Reliability of SmartThings motion sensors?

[SBDOBRESCU (Bobby)]

@Dwhi

Thinking of switching to the ecolink ones instead.

That’s what I did…

Smartthings sensors: the saga continues

I have posted many times before about the Smartthings sensors (especially the motion sensors) but with my last two retired today, I thought it was a good time to revive this never ending struggle to keep the Smartsense sensors alive. Here is the timeline… April 2016 was the reset day… But then things got progressively worse…And after countless hours spent on beefing up network to avoid interference, adding repeaters left and right, I decided to go one by one to replace any failed zigbee devices with zwave… December 2016… Today, the last two Smartsense motion sensors have been replaced by Aeon 6 multi sensors… After replacing 20 some zigbee sensors one by one since December, I noticed one thing. Only the Smartsense have been doomed as it seems. I have NYCE sensors that are still g…