Leviton ODS15-IDW Smart Wallbox Sensor, PIR 15A Switching, 120-277VAC, App Configurable with The Smart Sensor App, White

It turns the light on/off---manually or because someone enters the space or has left. It works with LEDS (older switches don't). It's expensive, BUT...You can adjust the time the light stays on after the room is empty. (Don't want the lights to go out while you're in the shower)You can adjust the distance at which the switch senses a person, and you can shutter the sensor to reduce the area that the sensor views. (This prevents the light coming on when someone walks by the open doorway of a room with the switch). With the range adjustment and wide angle view, the switch functions in larger areas like my garage and shop even when I enter from the opposite side and stays on no matter where I am in the room.Because my shop and garage have a lot of light fixtures, watt capacity of a switch is an issue even with LED's (lower watt consumption). This switch will handle larger loads.You can adjust the switch to always come on or to only come on in low light situations.Great for bathrooms, storage rooms, basements, garages, shops, barns, outbuildings, stairways. Great if it's dark or you have your hands full. People walk through the house and outbuildings with lights turning on as they approach and going out after they pass. No looking for switches; no lights left on.This seller's price lowest price is pretty good, but depending on the switch color, the price could be wacky and variable.CAUTION: The instructions are clearly written, but the devil is in the details. If the switch fails to work properly, it's most likely installer error. For example: there is an "off/on/auto" toggle on the front-bottom of the switch that has a purpose (never mind what), but it is not accessible with the switch cover plate on. You wouldn't know it's there if you didn't read the instructions. If you "fat-thumb" that toggle out of the "auto" position during installation, the switch will never work, and you won't know why.The switch is automatic. You can switch it off manually as you leave, but it will automatically turn on if someone passes in range. This is hardly a problem, but if you really want to make it inoperable sometimes, you can install it downhill of a normal off/on light switch.A switch ONLY for those who like to tinker. Not for the "feint of heart."

These were installed two months ago at a bar and a kitchen after upgrading the existing fluorescent lights from T12 (magnetic ballasted) to T8 (electronic ballast).For a circuit to operate there must be a complete current path. Touch the tip of the battery to the light bulb of a flashlight and nothing will happen. Put the battery cap on and slide the switch and it works.The older motion detectors received the power for their circuitry by pulling a small current through the lights. With modern electronic ballast (fluorescent lights) and drivers (LEDs), the small current pulled through the light by the older motion detectors will energize the capacitors and these lights will try to start, but with the switch off they will quickly fade (flicker). This process may repeat.This switch powers its circuitry by drawing current through the hot (black) wire and ground (bare) wire. One of the switches worked intermittently. This was due to a loose connection between the EMT/conduit (metal pipe with the wire inside) and an electrical junction box (3 boxes before the switch). The EMT supplied the ground connection to the switch.Once a good ground connection was provided, the switch worked as desired.The blinders function well to prevent movement in an adjacent room from causing activation.

My only complaint is it is a bit pricy, but I suppose you only get what you pay for. The auto adjusting timing and the shutters work fine. The shutters are for blocking when someone is just passing the doorway and not entering the room. The available light sensing works well also, so if the room is lit by daylight from the window the lights do not come on, but if you want them on, just press the button and turn them on manually. The lights will still shut off automatically when the room is vacated.

Amazon.com gets 5 stars, this wall switch gets 5 stars, and I give myself 1 star for having chosen this product.While that rating must sound strange, I will explain. My old, simple infrared wall switch failed after 10 years. I searched for a replacement and discovered this Leviton ODS15-IDW on Amazon. The description seemed like it could do the most interesting tasks, way beyond my simple, failed switch. I installed it but I could not get it to work. The instructions are well written, in English, and not translated from a foreign language. But because the switch is so incredibly complex, the instructions likewise were incredibly complex. I am a graduate electrical engineer with extensive computer skills but the level of complexity built into this device eluded me.So, I hunted for an electrician who I knew would be able to figure out how to install it. Licensed electricians in my city are easy to find but none could come out to install the switch for at least a month. When the electrician did arrive, he found that the switch was actually dead on arrival. I checked the date when I ordered it and discovered that more than 30 days had elapsed. Amazon's exchange policy is liberal but expires at the end of 30 days. I wrote a note to Amazon asking if they would make an exception in my case and within 3 hours I received a most generous note telling me that they will be making an exception and be sending a replacement immediately. What fantastic customer service! When the replacement switch arrived, I did have the electrician install it and it did work. However, it took a few days of my fiddling with it to get it to do what I wanted, namely, turn on the lights when I walked into the dark garage. But because it had multiple modes of operation and a dynamic learning mode which observed my habits, it actually would change itself trying to improve. The instructions were very readable but just very hard to understand exactly how that switch was going to operate and exactly what you had to do to get it to do something very simple. It is now working just like my simple switch that had failed. I gave myself only 1 star for having chosen a product that really was much more flexible and complex than I would ever need. I would recommend that if you have a simple application for an infrared wall switch that you look at some of Leviton's other much more simple (and less expensive) models which will most likely install easily and work the 1st time perfectly. If you do purchase my model, pay attention to the cautions and warnings in the instruction manual. They are there because the micro computer that is inside this product can be easily destroyed by failing to follow the instructions exactly. Good luck.

This motion sensor switch has long range comparing with other. I installed the TP-Link motion sensor switch before. Although the cost of TP-link didn't cost much more than this sensor switch but range distance played a bigger role as I installed in the basement at the entrance of the bedroom.

PARA UNA OBRA EN UN AREA DE CAFE

Esto es una estafa, cuesta mucho y no hace lo que se dice de el.1) Sensa y prende cuando quiere, a ratos si, a ratos no.Si prendes manualmente, nunca sabes si quedo activado o no, asi que la siguiente seguro tienes que prender manualmente, y no sabes si dejar la luz encendida para quye apague solo pues la mitad de la veces no lo hara.2) Prendera la luz aun de dia, no tiene IR (o funciona tan mal que no sirve)

Installed in my garage and I love it. The best feature in my opinion is that you can adjust the time it will turn the light off after it stops sensing movement in the room. I've setup the time out to 5 minutes and it never turns of when I'm in the garage doing something. You can also adjust it to stay off if there is enough natural light available.