I have the earlier Multisensors and when I bought the Gen5 it installed easily. Motion is noted immediately. Temperatures and Lux updates fast enough for me. I mounted mine outside above my back door and as soon as I drive up the lights controlled by the Gen5 Multisensor light up without delay. I had to reduce the sensitivity to half scale as it was too sensitive. I’ll be replacing the Gen5 Multisensor as soon as the Gen5 Multisensor 6 is released in late May as the Multisensor 6 will function in down to minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit and has been completely redesigned! I live up in the Rockies it gets down to minus 25 degrees Fahrenheit and colder. I’m hoping that SmartThings supports the Multisensor 6 as soon as possible.
Not sure if you’ve seen that the site The Smartest House is having a pre sale event for the Aeon Series 6 device. And shipping as early as I could find - 5/30. And free shipping. ** I have no affiliation with them. Just was searching for the new device you mentioned and found this sale. And as I JUST bought a Series 5 this week, I think I am going to return it and wait out the 6.
Thanks for the Heads Up Jack,
The new Multisensor 6 for me is a dream come true! I need it for the minus 40 degree Fahrenheit capability but the new Longer Life Batteries plus all the new attributes such as the Flush Mounting in the Ceiling Accessory and USB Power make it a great buy!
Jim
Motion is reported for me immediately with the gen5 devices, but it takes 4 minutes for it to report motion has stopped.
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If you connect USB power in place of the batteries the Multisensor 6 will update in real time.
So it works better with usb then with batteries? doesn’t make sense to me 
For zwave and zigbee, most battery powered devices are designed to limit frequency of reporting in order to extend battery life. That’s true of almost everything except smoke alarms and Doorlocks.
Once connected to mains power, though, that’s not an issue, so reporting can be more frequent.
The ST first generation motion sensor is a good example. When USB Powered, it will act as a repeater. But that requires “always listening,” so when it switches to battery power it turns off the repeater function.
So you run into the frequency interval issue with many different battery powered devices from different manufacturers.
I can’t seem to pair this new gen 5 device.
Can some one tell me how long should I hold the black pairing button?
I get mine to pair…kind of. It just sits as permanently on for motion and no other readings happen. Can’t get a single thing to work on and I have removed and readied multiple times. Red LED light stays on forever.
As an update, mine did finally work after 4 pairings and exclusions…what threw me for a loop was the temperature, humidity, etc, didn’t show up for 8 minutes or so…leading one to believe it wasn’t really working when it was. Just a note if helpful for anyone else that sees this thread.
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@ehoffman73, Can you provide your steps for pairing and exclusion? How long do you have to press the Z-wave button on the Aeon Labs Gen5 to pair and exclude?
I just received a new Gen 5 device and it is stuck on motion active. Now what?
Hey, writing from a plane again, so briefly:
I am not sure what I did it specifically the 4th time I paired was magic, I saw varying levels off pissy purchasers on the web who then had the stupid thing suddenly magically work after a bunch of tries. One thing I noticed was if I went into pair mode on ST app, and held the black button, the red light went faster and faster and faster blinking until off. I didn’t know if this signified extra goodness was happening because I thought maybe the newer Zwave Plus deal or whatever it is going on (brain fart…sorry) needed a little time to fully pair.
In the end on my 3rd thats what I did. Got me all the way to seeing motion and battery…and then I unpaired…exclusion mode, patient black button hits every 30 seconds or so until it would pick it up and exclude.
4th pairing I went into connect on ST, and then hit the black button once every 30 seconds or so until ST saw it. I know that as long as that red light blinks when you pair, its not properly connected. Solid red happened when it was done right.
That’s how it is everyday in the IT world. However, in my case I got it working after the 5th time. The crap device was not choosing the correct device type and thus would pair and not properly work. I figured that this may happen again at a later date and shipped it back to Amazon in exchange for the ST Gen 2 motion sensor… Will update soon.
@ehaseltine
Can you explain how you used your custom “Configure” tile to change the motion detection delay? I click on the configuration tile and nothing happens. I have my sensor plugged into USB and would like it to scan for motion all the time…I’m not worried about battery power.
You can change delay on the script:
def configure() {
delayBetween([
// send binary sensor report instead of basic set for motion
zwave.configurationV1.configurationSet(parameterNumber: 5, size: 1, scaledConfigurationValue: 2).format(),
// send no-motion report 15 seconds after motion stops
zwave.configurationV1.configurationSet(parameterNumber: 3, size: 2, scaledConfigurationValue: 15).format(),
// send all data (temperature, humidity, illuminance & battery) periodically
zwave.configurationV1.configurationSet(parameterNumber: 101, size: 4, scaledConfigurationValue: 225).format(),
// set data reporting period to 5 minutes
zwave.configurationV1.configurationSet(parameterNumber: 111, size: 4, scaledConfigurationValue: 300).format()
])
Check scaledConfigurationValue:
Hi Seva, I think the section of script you posted is from the first generation multisensor. I’ve copied that section of script for the gen5 below
def configureAfterSecure() {
// log.debug “configureAfterSecure()”
def request = [
// send temperature, humidity, and illuminance every 8 minutes
zwave.configurationV1.configurationSet(parameterNumber: 101, size: 4, scaledConfigurationValue: 128|64|32),
zwave.configurationV1.configurationSet(parameterNumber: 111, size: 4, scaledConfigurationValue: 8*60),
// send battery every 20 hours
zwave.configurationV1.configurationSet(parameterNumber: 102, size: 4, scaledConfigurationValue: 1),
zwave.configurationV1.configurationSet(parameterNumber: 112, size: 4, scaledConfigurationValue: 20*60*60),
// send no-motion report 60 seconds after motion stops
zwave.configurationV1.configurationSet(parameterNumber: 3, size: 2, scaledConfigurationValue: 60),
// send binary sensor report instead of basic set for motion
zwave.configurationV1.configurationSet(parameterNumber: 5, size: 1, scaledConfigurationValue: 2),
// disable notification-style motion events
zwave.notificationV3.notificationSet(notificationType: 7, notificationStatus: 0),
zwave.batteryV1.batteryGet(),
zwave.sensorBinaryV2.sensorBinaryGet()
]
setConfigured()
secureSequence(request) + ["delay 20000", zwave.wakeUpV1.wakeUpNoMoreInformation().format()]
}
How would change the delay on this script to always be sensing and reporting motion?
change scaledConfigurationValue: 60 to scaledConfigurationValue: 1
Don’t forget send configuration to %subj%
https://support.smartthings.com/hc/en-us/articles/200879104-My-Aeon-Multi-doesn-t-show-all-its-data
Just setup two of these, both USB powered, so far relatively impressed.
What sort of lux readings are you getting on your sensor, tight now in my lounge around sunset i’m getting 5 lux, which doesn’t seems correct to me?
Those of you that are triggering lighting on based on lux level, what level are you using?
Thanks
Gareth