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add/update DIY Zigbee chair occupancy sensor
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## Automations

<img src="images_chair/graph_hours_occupancy.jpg" alt="History graph Card in Home Assistant" width="400px">

With this new sensor, it's possible to make all kind different automations, a few examples are:
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## Required hardware

This project only requires these two devices: A sensor to detect true or false and a pressure sensor.
This project only requires these two devices: A boolean sensor to detect true or false and a pressure sensor.

> I have a Zigbee network, so I use a Zigbee contact sensors, but any other protocol sensor can also do the trick.
The first sensor needs to detect anything or nothing.
The first device needs to detect anything or nothing.
This can be achieved with two different types of sensors.
A water leak sensor or a contact sensor.
Both work with a boolean (true of false) state.

1a. [Aqara Water leak sensor](/buy/smart_home_best_buy_tips#leak-sensor) (No soldering required)\
The Aqara leak sensor has two metal screw contacts on the back of the sensor where you can connect the two wires behind.
The Aqara leak sensor has two metal screw contacts on the back of the sensor where you can connect direct the two wires of the pressure sensor behind.

<a href="/buy/smart_home_best_buy_tips#leak-sensor">
<img src="/buy/images_zigbee/aqara_leak_sensor.webp" alt="Aqara water leak sensor" width="200px">
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<img src="/buy/images_diy/pressure_sensor.webp" width="200px" alt="pressure sensor" /> <img src="images_chair/pressure_mat_bigger.avif" width="200px" alt="pressure sensor" />
</a>

To connect them together, you need also some soldering tools if you use the contact sensor:
To connect them together, and you use the contact sensor you need also some soldering tools:
* [Soldering iron](../buy/esphome_diy#soldering-iron)
* [Soldering iron tin](../buy/esphome_diy#soldering-tin-wire)

With the leak sensor, you only need to strip the protection layer from the pressure sensor cables, that it.

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## Wire them together
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