I’ve never looked back since changing to hue motion sensors. They just sit there, doing their thing, and not even bothering to use much battery power. Still at 100% after about 14 months.
You don’t have to trust in battery percentage for motion or temperature sensors. My indoor temperature sensors were showing battery percentage 100% after 12 to 14 months. But I noticed that sensors became frequently offline or they stopped reporting.
When I went to pair them I noticed that little led is barely flashing on pairing. I bought a new batteries and they are working with out any problems.
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What device?
What does “never go back” mean?
For those still watching this thread… I purchased a Linkind motion detector that has firmware 0x51230002. It had the same issues as mentioned about (motion detected and never clearing).
However, Home Assistance version 2023.2.2 fixes this device (at least so far in my testing). A new quirk was added to support this in zha quirks 0.92; just made it into HA core. The fix adds a timeout to go from detected back to clear.
I can confirm this working on 2023.2.3. The status resets back to clear/no motion detected. At $12 this thing is a steal.
IMO, IKEA’s are the best I’ve tested and certainly best bang for the buck for name-brand product available locally.
Philips Hue Outdoor has been abysmal is reporting for a year and now never shows motion with inconsistent occupancy sensing. POS.
Yeah, unusual for a Philips product. Mine won’t even stay connected to my zigbee network.
old post reviving, are xiaomi’s RTCGQ01LM good enough for indoor lights automation? A local store is selling them at 8$ a piece
I use a few if them. They work. Two things to know,
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They have the typical Xiaomi/aqara described here Xiaomi RTCGQ01LM control via MQTT | Zigbee2MQTT
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When the motion stops they stay “occupied” for 2 minutes. That doesn’t matter to me. It might to you.
I have them too and they’ve been rock solid for me, despite the longish cooldown period. They’re tiny, reliable and the battery has lasted over a year so far.
There’s also a topic here which describes a hardware+ software hack to reduce the cooldown to 5s, though one word of warning. My fat fingers broke the plastic when trying to open the damn thing. You can’t see the crack, but you’ll know it’s there
I don’t fully understand how the cooldown affects, in my case I want some kitchen lights to turn on when presence is detected (inmediate) and turn off (not necessary to be inmediate) when no one is there, I don’t mind if waits one or two minutes before no presence is detected before turning off but yeah the turn on must be right after detected. Do a long cooldown affects me in this case?
Not it the time you wait for the light to turn off is longer then the cooldown period.
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No, turning on the light will be instant. The only edge case where this might cause an issue is if you want to re-trigger the occupancy before the cooldown is over.
Like @francisp said, if you set your light to turn off after the cooldown, then it won’t be an issue
thank you guys! im going for the xiaomi sensor