“Good sensor, very visual with the multi colour eye on motion and tamper. Very useful for at a glance when determing if its just hot/cold or is it just you.... as at defined temps it will glow blue, green or red to signify too cold, perfect or too hot. Nice in the middle of the night. Good batter life, about months to a year on the ones i have (I cant remember mine are gen 5 or not, prob not). Only complaint is that they can not be wired to usb switch and lack of humidity sensor, other than that, great sensor. Working on Indigo as the controller and Z-Stick Gen5.”
“I have three of these sensors and ther are fantastic, I love the eyeball design, they are very customisable with lots of options. I am using these as part of my home automation system with smartthings, home-assistant and Raspberry Pi3. The only down side is that they don’t measure humidity (are you listening Fibaro?), but I plan to get some more for other areas of the house. Recommend.”
“I have 3 of these and they have been very reliable and the triggering distance is better than others on the market. I had no issues pairing and configuring these in Home Assistant running on a Raspberry Pi3. Would definitely recommend these. I use them to trigger lights and also for Alarm Motion Sensing.”
“This does exactly what it is supposed to do. It is very easy to install and remove. In the HC2/HCL it installs three icons - movement, temperature and lux. It is about 3cm diameter; it is a very nicely designed piece of kit; and is quite discreet when attached to the ceiling.”
“This is my first gen5 fibaro, joining three earlier versions. I use them with Domoticz running on a raspberry pi. Absolutely no problems...they just join and work! I'm using this in a garden building, probably about 7-8 metres from the controller.
I will be interested to see if battery life is longer with this generation, I get around 10months to a year out of the earlier mods.
Recommended.”
“I bought these for the adjustable sensitivity (cats) to work with a smartthings hub. I had a few hiccups with the smartthings hub seeing the sensor as a window sensor. To resolve this I had to manually change the device handler in the developers options. To adjust the sensor, if you're using a smartthings hub you'll need to use a custom device handler. They now work a treat picking up human movement but not the cat.”
