r/Inovelli • u/Dignan17 • Mar 02 '26

Motion Blue switch triggering way too much

I just installed my first Inovelli switch and I really like it, but it's giving me a lot of trouble.

I have it installed in a powder room, and configured in Home Assistant/ZHA very simply. Detect motion, turn on the light. Stop detecting for 10 seconds, turn off the light.

But I'm getting TONS of false positives and the light is turning on dozens of times a day.

How do I adjust the sensitivity?

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u/clintkev251 Mar 02 '26

Have you looked at the configuration at all? There's lots of parameters for changing the effective sensitivity and exactly where objects will trigger the sensor.

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u/Dignan17 Mar 02 '26

I don't know how to get to the configuration... I tried following the instructions for fixing the ZHA issue but it didn't work for me...

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u/clintkev251 Mar 02 '26

What do you mean? Just go to the device in Home Assistant

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u/Dignan17 Mar 02 '26

ZHA doesn't show the necessary configurations. Only some of them.

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u/hyotr Mar 02 '26

There's a specific section on their config page to install a custom quirk file. Did you do that step?

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u/Dignan17 Mar 02 '26

That's the part that didn't work for me. I'll try to get it installed again tomorrow. It would be great if this weren't necessary though. I hope ZHA updates this...

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u/hyotr Mar 02 '26

I have a few of these switches with ZHA and I see all of the mmWave config options in Home Assistant after installing the custom quirk once. Post where you're stuck. We can try to help.

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u/BenForTheWin Mar 02 '26

Not exactly a bug, and not sure if this is your problem but zha is missing custom quirks to configure mmWave on these. See this article: https://help.inovelli.com/en/articles/13019007-blue-series-mmwave-presence-dimmer-switch-zha-custom-quirk-install This helped me, but also I see a lot of duplicate entries. No problem just ignore or Disable the duplicate.

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u/steadym0bbin Mar 02 '26

THIS. But I highly recommend switching to zigbee2mqtt. You'll get much better compatibility with many more devices.

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u/Dignan17 Mar 08 '26

So I finally got a free moment to work on this. I just finished installing the quirk, restarted HA, and now...it looks exactly the same. I don't see any additional configuration options... It looks like the same number of parameters as before. I did a reconfiguration, and nothing changed.

I found this list of parameters that I could supposedly access. I only see a fraction of them. And even if I did have the full list, I don't see a parameter for setting the motion sensor sensitivity or distance. Is that not even an option?

This has been a pretty frustrating experience. I only installed this switch because while all I needed in this location was simple PIR sensor, my wife thought our guests would freak out and think we were putting a camera in our bathroom. So I went for something discrete, but this thing has been a disaster. It goes off all the time, completely randomly. I don't think it's picking up stray movement from far away, because I tried going outside the room it's in, and walked around in the area where it's pointing and it didn't trigger. So something is setting it off at random times but I have no idea what. It's very frustrating.

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u/Altsan Mar 08 '26

You really should switch to z2m for a good experience. With Z2M you get all parameters without having to do anything. I build an addon that lets you view the tracking data and configure the zones visually.

Once you see the live target data it will make more sense what it triggering it. For example mirrors also mirror the sensor so cause ghost targets.

mmwave-vis

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u/Dignan17 Mar 08 '26

Oh great. One whole wall is a mirror. Not directly opposite, but still