Motion detectors not reporting motion to the panel in Home Assistant

[mralapete]

Virtual keypad functions set/unset working fine. Open/close sensors reporting to the panel and recorded in Home Assistant but the motion sensors not reporting any motion in Home Assistant. Is this the way you set up the concord232 server to interact with Home Assistant. The motion sensors are set up using the binary_sensor and were exposed to Home Assistant in that way. Is there anything I can change so Home Assistant can detect motion via the motion sensors.

[AZDane]

Did you ever figure out what the problem was? Trying to determine if I should go with this solution or just get rid of the Concord 4 completely.

[rwa]

Fwiw my motion sensors worked out of the box.

[AZDane]

Ok thanks! Just seems like there was a lot of people with unsolved problems. Nice to hear it’s working for some. Guess I will give it a try.

[AZDane]

Virtual keypad functions set/unset working fine. Open/close sensors reporting to the panel and recorded in Home Assistant but the motion sensors not reporting any motion in Home Assistant. Is this the way you set up the concord232 server to interact with Home Assistant. The motion sensors are set up using the binary_sensor and were exposed to Home Assistant in that way. Is there anything I can change so Home Assistant can detect motion via the motion sensors.

mralapete,

Have you tested if your motion sensors work when an alarm is triggered?

My motion sensors are also wireless and they just send one short open signal when activated and then they don’t register anything for 4 minutes. This is by design to save battery. So when the system is not armed, HA will not register this unless the sensor status is pulled exactly when the open signal is present.

When the system is armed and the motion sensor is triggered, the Alarm Panel will retain the open status of the motion sensor and it shows up as open i HA until the system is disarmed.

[mralapete]

That's the problem. It is polling based and doesn't expose anywhere near all of the underlying capabilities of the system. I'm looking around at alternatives. Pity the author didn't reply to my original post. The motion sensors work but a polling system doesn't really suit my needs here.

Check this out. It's an impressive piece of work https://github.com/darconeous/concordd