The cheapest way to get radar presence detection into Apple Home, Alexa or Google.
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Millimetre wave presence detection at roughly a third of the FP2 price, connecting over Matter so it joins Apple Home, Alexa or Google with no vendor hub and no extra app. If the reason you are reading this page is that your motion-triggered lights keep switching off on people sitting still, this is the least expensive fix available. Like every radar presence sensor it detects a stationary person through breathing and micro-movement, so a room stays occupied while someone reads, works or watches television. It also reads ambient light in most variants, which lets an automation require both presence and darkness before switching anything on. Set expectations against the Aqara units. This gives a single presence answer for the space rather than the FP2's drawn zones, and the configuration options are fewer. For a bedroom, a study, a home office or a small sitting area that is the correct amount of capability and the zoning would go unused. For a fifty square metre villa living room where the seating and dining ends should behave differently, the FP2 is worth the difference. It takes continuous USB-C power, as all radar sensors do.
Lights hold while people sit still, unlike a motion sensorJoins Apple Home or Google directly with no vendor hub
Light level condition stops daytime false triggers
The lowest cost entry into presence detectionModel Matter presence sensor
| Protocol | Matter over Wi-Fi |
| Hub required | No vendor hub. Needs a Matter controller such as a HomePod, Apple TV, Echo or Nest Hub |
| Sensing type | Millimetre wave radar, detects a stationary person |
| Zones | Single presence zone, no multi-zone drawing |
| Additional sensing | Ambient light level on most variants |
| Power | Continuous USB-C, no battery option |
| Mounting | Wall or ceiling, aimed into the occupied area |
| Works with | Apple Home, Alexa, Google Home, any Matter controller |
Presence sensorUSB-C cablePower adapterMounting bracketA sensible first presence sensor for a Dubai apartment, where rooms are smaller and zoning adds little, and where an Apple or Google household usually already has a Matter controller sitting on the TV unit. It needs constant USB power, which in a finished apartment normally means mounting near an existing socket at high level and accepting a short visible cable run, or planning the supply properly during a fit-out. Radar carries through gypsum partitions, so avoid mounting it flat against a stud wall shared with a corridor or the neighbouring unit, or it will report presence in an empty room. For large open villa living areas, the Aqara FP2 and its zones are the better specification.
Meross in the UAE. Budget Matter-certified devices stocked on Amazon.ae, in Type-G variants.
