I am actually very happy with the smartthings motion sensors. I have around 20 of them and since moving my zigbee bulbs away from directly connected to smartthings and onto the hue hub, I very rarely get any drop outs. I also have many fibaro motion sensors which I recommend as they are very reliable, but they are ever so slightly slower.
Exactly. I havenāt forced my zigbee mesh to reset in many, many months. Having several of those plugs and removing the Osram bulbs did the trick for me. I even have 12 GE bulbs working great.
The same for my zwave mesh. I can honestly say I canāt remember the last I ran a zwave repair. If anything ever acts up, itās almost always a device misbehaving which is fixed via Replace or pulling the airgap switch.
Yeah those are good too, but I really didnāt like the coin battery and difficulties mounting in corners. I still have three, and they do work very well.
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So did you walk away entirely from the Monoprice sensors? If I recall correctly, I was using your device type to remove the extra tiles in the app on those ones.
I still use the monoprice motion sensors for outside use, like my back deck, under a deck, and under a couple eves.
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My point exactly why when I replaced my hub I retired the new ST sensors. And boy the new contact sensors went straight to the trash. My favorite are the older version of ST, followed by NYCE ceiling for Zigbee and Fibaro followed closely by Aeon multi the new version for zwave. I do have quite a few Ecolink tooā¦ I havenāt had Zigbee dropped out cold in months but I do get a few stuck on regular basis. And that was the main reason I got rid of the coin batteries. Itās much easier to pull a bigger battery out than fighting with a coin oneā¦
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Donāt they have the coin batteries? I remember looking at them when and didnāt like the batteries, so I went with NYCE. I like the Iris form small form, though.
Iris contact and motion gen2 are both CR2ās.
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Iāve lost track of this thread (bedtime for meā¦). You mean the ST ones? If so, yes. Iām afraid to touch them if anything goes on those because of the crappy battery compartment design. The Iris are CR2ās.
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Battery type is one column I keep on my spreadsheet of devices/capabilities/location. Only have three types to stock so not too bad.
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Do the Iris motion sensors work better than the SmartThings sensors when it comes to false alarms due to dramatic light changes? I have all SmartThings sensors currently, but I have had to disable problematic rooms/zones from home monitoring due to false alarms.
Iāve not had issues with either. They are pir, infrared, so light doesnāt affect then just any associated heat. If you have them in direct line of the sun, that can affect them as well.
Great sensors but have to agree the battery compartment is a disaster. Iāve broken two over the last 10 months even though Iāve followed correct process in removing and adding batteries. Whomever designed that part deserves an award for worst design of the year for that.
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