Agreed can’t trust ST battery reporting. Replace it.
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So I want to put more of these motion sensors around the house, but WAF is very against the green flash of the LED when motion is detected, especially in the living room, etc. I saw it mentioned to put tape over it, but what kind of tape? Electrical tape? Masking tape? Will it block the IR motion detection?
Is there a way to simply get the temperature from the Iris Motion Sensor and display it? I would love to have a Stringify or IF Do button that I could press and get the temperature from the sensor. All that that the SmartThings app seems to expose is changes in temperature to which an action is taken and not just a simple report of the temperature.
Where are you wanting to display it?
Are you wanting to see it on your phone? Or do you Amazon Alexa? Would you line it sent to you via text upon request or at a scheduled time?
Check out EchoSistant. You can just ask your Alexa what the temp is and it will tell you.
Yes, either on smartphone or Alexa. I will check this out.
its already present on your phone when you look at the device page…
Yes, I know. Too many taps to get to it though. Since I have ST hooked up with Alexa, I should be able to tell Alexa to ask the device for the current temperature. It looks like EchoSistant might give me what I want, so I’ll be checking it out.
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Have you looked into the Xaiomi motion sensors? No led but also no temp. They work great with the V2 hub. Infact I swapped out 3 of my Iris((since they work on my V1 at a second location) for them and the wife hasn’t noticed yet. 
Xiaomi link
I think I’ll try ordering a few… $10 is better than $40 for the iris sensors! As long as they work…
Have you used them around pets? We have a small-ish cat at home, and she sometimes trips the Iris sensors, wondering if these will trigger as easily with the cat, or if they’ll ignore small pets
Are there pairing issues like some of the other Xiaomi items? I think I finally got my two humidity sensors to calm down…
I have a couple ST motion’s that just suck, 78% battery last night, and it was sensing motion a few times a minute due to a dead battery…
First pairing can take some patience. Catchall works best. After that they have been rock solid.
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Can’t say the cat has set one off yet. Dog has but she is 65lbs.
What do you mean by this? Catchall works best?
I have Iris motion sensors at my mother in laws. I just need motion not temperature. I am trying to find a way (wife and sister in law request) for them to see last motion events on these sensors.
I was thinking if the Xiaomi “only do motion” I could set up simple device viewer for them both to see the last motion event. They could log in the smartthings app and drill down from there but both are looking for a simple quick way to look at last motion. With the Iris sensors the last event in Simple Device Viewer could be a temperature report or a motion event.
The easiest thing would be to just remove the temperature report in the Iris motion sensors, but that would require the ability to read,edit and write the groovy code for my specific use.
Catchall is an entry in the hub log (not live logging) that shows when you push the button on the device. One of the number strings in the bigger string is the network ID that you put in the device in the IDE.
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Thank you @michaelahess for the explaination. I’ll have to keep pondering for a solution for my wife’s desire.
Has anyone had an issue where their motion detector got “stuck” on Active status for hours, even though there was no motion. This happened to mine a few times this week. Battery level said 100%. I measure it and it was 3.03V which seems fine. After putting the battery back in it seems to be behaving fine now. Just wonder if the sensor perhaps is going bad and this is now likely happen again or or if its just a fluke. I’ve heard about things like false motion being triggered but this was different in that it was correctly going to active with motion, but then not going back to inactive when motion stopped for an extended period. Thanks.
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Yep, that’s happened to me several times. I had to put a drop dead time on my goodnight routine so that it’ll still run even if things didn’t “quiet down”
same problem here. some of them are getting stuck on active motion but never reset. It’s driving me crazy. Otherwise great products.
Has anyone noticed since the last firmware update the battery reporting is constantly at 100%?