# What is the best motion sensors for Homey in 2024/2025? **URL:** \ **Category:** Devices\ **Created:** [November 11, 2024, 10:42pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/what-is-the-best-motion-sensors-for-homey-in-2024-2025/120332 "2024-11-11T22:42:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![leiet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f1d935/32.png) [@leiet](https://community.homey.app/u/leiet)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2024, 10:42pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/what-is-the-best-motion-sensors-for-homey-in-2024-2025/120332/1 "2024-11-11T22:42:36Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Kawa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/peter_kawa/32/173848_2.png) [@Peter\_Kawa](https://community.homey.app/u/Peter_Kawa)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2024, 11:28pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/what-is-the-best-motion-sensors-for-homey-in-2024-2025/120332/2 "2024-11-11T23:28:28Z")
You mean the motion sensor with the longest battery life? Which is not related to it’s performance functionality (false positives, missing motion). ---
**Author:** ![leiet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f1d935/32.png) [@leiet](https://community.homey.app/u/leiet)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2024, 8:25am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/what-is-the-best-motion-sensors-for-homey-in-2024-2025/120332/3 "2024-11-12T08:25:57Z")
Yes, that’s correct, but the pros and cons of the sensor are also of interest. ---
**Author:** ![Monit](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/monit/32/79472_2.png) [@Monit](https://community.homey.app/u/Monit)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2024, 9:30am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/what-is-the-best-motion-sensors-for-homey-in-2024-2025/120332/4 "2024-11-12T09:30:48Z")
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](https://homey.app/en-us/best-buy-guide/motion-sensors/) ---
**Author:** ![PeterHa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/94ad74/32.png) [@PeterHa](https://community.homey.app/u/PeterHa)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2024, 11:01am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/what-is-the-best-motion-sensors-for-homey-in-2024-2025/120332/5 "2024-11-12T11:01:27Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Draper](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/jonathan_draper/32/33978_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Draper](https://community.homey.app/u/Jonathan_Draper)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2024, 11:29am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/what-is-the-best-motion-sensors-for-homey-in-2024-2025/120332/6 "2024-11-12T11:29:34Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![leiet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f1d935/32.png) [@leiet](https://community.homey.app/u/leiet)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2024, 8:01pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/what-is-the-best-motion-sensors-for-homey-in-2024-2025/120332/7 "2024-11-13T20:01:58Z")
Thanks, I’ll try the Frient sensor, that seems to be a reasonably priced device 👍🏻 ---
**Author:** ![Tjar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/tjar/32/61177_2.png) [@Tjar](https://community.homey.app/u/Tjar)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2026, 5:56pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/what-is-the-best-motion-sensors-for-homey-in-2024-2025/120332/8 "2026-03-16T17:56:33Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Kawa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/peter_kawa/32/173848_2.png) [@Peter\_Kawa](https://community.homey.app/u/Peter_Kawa)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2026, 6:00pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/what-is-the-best-motion-sensors-for-homey-in-2024-2025/120332/9 "2026-03-16T18:00:43Z")
> [@Tjar](#): > > zigbee mmwave 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. ---
**Author:** ![Tjar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/tjar/32/61177_2.png) [@Tjar](https://community.homey.app/u/Tjar)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2026, 6:26pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/what-is-the-best-motion-sensors-for-homey-in-2024-2025/120332/10 "2026-03-16T18:26:04Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![smarthomesven](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/smarthomesven/32/79712_2.png) [@smarthomesven](https://community.homey.app/u/smarthomesven)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2026, 9:27pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/what-is-the-best-motion-sensors-for-homey-in-2024-2025/120332/11 "2026-03-16T21:27:35Z")
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.