found in the Adding Zigbee to Home Assistant<\/a> post. Two of those methods have been tested for adding an Aqara Motion Sensor without a hub to Home Assistant: ZHA and deCONZ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Using deCONZ and the ConBee II Zigbee coordinator<\/a> the Aqara Motion Sensor successfully<\/strong> connects and functions as expected in Home Assistant. The connection was quick as expected and is very stable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Aqara Motion Sensor never<\/em> connected to ZHA (Zigbee Home Automation) with a HUSBZB-1 Zigbee coordinator<\/a>. It is not recommended to use this Zigbee gateway for the Aqara Motion Sensor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Entities Exposed in Home Assistant for Aqara Motion Sensor<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Using the deCONZ integration with a ConBee II for an Aqara Motion Sensor, this is the list of entities exposed in Home Assistant:<\/p>\n\n\n\n