Which motion detector would you recommend

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Hi JDRoberts,

Yes, I know a little bit about sensors as I’ve worked intensensly to integrate them with
my Zoned Heating/Cooling solutions and with my ecobee device implementation.

I’d recommend the following 3 sensors:

  1. Iris Motion/Temp Sensors
  2. SmartSense sensor
  3. Wireless Tags (for Temp only) http://wirelesstag.net/
    I love the wireless tags for their small form factor and their long range.

For those of you who are thinking about purchasing the ecobee3 thermostats, (and even though, I’ve worked a lot on the ecobee-SmartThings integration in the past 2 years), I would not recommend
the ecobee3’s remote sensors as the motion component is not meant to be used in real-time for HA
scenarios.

See this known issue for more details:

http://thingsthataresmart.wiki/index.php?title=Ecobee3RemoteSensorInit#Known_issues

The ecobee3’s temp sensor is fine as it can be refreshed every 5 minutes, but not the motion sensor.

EDIT: That’s why I created this smartapp that can integrate any ecobee thermostat (ecobee3, Smart-SI, Smart-02, EMS) with any ST connected temp/motion sensors. See this thread for more details:

Regards.

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