What is the best motion sensors for Homey in 2024/2025?

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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.

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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.

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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 Smart 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 :+1:t2:

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so i’ve been searching for and trying different sensors. The best I have are the mmWave 230V powered devices from aliexpress using zigbee. They trigger fast and really report occupation.

the drawback is that everytime I order a new batch then the have new/different product IDs and are not recognized by Homey apps

I tried the neo coolcam, two of them, on zwave but they last approx 6 months on their battery.

I have different ubiquiti cameras, most of them outside, and use them as motion sensor. This works really goodeveb with the smart motion triggers especially for people and vehicle detections.

I now have the ubiquiti USL motion, but thats really garbage compared to the mmWave. You also need an additional IoT gateway (868mhz). Detection is really slow and its not a present detection. Its only usable for real zone teaffic detections.

so I swear by zigbee mmwave, i’m now buying the mmwave sensors (wifi versions) and try to replace the tuya controller by a ESP32.

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No judgement, but a little note on your recommendation:
Because mmWave sensors continuously send very much events, it’s possible it can choke someone’s zigbee mesh, causing unreliable and/or delayed commands.

I would recommend wifi based mmWave sensors because of that.

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hi peter,

thank you for your comment. I have no other zigbee devices so really cant tell. But I totally agree with you.

I prefer to have everything on ethernet, wireless or wired.

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You can also use a few Tuya ZigBee bridges to add the sensors to different Zigbee networks, this saves some bandwidth for your Homey ZigBee network.