I got a couple of cheap wifi PIR sensors from Ali express like these, which work reliably through Local Tuya, but they’re too slow to respond (and I’d refer being able to use them through Tuya Local but cant get them added).
I’ve got one controlling lights above my stairs, and I often get 2/3 of the way up the stairs before the lights are triggered. It’s only 3-5 seconds, but makes quite a difference.
I’ve done some reading and it seems that using zigbee PIR sensors might be the best change I could make to improve the delay?
Zigbee seems like a huge can of worms though, and I really can’t figure out the best way to go about it.
I’ve got home assistant running in hyper-v, so just passing through a USB dongle isn’t an option.
I think there might be two ways to get it talking to zigbee devices?
- Add a PCI-E USB card to the hyper-v host, and pass through the whole USB controller to the HA VM using DDA/SR-IOV like here
Trouble is, I’ve read that not all USB cards/controllers support doing this (the hosts USB controllers on its motherboard don’t seem to) and almost no listings for cards mention if they do or not, and I’m not sure what card/controller HAOS would be happy with.
I’ve found one post that mentions a specific card, but it looks hard to get outside the US and I’m in the UK. - A network-based zigbee controller… maybe something like these
There are wifi and cabled versions, but staying away from wifi seems sensible.
I can find very little info on how to connected these with HA though… what I’d have to add to HA and how to configure it. Everything seems to be geared towards the USB zigbee controllers.
So…
Can my existing wifi PIR sensors be added to Tuya Local somehow? (I’m pretty sure that wouldn’t change the delay though)
Is using zigbee PIR sensors the way to remove the delay?
If it is, USB card and USB adapter, or networked hub?
Am I just miles off understanding?
I’d really appreciate and guidance/experience anyone could offer
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