“I bought this due to the improved battery life that is supposed to come with z-wave plus devices (2 years) - however the reality is that it has only lasted under 3 months. And it is not in a high-footfall area to trigger it all the time !!
These are a well made and ideal as a 3 in 1 sensor but woaah - the battery life is terrible !! I will need reassurances from Fibaro before buying anymore..”
“All information is provided in HS3 except battery status reporting. And this is subject to the firmware. The newer versions work fine. Very easy to setup.”
“Added straight away to my v2 Hub and has an officially supported device type.
Not totally convinced on the wireless range, but I can't honestly mark it down as the garden room it occupies has two layers of celotex insulation and thus 4 layers of foil to try and get through. Once I had installed the Fibaro Dimmer 2 in there (which has a better position for the signal and can act as a repeater), the motion sensor then came to life and started working correctly.
The sensor itself is nicely designed and the mount makes it very easy to pop in/out as required and position where you want it. The marketing pictures are slightly deceptive as it certainly doesn't look like an iris on the front, although that's actually a positive in my mind as having a dis-embodied eye staring at you from the corner of the ceiling would be slightly disconcerting.
Everything seems to work perfectly thus far, and I'm enjoying having a luminance sensor to make my lighting more autonomous and appropriate to the conditions.
I intend to buy more as I expand my smart home's reach, very happy customer.”
“The unit is small and looks good and worked out of the box with my Vera Plus once paired (which came with a newer firmware than the one available on their site). One major drawback is the range. The documentation is claiming 7meters but it is more like 7feet. Our old ADT sensor detects even minor movements across our 5m bedroom whereas this one only registers if I move quite close to it like 6-7 feet. I am using it in the much smaller landing area now and it seems to work most of the time. I say most because I am not always sure if it's Vera's or the sensors fault when the scene doesn't trigger. My search continues for the best Zwave plus motion/multi sensor that can beat the existing ADT sensors.”
“You have to contact there support for them to input the device IDs to your local Vera for now, but once it's done this device works perfectly. Search the MicasaVerde forums and you'll see i got it working.”
“The original sensor bought 2 months ago worked without a hitch, bat the latest one won't work with VeraPlus. Had to go through the help people for them to set it up. Then the whole Vera network crashed and now nothing works”
“This is the second one of these that I have bought. I still need to get vera support to manually add the right firmwear but once that's done ( and they usually get back within 24 hrs) it works well. We have changed the colour on this one to white and it gives just enough of a glow to find the door/stairs at night without the need for another light to come on.”
