I have this room in the House where my Hub cant reach that area no matter what i do, so I need to find a solution to mount a Motion Sensor there. I have tried the Shelly WIFI motion sensors… but i have soo much issues with them… that i am about to give up on them! i was able to finally get them integrated with HA, but now both of them lost the connection with my AP… i dont know if it has to do with that… but i am so disapointed with Shelly. I cant even connect them to the Shelly App… what a disapoitment…
does anyone have any clever solution or any other type of Motion Sensor. WIFI is fine since i can get power to them easily!
thank you in advance
I assume that you originally setup the Shelly motion sensors using the App which connects to the temporary Shelly SSID in order to allow you to enter your home WiFi credentials and once you moved the motion sensors to the remote location then they stopped working. It may be they the sensors are out of your WiFi coverage and that is why the Shelly App no longer works - it could be your WiFi that is the problem and nothing to do with Shelly. Have you tried moving the motion sensors nearer your AP to see if they start working again? If so then relocating your AP or installing an additional AP might be a possible solution.
Have you thought about just installing a zwave switch or plugging a zwave outlet (in other words, a repeater) between that far away sensor and the rest of your network?
Hello,
1st of all thank you! well i did went over there to check, and for some reason that specif one just lost connection, and for some reason didnt come back. but ive restarted it and its working so far. Lets hope it continues. Its just that these Shelly devices are so sensitive, in my case particular! I will continue to test them out since i will need at least 6 more of these.!
I have tried it… but for some reason the lag is huge! maybe because of the Thick walls in this livingroom. But i will give it a go again at Shelly motion sensors and see if they keep stable.