Lowe's Iris Sensors (New CentraLite models)

I purchased the Qwirky tripper (2 pack) sensors for $40 at home Depot. They work perfect with the v2 once you add the device type and they appear to be smaller and better looking than these. So, that comes out to $20 each. Although the iris ones will probably have better battery life since they are bigger and have a cr2 battery.

FYI - my store still had tons of the old ones and the new still rang up at $25.

Not sure how Lowes pricing works specifically, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it was a systemwide price change/fix this morning.

Been buying these up at home Depot here and using my 10% military discount. All work and pair great with ST!

Yeah I was thinking that was a possibility too. It’s possible the others got them before Lowes had a chance to change the price. I just checked my Lowes and they only have the old.

Still not a bad price at $24 but would be better and more competitive at around $20.
For a while the Quirkys were the cheapest I could find at $40 for a 2 pack but it’s nice now to see the prices of a bunch of different manufacturers coming down.

These are now the same price as the HD deal above and you get a free motion sensor with the HD deal.

I think these are great at $25 especially since they report temperature unlike the quirky tripper.

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Motion sensor is working great, switched device type to SmartSense Motion and its showing battery, temp. Motion is reset seems to be 1 min, Temp is reading 80F and Battery 100, so probably will take sometime for it to update.

This thing is tiny, will post pics in a bit…
iris sensor, Smartthings Motion Sensor, GoControl Motion Sensor

And it has notches for easy corner mounting:(perfect)

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Are these the only new devices that iris is coming out with, motion sensor and door/window sensor?
It’s great to see they are now compatible with ST, more options always better!

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Holy cow that thing is tiny!!!

Thanks for the pics :smile:

And its also slightly angled with sensor pointing down…Will have to test out range and sensitivity and if it works like the other two, they will be replaced… :smiley:

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i went this afternoon

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Motion sensor is working great, switched device type to SmartSense Motion and its showing battery, temp. Motion is reset seems to be 1 min…[/quote]

1 minute to report motion inactive?, seriously?, that’s a lot…

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most motion sensor defaults are lik 3 to five min

My 2 cents in my environment. YMMV.
Zwave: Fibaros
Zigbee: ST
Of course they cost a little more.

If it’s 3-5 minutes to reset detection! Aah! Well, is that a motion sensor? That’s ADT.

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GoControl default is 3 mins, with the custom device type it can be set to 1 min.

And my initial rough guess was wrong, motion reset is only 30 secs for iris motion sensor:

2015-09-29 6:53:02.824 PM CDT
moments ago DEVICE motion active Thing detected motion true
2015-09-29 6:53:34.169 PM CDT
moments ago DEVICE motion inactive Thing motion has stopped true

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wondering if the battery will be drained out quickly as the motion reset quicker.

No proofs here but in theory it should decrease faster, which is why most manufacturer’s go with a higher reset interval…

Not sure which ones you use. I have been using ST’s for approximately one year and fibaros’s for little less and have yet to change the batteries on either.

I have the PEQ from BB which from what I understand is the same as the SmartThings motion sensor and it seems to reset at 30 seconds and the battery seems really good with it.

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Nope, both v2 and v3 centralites are 10 seconds…