Motion Sensors Tested and Reviewed! Worst and Best Zigbee PIR

Testing a handful of Smart Home Zigbee Motion PIR Sensors for automating your home. All the sensors are tested in realtime together so you can find the best and worst one of the bunch. More below....

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00:00 Intro
00:51 The Nope
01:42 The How
03:03 Phillips Hue 929001260762
04:43 ThirdReality 3RMS16BZ
05:54 Linkind ZS1100400-IN-V1A02
07:19 AGSHome Tuya RH3040
08:17 iTead Sonoff SNZB-03
09:15 Iris IL07 V3
10:22 Aqara/Xiaomi RTCGQ11LM
11:12 Wyze Motion Sensor V2
12:34 Testing
14:40 Cooldown and Specs
15:55 Sonoff Sensor Issue
16:53 Closing Thoughts
18:15 The BEST Part!

[jimbrewer]

Great video! Really appreciate the thoroughness by covering the cool off period since it is such a factor in assessing one's use case. 😀

[zzafarr]

Such a great video comparison, exactly what I was looking for !!!
Informative, precise, no stupid music/animations .... focus is purely on what many people are interested in.
And I do not care if the video production is not the top notch, I am looking for the information, not video production.
Thanks again for such a great informative video review.

[calebjpryor]

This looked to be one of your funner videos to do with your son. Just awesome. I think your next video should be about proper placement of motion sensors. I was ready to throw away some of my motion sensors just because I implemented them wrong. I've learned not to put them on the ceiling pointing down and always have an adjustable bracket to dial things in. Also not to point them at a heat vent. They trigger when the heater would come on

[bryanwarman]

I'd love to see you mod the Aqara and do some more testing with it.

[d_sellers]

Great video. Subscribed. I really liked the demonstrations with the sensor detection overlayed. That was very helpful.
I have one Philips Hue sensor and a couple of the Sonoff sensors. I noticed some weird stuff with the Sonoff but wasn't sure what was going on. Your video pointed me in the right direction so I know what to look for in the future. The Philips Hue is great, but, like you mentioned, the price... Mixing and matching depending on needs is a good recommendation. I'd suggest the Hue in "more important" areas and something cheaper in areas such as a garage or laundry room. Also, knowing the cool-down times will help when making automations such as turning lights off after motion has stopped.

[denvansanten]

I have 8 aqaras with the hardware mod done. It goes to clear after 5 sec and battery life is still very good. Almost 2 years now.

[jefflambert]

I think I have 20 Phillips Hue. By 20 times and cry 20 times. 23 I guess. They work well and I can’t imagine how many times they have saved me flipping a switch. Using them with Zigbee2MQTT. Awesome combination.

[marcusone]

I never trust motion sensors for "Clear", and in my automations set them to run if "Cear" for X minutes, usually 2-5 to be safe before turning lights off automatically.

[desparky]

I bought the Phillips Hue when they were on sale at Bunnings here in Australia. They work great both inside and outside (under the veranda). I mounted them high in the corners of rooms and stuck a small piece of plastic card below the lens to stop my cat triggering them.
Great video by you and your little helpers (including the 4 legged one). Keem up the good work guys.

[Tommyownzz]

I am using cheap 443mhz sensors by DIGO bought from aliexpress. Detection is instant and cooldown is about 3 seconds. They are great.

[doubleu]

Thank you ! Good job !! I will go with the Philips.

[adamrobinson]

Cheers for that, really useful, didn't realise how good the hue indoors was. I've never really compared them. I mainly use the hue + aquara ones, the hue outdoor is awesome too. I use it indoors in the office and garage because I find it the best, battery, connection (hue use good radios), range etc. obv use it outdoors too. Aquara is awesome because you used to be able to get them for less than 5 quid a pop (around 5-6 dollars) so i've scattered them round the house and slowly replaced them with hue where I felt needed. They don't seem to like connecting to other routers that they weren't paired with though which is a big reason for swapping some to hue but the ones round the hub (phoscon/deconz) in the core of the house I have kept, depending on the model so ymmv. Cool off period on the aquara ones are a pain, I did hack some and lost one one the way due to my dodgy soldering, most of my light automations are over 2 mins tbh so it's not a massive issue but they can work, with phoscon you need to do an api call to set the cooldown below the default as every time it restarts it resets to default.

[ygreq]

I just don't get why they don't let you set the cool down period.

[Al-gxys]

The cool down time for the Aqara one can be lowered to 1 second through Zigbee2MQTT if needed. 90 sec is just the default value.

[JordanReese]

I got a bunch of the wyse sensors, and was really frustrated when they started dying... So the timing of this video is great for me!

[lindsayreid]

I agree the Philips Cue is ex[pensive but it really is the best and most versatile with the the "cooldown" adjustable from just a second to hours via Zigbee/MQTT, the sensitivity is also adjustable (low, medium, high), it also does lux and temperature and the led can be enabled/disabled. I fought with other sensors and did what you suggest - use the Hue (I also use the outdoor Hue) and use cheaper ones where I don't need the additional features. IKEA do quite a good Zigbee motion sensor called the "TrRadfri" - It has time and sensitivy adjustment on little knobs hidden in the back but the "cooldown" is fixed. Hope this helps. Another great video - many thanks.

[circuitdotlt]

I tried using the Aqara sensor (non-LM one, without lux sensor). The cooldown is 70 seconds exactly, which is very long.
The problem with it was that it was not checking for motion while triggered, and any motion within that window will not extend the cooldown. So if your motion took 69 seconds, then stopper for a couple of seconds and resumed, it will stop detecting motion immediately, and start again. Which is really bad if you are controlling your lights off of that.
A hardware mod makes it check for motion even during the cooldown, extending it with every motion. So the cooldown will be 70 seconds after your motion stops. I have actually used a rule that checks if door was open 70 seconds ago and if it was possible to leave the room when motion actually stopped.
One more problem that I discovered is that it still does not check the motion continuously. Looks like it checks it every 5 seconds or so, so if you entered the room, closed the door and, for example sit down to do your thing, it will like not detect those few seconds it took you to sit down. A real shame really, as the sensor is great otherwise.

[oldnewsglory]

Nicely done - but your kiddo stole the show LOL I find that AGSHome one is hyper responsive when mounted on a ceiling (8'). I just use an Echo 4th Gen for a hub and it never has issues with connectivity.

[Skhulile]

The Sonoff issue is an annoying one that I noticed after getting mine too to control lights, however I found that if you flash the Sonoff Zigbee Bridge with Tasmota and use the default Zigbee2Tasmota, the mqtt does send a Occupancy=1 tag when motion is detected, but also sends a ZoneStatusChange=1 tag. If there is still motion after around a minute another mqtt message would come with Occupancy=0 (As you've shown in the video) but the ZoneStatusChange would stay as =1, if there isn't motion anymore then it would also become =0, so I've now just created an Mqtt sensor in Home Assistant that uses the ZoneStatusChange tag instead of the Occupancy tag and now it is working very well as a motion sensor to automate my lights!

[cobaltsnet]

Try homeseer mini sensor, mag base, i have one in laundry room, one in the bedroom closet, on time set in homeseer, work good