#New to Zigbee2MQTT and having difficulties understanding whats going on, and vibration sensor config

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hexed forge
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I recently switch from ZHA to zigbee2mqtt and ive had lots of minor issues that I am struggling to make sense of. I also have a new Aqara vibration sensor that I am struggling to see working (beyond that its showing logs). It could be that my zigbee2mqtt understanding will help the vibration sensor, but they could be unrelated.

To simplify this conversation, I am going to focus on a specific automation and series of devices. However, this isn't the only one I am experiencing similar issues on. In my hallway I have 3 sensors, two motion sensors and 1 door sensor, all Aqara Zigbee devices. Between 8am and 11pm, any hallway movement should turn two non-zigbee bulbs on. Outside of these times, the lights come on at 5% brightness. If the door sensor opens, the lights come on to 100%, regardless of the time. This worked 100% for months on ZHA.

Now that I have moved to Zigbee2mqtt, the automation seems to trigger 50% of the time. One of the devices seems to sometimes just not detect movement, and I cant tell if its because mqtt isnt getting a message or the device just decided to no longer detect.

I also have a new Aqara vibration sensor, that while I can see payloads with movement in the logs. I cant see any attributes that I can use to do anything with the device. The vibration shows up under devices but not on the dashboard.

I realize this question is a big general, but I am hoping some troubleshooting information and general knowledge may help me understand what is happening

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Vibration sensor in logs:

[2025-06-18 15:24:36] debug: z2m: Received Zigbee message from 'Office Fan Vibration Sensor 1', type 'attributeReport', cluster 'manuSpecificLumi', data '{"280":1}' from endpoint 2 with groupID 0
[2025-06-18 15:24:36] info: z2m:mqtt: MQTT publish: topic 'zigbee2mqtt/Office Fan Vibration Sensor 1', payload '{"action":"movement","battery":null,"linkquality":255,"report_interval":"10s","sensitivity_adjustment":"medium","update":{"installed_version":-1,"latest_version":-1,"state":null},"voltage":null}'
[2025-06-18 15:24:36] info: z2m:mqtt: MQTT publish: topic 'zigbee2mqtt/Office Fan Vibration Sensor 1/action', payload 'movement'

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Map in case its useful:

hexed forge
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Think im just gonna switch back to ZHA, dunno what im doing wrong but it just seems too slow and doesnt work half the time

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I can see both my motion sensors going off and then 3 seconds later the lights finally come on, that never happened with ZHA, it was instant. Just now I walked the length of my hallway, in the dark, sat down in my office and then the lights came on,.