I have fitted all my windows with Aqara vibration sensors, but almost every day I’m getting vibration alerts despite nothing no one is opening the window or trying to break in from the outside. I have set all of them to lowest setting but they keep giving me alerts.
Anyone with same issues and is there a work around as currently I have disabled all of them.
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I don’t know which ones you have, I have a couple of the original version and I stopped using them. They always gave me false positives. I don’t know if with the newest, that problem is solved. I never knew what I could do to solve the incident.
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I have the newest version but apparently that didn’t solve the problem 
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The Aqara Door and Window sensor is just a better solution for the reasons you point out. You have to also consider the condition of your windows ie: age, style, type, condition etc. I’ve had severe thunderstorms set off my vibration sensors in the past. (not often but it has occurred).
The vibration sensor works best in many other areas and situations.
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It’s brand new 3 layer sound and low energy windows, so the window itself is high weight so would not really move as such. The purpose of the vibration sensors is to have a warning if someone is trying to break into my house where the door window sensor will first enable an alarm if they are opened, but might have to move to that solution instead as the vibration sensors doesn’t look like they are stable enough as the right side of the window will give an alarm but the left does not lol.
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I would prefer to use a vibration sensor on some windows also but they just can’t be adjusted to work in the way I would like. I do love the vibration/tilt sensor though.
I am using the latest Aqara vibration sensors on new windows and I am not having any problems. I experimented for weeks trying to find the right sensitivity. Ended up with the default settings which is medium. I see daily log entries of “Vibration Strength event fired”. But those aren’t actual triggers. That appears to be from things picked up such as indirect movement or vibration. So if you are using them in an alarm system they won’t trigger as an alarm event. Now if you bump the window or frame hard enough it will trigger an actual vibration trigger event and that will trigger an automation or alarm event. The event log will show “detected vibration” followed about a minute later by “cleared (no vibration detected)”. I have mine integrated into home assistant. Seems to be working well. Hope this helps.
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Thx for the message, unfortunately mine trigger the alarm system and all set on low so nothing left to do 
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You can try adding one or two layers of 3M tape between the Aqara vibration sensor and the window. This can sometimes help reduce vibrations.
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Think I have some thick nano tape, might try that 
I have the same problem. Initially I had it on the phone at the entrance to let me know if they rang, but they were all false alarms. Then I put it in a door of the storage room and it also gives some false alarm.
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Do you have it on the glass part itself of the window, or the frame?
I would expect the glass part to resonate with sound, which would easily trigger.
Also, when I was configuring mine, I was really not sure whether… “Low” means “not too sensitive” which would require a large vibration or…. Sensitive to “Low” vibrations
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I put them on the frame because I had the same thought. and I have tried a very thing from low to high with same result on the faulty alerts
Low sensitivity requires more intense vibration to trigger. High sensitivity detects even minor vibrations. I would set sensitivity to be low.
I agree with others that door sensors would be the preferable tool here. However since you already have the vibration sensors (T1), I would set sensitivity to low and if you have access to a more advanced automation system (Home Assistant or Apple Shortcuts) create a rule to only alert only based on x number of repeat occurrences within a specific timeframe.
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Already at low for all of them, but the last part is definitely worth a try. Will fool around with that later in the week
I turned off the vibration on the sensor. Lots of detections without a cause. Unusable as an alarm. I tried all the sensitivities and it’s the same.
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Well loved your suggestion at the get go but in home/away mode you can’t add anything but the device and what feature should trigger the event so that won’t do it, but perhaps if you make a very long automation you could make a work around but for sure that’s not how the system should work 
and having looked at it you can’t really tell the system that if it happens 2 times e.g working 2 min. Then it should sound the alarm so the suggestion don’t work in the app unfortunately. If you have a way it works please share. 
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Yes, my suggestion was not for the Aqara app itself, but if you had access to Home Assistant. I think you’ll be limited here for now in the native Aqara alarm functions unfortunately.
By the way, what is the vibration that is triggering? Is it motion inside the house or something like wind blowing on the window?
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Problem is no one knows… because they go off at random times when no one is in the house when there is no wind (and people sleeping) so nothing makes sense unfortunately. Have suggested Aqara in the beta testing group that they look into adding the option within the app to mitigate the false vibration detections.
Same here, ever since I installed them a year ago. I completely deactivated them and am going to trash them. Total waste of money!!
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