Philips Hue Outdoor Motion Sensor for Smart Lights (Requires Hue Hub) Installation-Free, Smart Home, Smart Lighting, Exclusively for Philips Hue Smart Bulbs, Black (570985)

I'm just writing this to give people a heads up that yes these are to automate your outdoor hue lights and it dose an amazing job but you also want this unit if you want to automate your garage lights without getting stuck in n the dark waving your arms around like an idiot. I have a ton of Aqara sensors and I thought I'd go with that an I'd be fine but I learned the hard way that Aqara sensors are not as sensitive to wide and long spaces or Internally controlled the way these Philips motion sensors are. The Aqara style gets triggered fantastic at short to medium distance but it sets an internal mystery timer that you don't have access to which shuts off when ever it decides to shut off regardless of movement or not. It has what's called an interval timer that you see in the app and assume "Oh that's how long this thing will stay on when it senses motion!" But you'd be wrong. That trimmer is actually the time AFTER the (mystery) internal countdown decides to shut off before it will report back to your controller that the lights need to be turned on again. It makes it absolutely impossible to keep the lights on in a garage for anything more than a few minutes max even if your standing right in front of the thing! Thankfully not this one though and that's the reason it costs so much. These Philips units will literally pick up your neighbors in their driveway across the street, that's how sensitive it can be if you don't angle it right. But the biggest factor thst makes it so much better is the internal mystery timer that the others have is actually the "how long this thing is going to stay on for after the sensor is tripped" timer. AND the other (2) huge factors, you can control the internal "how long this thing stays on" timer, and it resets every single time it notices motion unlike the Aqaras. What that means is what you think it means, you make any kind of movement and this thing keeps resetting it's internal timer to what ever set it to and that number could be many hours of you want. So set it to like 5 minutes on medium sensitivity to start off and adjust from there. In a garage I'm finding it words perfectly at about a little higher than head level but I also incorporate automation conditions using door contact sensors so the lights also have to make sure every door is closed before it even thinks about taking orders from the motion sensor. The Aqara are actually best at just being quickly trigger when your walking by, not maintaining "some one is still present" for long durations. Want to know how to "correctly" automate the garage? Use an Aqara motion sensor just to trigger detection (not to control on & off) right in front of the door going to the garage. Place a contact sensor on the garage door itself with an automation to turn the garage on when no contact is detected as well as when the Philips is triggered. Then make another (off) automation with the conditions that the door must be closed (contact yes) the Aqara & Hue motion must be in the "ready" position That way it's not "when the door opens turn lights on and when the door closes turn them off" because that will never work for a garage. That would work for a pantry that you open and close that you don't care about remaining on by if you think you're going to master keep the garage (or bathroom lights too) you need to have multiple sensors set up right or it's going to drive you nuts after awhile from not working like you want it too. Also if you really want to get it perfect, add another one of these in the driveway to trigger every time you step outside the garage and add that just to the "lights off" automation under conditions that it must not be triggered too. Automation isn't cheap, I think I have about $170 in sensors and $50 for a switche just for the convenience of motion activated lights in the garage but when you finally get it right, it feels worth it. Good luck!

Funciona muy bien (tiene un buen rango de detección).

What I love: The sensitivity is easily adjustable. The battery life is very good (I did my first battery replacement at 8 or 9 months). The actions you can take in the Hue and Google apps are pretty reasonable (switch scenes or start an automation, then revert back after x minutes, only trigger during certain times of the day, etc.) And you can use the Hue REST API to access and log temperature data. What I don't love: There are no adjustments to tilt or pan the sensor, so you need to physically shim it until it is perfectly aimed, often requiring several unmounts and remounts. An adjustable mount would be a big improvement. It only comes in black. A white option would be nice.

Se instló y conectó muy fácil al sistema Hue. Detecta muy bien a los intrusos.

I purchased this for motion detection to automate Hue lights to turn brighter or on during certain hours, and it does exactly what I wanted. I have 2 porch lights that are on from dusk to 11:30pm. During that time, they are 30% bright. I wanted them to turn to 100% if motion was detected, and that automation is working perfectly. after 1 minute, the lights revert back to the previous state of 30%. From 11:30 to Dawn, the lights are off, and it will still turn them on to 100% with motion detected and revert to the previous state. The range is really good - too good. Cars in the street would trigger this and i could not get the software to reduce it. I ended up putting duct tape on the upper sensor area to prevent cars or objects too close from triggering. Now the range is correct and the sensitivity is excellent. Installation was easy and it was an overall great value for the money for my needs