# Tuya Human Presence sensor
**URL:** https://community.homey.app/t/tuya-human-presence-sensor/140530
**Category:** Questions & Help
**Tags:** presence, homey-pro, homey-pro-2023, sensors
**Created:** [July 27, 2025, 4:36pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/tuya-human-presence-sensor/140530 "2025-07-27T16:36:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@Luigi\_Colancecco](https://community.homey.app/u/Luigi_Colancecco)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2025, 4:36pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/tuya-human-presence-sensor/140530/1 "2025-07-27T16:36:32Z")
I have a TUYA mmwave presence sensor, ↑ (This guy) ↑
It seems like the early 2023 Homey-Pro finally has official support for it, but I could only get “human detection” and limited illuminance detection. The latter is my issue. There are no AND cards for illuminance, nor any variables I could use, only a WHEN card that says “WHEN illuminance changes.” But that is kinda useless if I don’t know what the illuminance is and can’t use said illuminance in a flow i.e. WHEN human is detected AND illuminance is less than 30LUX THEN turn on light. Am I missing something or is there no way to do this with this particular sensor?
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### Author:  [@Dijker](https://community.homey.app/u/Dijker)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2025, 4:45pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/tuya-human-presence-sensor/140530/2 "2025-07-27T16:45:31Z")
What type and model is this?
What protocol does this one use?
How did you connect it to Homey?
Cloud or directly?
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### Author:  [@Peter\_Kawa](https://community.homey.app/u/Peter_Kawa)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2025, 5:46pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/tuya-human-presence-sensor/140530/3 "2025-07-27T17:46:57Z")
For AND cards you’re supposed to use logic cards;
If illuminance is present as value, it’s also present as ‘tag’, which you can use in these logics cards.
Recently Athom added these logic cards in the “AND” section, but not each and every value is always present:
In those cases you can find those yourself like this:
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-9zO9khx_E)
[https://support.homey.app/hc/en-us/articles/4410240765586-Using-Homey-Logic-in-Flows](https://support.homey.app/hc/en-us/articles/4410240765586-Using-Homey-Logic-in-Flows)
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### Author:  [@Luigi\_Colancecco](https://community.homey.app/u/Luigi_Colancecco)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2025, 11:01am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/tuya-human-presence-sensor/140530/4 "2025-07-28T11:01:14Z")
There are no logic cards for it, or tags, that’s my issue.
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### Author:  [@Luigi\_Colancecco](https://community.homey.app/u/Luigi_Colancecco)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2025, 11:02am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/tuya-human-presence-sensor/140530/5 "2025-07-28T11:02:11Z")
Not sure if the model number, is kinda generic.
It’s Zigbee
Connected directly using the Homey TUYA app
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### Author:  [@Peter\_Kawa](https://community.homey.app/u/Peter_Kawa)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2025, 5:18pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/tuya-human-presence-sensor/140530/6 "2025-07-28T17:18:56Z")
It’s odd to me when it’s illuminance values are present with the device.
This sort of automatically makes it’s value available in a tag. Usually.
I’m very curious why the tag don’t seem to be present: Can you please show the devices’ capabilities?
You can find it at
[https://tools.developer.homey.app/tools/devices](https://tools.developer.homey.app/tools/devices)
Example:
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### Author:  [@Luigi\_Colancecco](https://community.homey.app/u/Luigi_Colancecco)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2025, 12:47am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/tuya-human-presence-sensor/140530/7 "2025-08-02T00:47:32Z")
It doesn’t show any capabilities, I just have to use a generic TUYA app and only has a few WHEN and THEN cards
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### Author:  [@Peter\_Kawa](https://community.homey.app/u/Peter_Kawa)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2025, 12:09pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/tuya-human-presence-sensor/140530/8 "2025-08-02T12:09:40Z")
Ah, that’s the issue.
Did you add it successfully with the Tuya Zigbee app, _ **or** _ did Homey respond with: “device was added as unknown zigbee device”?
If it did, you’d request for support as explained at post 1 of the [Tuya Zigbee app topic](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-tuya-zigbee-app/26439)
So called unknown zigbee devices are connected with the generic Homey zigbee driver; this supports lights, (metering) plugs, switches and certain other on/off devices.
Generic zigbee devices which only _send_ data, like sensors, are **NOT** supported.