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

I previously used a SmartThings motion sensor but, for whatever reason, that sensor had 2 problems that this sensor (when used in conjunction with a hue bridge) does not. First - that one took a moment to respond. It wasn’t a long time per se but it was long enough that I might as well just go flip the light switch myself. Secondly the SmartThings motion sensor would sometimes lose connection. It wasn’t often but it happened a few times and in fact the final time I was bever able to get it connected again. So I bought the hue motion sensor. BIG IMPROVEMENT. It registers the motion and triggers the associated routines nearly instantly and it has never once lost connection. It costs more than the SmartThings one but I have a lot of smart home devices and the best advice i can give is : reliability is king. Its not worth saving money on a device that won’t work every time you need it to work. TLDR: Pros: — works nearly instantly — reliable and stable (stays connected) — compatibility with a huge variety of other smarthome ecosystems (I use it in alexa routines which allow it to control almost anything that works with alexa — great value (worth the price) Cons: — does cost more than budget options

Typically expensive Hue accessory, but worth it for offline operation. Requires the Hue hub, which is where you want to set up the motion lights (as opposed to in an Alexa routine). The motion lights continue to work, even if you unplug your router, the Internet is having trouble, etc. What a revelation, that these are able to match the utility of "dumb" motion lights, ancient X10 systems, etc. :) Very easy to set up with the Hue hub and app and Alexa sees them almost immediately as well. Give it a name, tell it which room (or zone) it is in and it is off and running. That being said, $50 is still pretty outrageous for such a thing. This is my second one and the first has worked trouble-free for years. Come to think of it, the battery should be getting pretty low by now, but the app has not yet warned about it. They certainly outlast the sticky switches, despite near constant use in my application. Update for Alexa routine users: as expected, the extra complication of communicating between Philips and Amazon (through the Cloud?!) can break, rendering related routines useless. Light still comes on, of course, but no routine-based extras while they work out whatever happened. This feature had been reliable up until now. :( Update: They fixed the routines quickly. No issues since.

I love these Phillips lamps. I did get the Phillips hub, and use Apple Home, which makes these absolutely amazing. The color and control is excellent, and they make good “sunrise” wake up lamps in the bedroom. The motion detector works well for our outside light, which I’m also quite grateful for. I have purchased these before, and will again.

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.

Nothing beats Phillips Hue with their products. Works great as described.

This works with Alexa, and is sufficiently small to be unnoticeable to unwelcome intruders.

easy to attach and start using right away. can attach it directly to fridge using the magnetic attachment in box. can also attach it to light fixtures and vents magnetically without screwing anything in. setup is fairly simple with hue app. best used in hallways. automatically can switch off light after 5 mins of no motion detection. can change that in settings. choose light sensitivity using hue app so it will adjust light brightness based on how much light the sensor detects. works great with iphone and home app in general on ios.

Good choice for home improvement

Compre dos sensores, los posicione en las escaleras, uno en planta baja y otro en planta alta, así que cuando es de noche y pasas, en mi caso enciende la luz de la escalera y pasillo de planta alta, simplemente amo. Super fácil de sincronizar y tiene opciones buenas para que los configures a tu gusto. La batería por cierto les dura literal años y te avisa cuando ya es tiempo de cambiarla.