Philips Hue Outdoor Motion Sensor + Dimmer Switch Bundle

These are great and work well in my Hue Lighting plan
I like these motion detectors a lot. They actually have three detectors built into them. They can sense and report the temperature, the amount of light and any motion. Thee motion detection and light sensitivity are adjustable using the Philip Hue App or Apple Home app. Basically, after selection the installation site, you can use the app to install the device and then adjust its sensitivity to light and motion. You adjust the unit such that it senses how much light there is and it will then either react to motion under those light conditions or not depending on the settings you pick.The motion detection is also adjustable. On my units I have found that they can be very sensitive. In fact too sensitive. I have had to dial mine back a bit to avoid detecting flying bugs and the like. These do have a battery, but so far I have had mine up and running for over a year and they are still going strong. Either way battery life is one of the items the units report back to the app so you will have advanced notice when they neeed to be replaced.One more great thing. These can bee used to trigger lights anywhere in you Hue installation. You configure what lights to control in the app and it will do it. There are different setting for time of day, Night, Daylight and lots of other controls.

The hardware is solid, but parts of software needs some work
I received the Hue Outdoor motion sensor and spent the day trying to make it work with little succeess. Connecting the outdoor sensor to the Hue app is easy and painless, but that’s where the ease of use ends. First, I noticed the light sensor is stuck at 1 lux no matter what light enviroment it’s in. Searching online, this appears to be a known issue and one solution was to remove it from the Hue app, reset it, and add it back to the Hue app. This method didn’t work for me. There is a software update coming out that is suppose to fix it, so I will wait and see if it really fixes this problem.The sensitivity option is also problematic. The Hue indoor motion sensor has a High, Medium, and Low setting for the sensitivity. The Hue outdoor motion sensor has a slider instead, which gives you finer control over the sensitivity option. The issue is, no matter how low you set this option, the sensor appears to be still too sensitive. Everytime a car drives past my house, the sensor goes off. Again, even if the sensitivty option is at the lowest setting, it still triggers. The sensitivity option is the only option available to the user to reduce unwanted notifications. But it doesn’t work. So, depending on far the sidewalk is outside your house, this device is going to notify you of people walking by, as well as cars driving by.Update 03-14-19The firmware update fixed the light sensitivity issue. So, now the light sensor reports the right values. However, the sensitivity problem remains in that it picks up people walking on the sidewalk and cars moving on the street at the lowest setting. But on the whole, the product works much better with the firmware update now.Update 3-19-2019During the day, I get a lot of false possitives from the motion sensor when it’s sunny outside. The sensor detects shadows, caused by th sun moving across it’s view, and thinks it’s human movement. Thereby tiggering the motion sensor. Again, the sensitivity setting isn’t very useful here as well. Lowering the sensitivy doesn’t help. You will just have to play with different placement to minimize these false positives. However, the temperature sensor seems accurate though.

Has never failed
We’ve had one of thesr installed for four years and it has never…repeat…never failed. In fact, in our case, it overperforms a little! Sensor spots deer in the back yard 40+ feet away with ease. Anyone in the back yard gets lit up immediately. Great accessory for Hue owners. I think Hue is discontinuing this, so get one while you can.

Este sensor de movimiento para la intemperie esta hecho de materiales resistentes y tiene un rango muy amplio de detección. Yo puse el mío en el balcón de mi casa y enciende las luces exteriores cada vez que detecta una persona o vehículo a gran distancia y lo tengo programado para que después de unos minutos de nuevo baje la intensidad del brillo de las luces cuando no detecta movimiento. También mide la temperatura exterior lo puedes consultar desde HomeKit ó el App de Hue.

Cuando lo instalé bajo Smartthings hub…pierde funcionalidad de ajuste de sensitividad a movimiento