Philips Hue motion sensor
Update June 15 2019:
I put a second pair of batteries (from the same package of batteries) and instead of 67%, these two are reporting 100% battery level and motion and luminance are now working again.
earlier comment
Hue motion sensor has stopped reporting motion and luminance. Sensor died completely at about 4 months. I replaced the batteries (2 AAA) and it came back but motion no longer reported. Couple weeks after replacing the batteries, luminance stops working. Light level channel however continues to function(??) battery level is reporting 67% with few week old batteries
in Paper UI & habmin this device shows up as 3 separate ‘things’
in shows up as a ambient light sensor thing, a motion sensor thing and a temperature sensor thing all with individual channels (some overlapping such as battery level and low battery)
TLDR: good so far with caveat *
Protocol: zigbee
Channels reported:
illuminance
light level
dark
daylight
motion
temperature
last updated (for all 3 things?)
battery level
low battery
Discovery in openhab:
child’s play… popped right up but used Hue app as well
motion detection on motion channel, fast, quick response but time out built in. not good for real time lighting
Battery type 2 X AAA (last a little less then 6 months)
cheap 32$us
more details
sensors is big and obvious, 2.17" x 2.17" x .79" (55mm x 55mm x 20mm) square shape
interesting note from extended use, this sensor reports luminance in almost real time. I have thus ended up using the luminance channel to control my day time lighting. When the sun is bright, it lowers the light, when the sun goes behind a cloud, the lights come up
*caveat
I run Hue binding in openHAB but also run Hue app on tablet and use Hue bridge. Happy to report Hue lights continue to work when internet connection is lost. Running Hue app on tablet (occasionally) allows bulbs, bridge and sensor to be update which happens fairly regularly.