Turn on your INSTEON-controlled lights or appliances when you enter the room and turn them off after you’ve left. Truly automating your lighting, this motion sensor is perfect for areas of your home such as the laundry room, closets and the garage where lights commonly get left on. Use this motion sensor for indoor or outdoor applications, and link it to a wall switch, plug-in lamps or appliances. You can even have the motion sensor trigger your thermostat to a favorite comfort level when you enter your home or any room in your house. Additional features include an adjustable ‘Off’ countdown timer delay, night-only mode with adjustable light sensitivity settings, adjustable motion sensitivity, wireless range of up to 150-Feet, 40-Feet field of vision and a pivoting mounting bracket. INSTEON Wireless Motion sensor is a must-have for any INSTEON home automation network as an addition that will make your life more convenient, fun and energy-efficient. A 9-Volt battery is required and included.
$ 34.98
Easy to use motion sensor,
Having used X10 motion sensors which have to be programmed by pushing little buttons and counting presses to set all attributes (each time batteries are replaced) this model is a real joy. It has jumpers which can set all attributes (time out delay, night only or 24 hours, etc.) or one jumper which allows software to set everything. I linked these to my ISY controller and programmed all of the attributes form my keyboard. That was it! It was done! Everything worked! These have the ability to send three different attributes which can be used for control purposes. They send motion detection, dusk/dawn detection and low battery warning. I wrote some code in my ISY (Universal Devices) which emails me any time that any of my three motion sensors sends a low battery warning to tell me to check all of them. Pretty neat.
Range is excellent and battery life has been far better than the X10 Hawkeye sensors. Also. when changing a battery, I never need to reprogram. I just change the battery and I’m done. These cost more but have a larger lens area and “see” a lot more. The swivel mount is a big help in pointing the sensor in the right direction. I’m very pleased with the performance.
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|Unimpressed,
The motion detector does work, however, it could be better. The effective distance is only 30′ not 40′ as advertised. It is difficult to get the day night threshold set. It requires the use of a tiny standard screwdriver to adjust the potentiometer. The results of day/ night threshold adjustments are inconsistent and unpredictable. The potentiometer used to adjust the count down timer has the same issues. There is no way to adjust the ramp rate of the light controlled by this motion sensor. The sensor is fairly sturdy. I drop kicked it across a room (I got a little frustrated while setting the count down timer) and it didn’t break! If you simply require a motion sensor to turn on or turn off a light this motion sensor will work.
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|Great motion sensor,
I have a few of these throughout my house and they work exactly as I had expected. I have one at the bottom of the basement stairs so that when I open the basement door it senses me and throws on the first string of basement lights. I have a few of these in our large garage to catch all of the different angles.
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