Now the FP300 has been out for a good while, I wonder what people’s experience has been with small cats?
Have you found a way of reliably avoiding cats triggering? I’m guessing there’s not yet a way of restricting detection to objects over a certain size?
If not, have you found a fairly reliable workaround?
For pe personally this is when using it with Home Assistant, but I’d be interested to hear any experience in this area.
I don’t have an FP300, but I have an FP2 (mmWave), as well as P1 and P2 (PIR) motion sensors. I have positioned these higher up and at a right angle so that my cat is not detected. The only problem occurs when she jumps onto the kitchen table at night, so I have set up an automation to prevent the light from switching on when the night alarm is activated.
You might also find this interesting:
When my FP300 are working, they will always detect my small dog (Cocker Spaniel) but this may be the PIR side of the sensor, I’ve not tried just the mm wave and the dog. I do still have ongoing reliability issues with my FP300 though.
Thanks. Yeah the high right angle sounds like it is a bit of a workaround (I already have FP2 sensors elsewhere in the house). However, in the living room for example a large part of what it’d be used for is if people are sat on the sofa, where the cats will also go, so I was hoping for there to be a way to filter out smaller detected objects.
Considering how these work I’m surprised that’s not yet an option.
Haha thanks for the link to that other thread, but that was my thread, I was the OP there too.
In that I was mainly trying to see if people who had FP2s had found a good workaround for cats, but with this one, I was hoping that people who have now had time with the FP300 had found an improvement in this area.
Haha, yes, I hadn’t noticed that at all.
You can try AI Person Detection, but it may result in poorer recognition of people. This is likely to be particularly problematic with seated people.
Perhaps the new sensor offers more possibilities in this regard:
So I have my fp300 mounted near the ceiling pointing down towards the sofas. It consistently picks us up when we sit on it but will not pick up the cats when they are on the sofa.
The fp300 is about 5m away from the sofas so on the closer side to it’s edge of it’s detection range.
Iv done some experiments with with an fp300 in my garage and when my body is 3/4 covered by my car it typically will not pick me up again at a range of 5m or so at an off angle of about 30 or 40 degrees.
Hello, So I don’t have the FP300, but I do have the FP2. When I started creating automation my cats was an issue, but instead of using the FP2 as the trigger I used more devices and sensors that only human would control. Example would be apple TV Turns on or is paused then depending if someone is sitting on the couch from PF2 ( The “check”) it would dim or turn of lights for when I’m sitting on the couch or if just had the TV on to listen to the news while walking around.
Ooh, I hadn’t seen there was a new one announced.
None of this is urgent or important for me, just nice-to-have.
May hold tight and see what’s in the pipeline.
Thanks
I need to get 5 of these FP 300’s but they aren’t available anywhere. Are they being replaced with something new? I read about the FP 400, but I need the wireless ones for the bedrooms for a cleaner install.
