Philips Hue Indoor Motion Sensor for Smart Lights (Requires Hue Hub, Installation-Free, Smart Home, Exclusively for Philips Hue Smart Bulbs)

I've been with the Phillips Hue ecosystem for a little over a year and a half completely happy. I thought I would never buy a motion sensor to be honest with you, it's funny that I'm writing this review. I have about 24 and counting of their lights bought this motion sensor for indoors and less than a week later I bought two outdoor motion sensors for back in front of the house just because of the experience of this one.It's sensitive, very customizable, and connectivity is excellent because it uses Zigby/2.4 Wi-Fi the more products you have lingering around like for example the lights, sensors, door connectors, etc. they transmit a signal creating a spider mesh type of web to allow the object to talk to each other and send the commands making it more accurate even if your Wi-Fi isn't perfect. I still would recommend a decent Wi-Fi or possibly a mesh Wi-Fi system. Now this is meant to work with the Phillips Hue Bridge so if you're looking at this, there's a 99% chance you already have a bridge. (Plus know this)The battery life is excellent. It uses a standard Hearing Aid type of battery. The flat kind Phillips estimate replacing every two years they may even extend a little more depending on how much it being triggered or used. I would say that it's good value for the money, considering all the options and things you can integrate into your personal smart home.It's pretty straightforward straight out of the box. It's ready to work once you pull a little connecting slip off the battery. It comes with the mounting type of connection basically a regular screw that you screw into the wall and combination with your sensor and it permanently stays on there.Now, if you look at my image, I didn't use any of that but it's on the wall how? The back mounting of the unit itself pops out it's basically a little rubber magnet that would separate the nail that goes into the wall. What I did is buy a small quarter type of magnet with M3 adhesive in the back of it for indoors, of course put that on the wall and simply just connected the motion sensor on it. Because the back is magnetic, you can mounted without drilling anything into the wall. But like I said, it's your own personal taste. It's in the area of the living room that has massive amount of traffic.I like the ability to remove it without drilling into the wall and it holds completely secure because the rubber of the connects onto the unit itself has a very strong magnet, plus with the combination of the other manget I have on the wall. It's like it belongs there no wiggle. Easy in/out and it still has some resistance so it's not like it can be yanked out rapidly of course you don't have to use this method. You could just simply set it. Something 6 feet in height or on top of the table or wherever you needed. In my application at work better hereCustomization within the app is pretty straightforward. Once you basically pair it and find a place for it. You can set a 24 hour clock setting for example: I have mine set at 7 AM in the morning till 7:30 PM at night to not mess with the lights anytime after that would be considered nighttime, so if it's dark, auto turn on the lights, which you can customize by the way. It also works perfectly in unison. If you have an automation with your Phillips Hue set up by having it turned on and off during sunset and sunrise your personal lights so you can combine it with and it will start working like a normal sensor if it's dark. It's great for putting something in the hallway, etc. or simply a high tropic area but you have to tweak it. That way you don't have the lights triggering on during the day unless of course your house is more dimmed and you prefer it that way and don't mind the occasional lights going on and off (during day) you can also set a timer for them. Shut off in 2 minutes, shut off 30 minutes, etc.Mine are pretty much set on sleep mode during the day because my house is very open with tons of lights coming in. You can tweak it including the sensitivity. It's one of those things. It's very hard to describe. You have to do it yourself each house and place a different. And the cool thing? When you're tweaking it, it allows it to flash a light in front of the sensore to let you know: I can see you! and from there move the dialer sensitivity up or down. This includes the light sensitivity, including motion.Each motion sensor can only hold three specific zones/room: I have living room, hallway, and kitchen. This is for when somebody wakes up because the rooms are located in the hallway to go into the living room and it will trigger turning on the lights on the hallway, dimmed the living room, halfway dim and the kitchen fully 100% brightness. Our house has multiple rooms, not only in the hallway but in the opposite section. Also not everybody goes to sleep at the same time if they're in the guest bedroom and they walk out it can trigger the lights and set safe for example, 10 minutes for them to go get water food and then go back to do whatever they're do if somebody wakes up to go to the kitchen hypothetically or the guest bedroom or outside the light will manually turn on.You can set a timer for indoors. I have mindset primarily for 10 minutes. This is kind of irrelevant, but if you end up buying an outdoor motion sensor, like I did, set the outside timer for whatever time you want the lights on, but in my usage, 2 min for outdoors only. I have it set so when my dad comes in randomly late at night from outside the parking area. The lights will trigger the outdoor lights only and then when crossing the indoor motion center (this one) will trigger all the other indoor lights, but keep them permanently on up until he manually changes of himself or leaves. This is perfect for the days that he comes to grab his fishing or hunting equipment at 4 AM in the morning. He doesn't need to touch anything just walk in and grab the stuff and go and the lights shut off in preset 10 min.The best part about this? Is that every time the person processes the sensor the time reset this is perfect so when he's going around getting his gear, making coffee, or going to the bathroom. He has to cross the center, which constantly triggers it the timer to reset. Which allows him to basically do whatever he's doing and leave for the night and I don't have to worry about the lights and he doesn't have to worry about it either.There's also a failsafe inside the app I believe it's called do not disturb when you set everything up including the lights and the brightness and which rooms to turn on etc. turned on do not disturb. This is a good feature because of hypothetically you came in and you manually changed the lights to turn on and the sensor won't shut them off if it's notices lights are being used. My situation is mostly active from 7:30 PM at night time up till 7 AM. If it notices, the lights are being used inside the house it won't mess with them or trigger them on or off.

These are excellent I have several basically I used the magnetic feature put them in a closet that has magnetic shelves and when I open the door, the tape lights come on automatically and shut down after five or 10 minutes.These are bulletproof the best motion sensors I’ve bought and I have them in four or five places in my house. The sensitivity is perfect. It’s a great value for the money way cheaper than wiring lights in the closet. I use the time delay all the time and I use it with Siri or HomeKit.I bought one used in the battery wasn’t excellent, but once I replaced the battery, the battery life is great. Maybe I replace them every year or two I’m not sure but it’s so good. I don’t even think about it.It has great connectivity. I use out on the garage to turn on garage lights as well. I also use them in closets and in my kitchen when cooking the lights automatically come on under the cabinets, which is a game changer.

Good sensor that is easy to install and very reliable. I've only had it fail once to turn on the lights out of 8 months. Even then, all I had to do is leave the room and come back 5 seconds later and it started working again. Battery life seems to be good. Still on original batteries after 8 months and the sensor is used daily.

I bought several Hue products to act as a system for automating my household lights in certain rooms for daily use, & also to give the illusion that someone is at home when no one is. The products included the one for which I am posting this review, and I will be posting the identical review for the other products I bought. The products involved are the White Ambiance Decorative Candle 40 W dimmable, the White Ambiance 60W Dimmable, the Dimmer Switch with Remote, the Motion Sensor, and the Hue Hub. I use these products over an eero based WiFi system, with the Apple HomeKit app operating on my Apple TV4. I control them remotely from my iPhone and my iPad, using the Home app from Apple and the Hue app. (You really need to use both to set the system up, because it maximizes your options to do so.)Setting up the system was quite easy, and all of the accessories work as one would expect. Nevertheless, there is room for improvement, which is why I’ve rated all of them, together, as 4 rather than 5 stars.The biggest problem I have with the system concerns our chandeliers. Both of the ones we have are dimmable, and one of them is controlled by switches at two different doorways. Both of them take 3 light bulbs, and neither of them will function reliably if all three of the bulbs are Hue bulbs. The problem is that when all three of the bulbs are Hue bulbs, they flicker on & off, rendering it impossible to use the chandelier at all. This is a known issue with certain light fixtures which are dimmable, and Phillips is upfront with the likelihood that this could occur. Unfortunately, you won’t know if you have the problem till you try it out. The best solution is to rewire the chandeliers so that they are not dimmable. But pending having that done, I discovered that the living room chandelier works just fine if one light socket is left empty. Not true for the dining room chandelier, but for that one, I discovered that if two of the bulbs are Hue, and the third is a refrigerator light bulb, the flickering does not occur. The problem is that in order to use the scheduling & remote features for the Hue bulbs, the socket the bulbs are in have to be switched on all the time, which means that in the dinning room, the refridgerator light winds up being on all the time.A minor problem I have with Hue lights is that they are all 60 watts (or less). This is not bright enough to read by. For instance, I had three 100 watt bulbs in both our chandeliers, and even when I get three Hues to operate correctly in them, it’s not quite bright enough. I’m hoping that Phillips is working on higher watt versions of the Hue bulbs.The remote device and the motion detector work just fine. Oddly, the motion detector also gives the temperature at the place where it is positioned.For what it’s worth, the ordinary Hue bulbs will work outside even when the temperature drops as much as 20 degrees below zero. At least, that’s been my experience after about a month of use involving a lot of subzero temperatures.

It works perfectly, is set up with Hue flawlessly and efficiently, and easily connects to my Hue bridge. Don't mount it towards the mirror, or it will reflect IR beams back and generate false-positive inputs - the sensor is quite sensitive. Value-wise, it's OK, I guess, but there are not many choices of sensors in the Hue lineup.