Everything Presence One

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I’m really pulling my hair out on this 1. The Everything Presence One sensor seems like an amazing sensor, and I hear nothing but good about it; however…….I cannot for the life of me get it setup! I can’t seem to find any good help anywhere either! There is very little information even on this forum! I’ve tried everything I could think of as well as everything I could find on this forum and the very little info I found elsewhere……..CAN SOMEONE PLEASE HELP!!?? This is a very expensive sensor and I’d like to get my money’s worth! lol

I have a Homey Pro early 2023

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Just search this forum: Everything Presence One?

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I did, and tried everything that was suggested, which wasn’t much, that’s why I’m seeking more help

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Well, in order that some one might be able to help you, you have to be more specific which steps you have done and which step failed and describe the failure.

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It’s been a while, I gave up on it. So I don’t remember exactly, but I went to the Everything presence one website and followed the instructions exactly, trying with Homme assistant and SmartThings as Homey is not on the website. After that failed, I followed what was on the Homey forum here Everything Presence One? - #4 by Brian_Chaney

And nothing worked

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OK so I just tried again, I went to their website setup guide Alternative Setup Guide for EP1 in Home Assistant Tried flashing it every way possible via the alternative method, using a windows PC as I don’t have a Home Assistant hub, I do have a SmartThings hub, but I didn’t even bother trying to connect it to that. Then I tried stopping it right before the Wi-Fi setup (as it said in the Homey forum, also tried holding the boot button while clicking install (which was suggested on the EP1 site), still nothing. So the firmware installs perfectly, but I can’t connect it to my Wi-Fi, nor Homey (obviously).

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Everything Presence One? - #6 by Brian_Chaney tells you to stop àfter the WiFi set up.

See Set up your EP1 device in Home Assistant , which step fails?

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I don’t have Home Assistant, I only have Homey

I use this setup guide Alternative Setup Guide for EP1 in Home Assistant to set it up

I now was able to connect it to my WiFi, I then stopped it, but every time I try connecting it to Homey it doesn’t find it.

I get this screen immediately!

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I have the same problem.
I have 3 Everything Presence lite.
Two of them under firmware v1.03 (very old) works perfectly in homey.
I upgraded one of them to a newer firmware and it stopped being recognized in homey.
I contacted Lewis and he sent me a link to an old firmware, but I cannot flash it…don’t know why.
Lewis stopped responding to my e-mails…

If someone want to try, I can email you the BIN file so you can try and flash your Everything Presence lite.

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When I bought one a couple of months ago I think I might have ran into a similar problem as you described; found a thread on the everything presence github: Unable to connect Everything Presence Lite (can't find the device) · Issue #13 · RobinBol/io.everythingsmart · GitHub

Unfortunately I did not find a solution there (looks like it might need some digging in the code). So I’ve put it in the drawer hoping for an update at some point…

I was very surprised lately that homey put it in one of their articles lately, made me hope it would be fixed by now… Smart mmWave Presence Sensors | Best Buy Guide

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Hi everyone! I’ve actually been working hard last few weeks on official Homey support for both EP1 and EPL after some good demand.

Just published the first version now and it’s working well. It uses the Native ESPhome API to communicate with the device so very fast and responsive. It also configures the wifi credentials over bluetooth and setup process is very nice.

I am sure there will be bugs but please join the discord server or drop me an email and can take a look at them.

https://homey.app/en-gb/app/com.everything.presence/Everything-Presence/test/

Thanks Robin for creating the app initially for the last few years, we wanted to add official support as we had a lot of customers asking for it.

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That’s good to hear. Thank you for working on it.

I’m currently using the ‘Everything smart’ app to interface to my EP Lite and it’s working well. Do you have any guidance for switching between the two apps? Is it just a case of removing the device from Homey, removing the ‘Everything smart’ app, installing ‘Everything presence’ and reinstalling the EP Lite using your instructions?

Andy

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I’m quite a beginner to Homey myself so not too sure, but I would imagine you would remove the EPL as a device, remove the older app, install the new test app and then follow the steps through there

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@EverythingSmartHome I have a EP1 sensor that I would like to use in Homey. With your new app it is recognized and added but immediately reports it as unavailable making it unusable.

Any chance that you can see what the issue is in the diagnostic report I have send you from the app?

“2f4847fc-816a-411f-9a3a-2128d2bfecc2”

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Hello, is this on fresh firmware or have you been using it in another system previously? Have you changed the firmware at all?

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Good morning and thank you for replying.

It gets regulary updates via Home Assistant (ESPHome 25.08.04) and it runs the standard yaml files from your Github.

Greetings,

Rudy.

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Thanks, that explains the issue. So have you added to ESPHome builder and Home Assistant? If so, this won’t work as ESPHome has a limitation of 1 connected device, so you can’t have both Homey and Home Assistant connected to the EP1 at the same time, you will get disconnects every couple of minutes.

The issue of why you aren’t seeing any data in the first place I suspect, is do you have it added to ESPHome builder? If so, this adds an encryption key which also won’t work with Homey

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I commented out the encryption key and disabled the EP1 in HA. (But kept it in ESPHome builder to be able to update it easily).

And now it’s working. Thank you for your help on this!

I see in the triggers that we only have flowcards for the motion sensor. Would it be possible to split those up in PIR/mmWave/Occupancy?

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Possibly yes, at the moment you can choose the behaviour under advanced settings > motion source

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I did see that option, only downside is that you set it for both the on and of detection. Separate cards would give the option to select different ones for this.

Thank you once again for your support!