What is the best motion detector now in 2024/2025?
Plejd has a WMS-01, will it work? It is tempting to test since it is supposed to have a lifespan of up to 10 years… I’m tired of my sensors from Fibaro and IKEA that either use special batteries or have poor battery life.
You mean the motion sensor with the longest battery life? Which is not related to it’s performance functionality (false positives, missing motion).
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Yes, that’s correct, but the pros and cons of the sensor are also of interest.
I like Frient motion sensors and I have several of them. Really reliable and they never seem to leave the Zigbee mesh and always react immediately.
Not sure about the battery life since I haven’t really made notes when I have changed batteries, but probably couple of years.
Note that there are two versions. One has more sensors built in.
Did you check out Motion Sensors | Best Buy Guide
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I use some motion sensors from HUE.
The big advantage is that normal AA batteries are used.
The battery life is several years, but I have also switched off or restricted the settings for LED notification, lux and temperature.
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I have several motion sensors in high traffic areas in the house (hallways etc) which to make my automations work the way I need them are set to short motion timeouts and high frequency of updates, which of course drains batteries fast. For these I use Z Wave sensors from Aeotec (such as the multi sensor 6 / 7) because they have the option to permanently power them using a USB power supply. You then have the challenge of running a USB cable to them from somewhere with either a plug socket for a USB plug or permanent live and neutral where you can use a USB power module cheaply available from Amazon or wherever which you can wire in directly.
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Thanks, I’ll try the Frient sensor, that seems to be a reasonably priced device 
