I've just put in an order at Best Buy for one Philips Hue Motion Sensor, which is a new product. My plan is to use it in our infant daughter's room to make life easier when walking into the room for a diaper change with my hands full.
Has anyone else ordered these or have plans to in the future? What ideas do you have for incorporating them into your home? I'll update with my experience later.
UPDATE Oct 5 2015:
I received the sensor in the evening of October 3rd and got it setup last night on the 4th. Setups is very easy. Open the Hue app, pull a plastic tab out of the sensor to activate the battery and the app finds the sensor in about 10 seconds. You need to pick which room/s the sensor will control. The sensor comes with default settings, including time of day to consider day and night, default scenes for each (day/night), how long to wait before turning off the lights when no motion is detected, and sensitivity for both ambient light and motion.
I adjusted the time period for day/night to start the day earlier (5am) and end it earlier (10pm). I picked different scenes for day and night. I left defaults for the lights-off setting to after 1 minute of no movement, motion sensitivity on high and ambient light sensitivity.
I placed the sensor on a dresser pointed toward the door of our infant daughter's room and it worked as expected. Normal standing movements is enough to keep the lights on, and when the sensor thinks there's no movement it dims the lights before turning them off so you have the chance to make a larger movement to trigger the sensor if necessary. The cat triggered the motion sensor once early this morning; hopefully that doesn't happen too often or I might have to adjust the motion sensitivity settings or angle the sensor upwards to avoid triggering when he goes into the room.
Has anyone else ordered these or have plans to in the future? What ideas do you have for incorporating them into your home? I'll update with my experience later.
UPDATE Oct 5 2015:
I received the sensor in the evening of October 3rd and got it setup last night on the 4th. Setups is very easy. Open the Hue app, pull a plastic tab out of the sensor to activate the battery and the app finds the sensor in about 10 seconds. You need to pick which room/s the sensor will control. The sensor comes with default settings, including time of day to consider day and night, default scenes for each (day/night), how long to wait before turning off the lights when no motion is detected, and sensitivity for both ambient light and motion.
I adjusted the time period for day/night to start the day earlier (5am) and end it earlier (10pm). I picked different scenes for day and night. I left defaults for the lights-off setting to after 1 minute of no movement, motion sensitivity on high and ambient light sensitivity.
I placed the sensor on a dresser pointed toward the door of our infant daughter's room and it worked as expected. Normal standing movements is enough to keep the lights on, and when the sensor thinks there's no movement it dims the lights before turning them off so you have the chance to make a larger movement to trigger the sensor if necessary. The cat triggered the motion sensor once early this morning; hopefully that doesn't happen too often or I might have to adjust the motion sensitivity settings or angle the sensor upwards to avoid triggering when he goes into the room.
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