Smart Motion Sensor, Wireless Hygrometer, Thermometer, Works with Apple HomeKit, Smart Home Automation, PIR Motion Detector-Thread ((iOS 17.4 and Above is Required)

If you use motion sensors to turn on lights, there are times where you want certain lights to not turn on at all. If you are a HomeKit user, the only way to make this happen is to use a Homebridge dummyswitch, which for nontechnical user is a lot to ask. The other option is to use another HomeKit accessory, like a light bulb, as a condition in your automation. While this works, you need to find an unused accessory or buy a new one to use as the on/off switch.Enter the new Onvis SMS2 motion sensor, which gives the user the ability to disable the motion sensor within their app, and in HomeKit. In the app, you can easily disable the motion sensor from the main page. In HomeKit, there is an “Active” flag that can be accessed in various 3rd party HomeKit apps. Further, since this flag is exposed to HomeKit, you can use it in HomeKit Scenes, Automations, and Shortcuts.Now, if you just don’t want the motion sensor to trigger accessories at all, you can create a Scene and then say: “Hey Siri, disable the bedroom sensor” and now that motion sensor will be completely disabled. If you want to disable the motion sensor based on an IOS focus mode, this is also now possible via a Shortcut. The great thing about this solution is the average user can now enable/disable the sensor without any need of additional technical knowledge like Homebridge, programming a Hue Bridge, etc. It just works.When the motion sensor is disabled, then those disabled accessories do not trigger even when you use scenes and automations if those accessories are a part of it. If you have other motion sensors, you can now include this new “Active” flag in their HomeKit automations to disable them as well. This is a problem that has plagued motion sensors since HomeKit gained support for them. We now have the ability to turn off the Onvis motion sensor as easily as turning off a light switch. So, if you have guests over, you can quickly disable all automations until they leave.The other interesting thing about this motion sensor is that the motion sensor timeout is also exposed to HomeKit. Therefore, if you need the motion sensor to have a different timeout depending on certain scenarios, you can do this now. For instance, during the day, the timeout in my bathroom motion sensor is set to 5 minutes. But late at night, it’s set to 1 minute. The motion sensitivity is also exposed to HomeKit. If you find the motion sensor is not triggering as you like, because of the ambient temperature, you can dynamically change the motion sensitivity to compensate.There is also a "Reminder" feature that tells you when the countdown timer gets to a percentage of the total countdown time. For instance, if the countdown timer is set to 10 minutes, you can set the reminder to 50% of that value. Then in the Onvis app, you can create a custom automation to dim the lights when that value is reached. This feature appears to allow the user to simulate the slow dimming feature of the Philips Hue lights when paired with their motion sensor.Lastly, the sensor also includes a temperature and humidity sensor. And finally, these sensors can b calibrated to match the values of other temperature and humidity sensors you may have in the same room. This is another feature that has always been missing from multi-sensor products.The only feature that is really missing from this product is a true light sensor, like Eve Motion and the Hue motion sensor has. Therefore, automations based on lux values are not possible. But with that said, I’m still giving it 5 stars because of the activation/deactivation feature of this motion sensor and being able to change the motion sensor timeout and sensitivity via HomeKit. The activation/deactivation feature alone is saves a lot of time and aggravation. So, even if you have another HomeKit motion sensor, I highly suggest buying this new Onvis motion sensor and use it in conjunction with what you have in order to be able disable automations more easily.

I’m very impressed with these monitor sensors I bought one of the black outdoor ones for my mailbox and it works wonderfully! It’s accurate very little false alarms. It’s especially great to detect automobiles coming into the driveway. It’s about 55 feet away from the nearest hub and doesn’t not have connectivity issues. I also bought the white ones to keep tabs around my exterior doors. They work just as good! I have them under a soffit or something covering it. I know it says for indoor but I’m giving a shot outdoors.I love how easy it is to connect to Apple home! It’s through Matter so setup was a breeze!

I had very high expectations for this motion sensor as it got rave reviews by a lot of people.I specifically bought this to use in my garage/shop so everything herein is based on my experiences in the garage.Let me stay the good things first. I was able to pair the sensor to my home kit network in under 10 seconds by scanning the QR code on the side of the box using the iPhone Home.app. Awesome. From there everything appeared to be working as designed. Awesome. The sensor was able to move from within my home, out the back door, 35 feet out, and into the garage. As far as I could tell The connectivity remained stable during transport. Awesome. I mounted the sensor on the garage door because I felt that would be a good test area for coverage.In testing motion-sensing, I found that I could be roughly 25 feet from the sensor and have it read motion and relay results immediately to the Home app. Accuracy and reporting motion seems to be on par with business-class sensors. There was virtually no delay relaying to my iPhone. For giggles, I decided to open the garage door while I stood still to see if it would trigger the motion-sensor, but it didn’t, which leads me to believe that it uses passive infrared (confirmed). I did not test response time outside my network or on cellular wireless connection.I found that the sensor dropped connection as I was setting up scenes or automations. I ruled out all I could during troubleshooting. Removing/ reinserting the battery brought it back online pretty quickly.In the second round of testing, I was able to customize an automation that when the sensor sensed motion in the garage it would trigger a lamp in my home-office to turn on. The automation would then reset after three-minutes. I was able to successfully test the automation for 15 minutes without an issue or delays using different test scenarios. That was exactly what I was looking for in this device. But here’s the issue...I have a 32 x 32 shop that is partially insulated. About 25-30 feet from home, Apple TV (hub) and where the sensor is located. I suspect that it is connected via Bluetooth to the AppleTV in the bedroom, but am wondering if sensor used my iPhone XR as the relay to Apple.com. Confusing.... I also live in a cold region in North America. The average temperature in the garage this week is about 42° F. I say all that because the following day the sensor disconnected sometime the night before. My suspicion is that either the sensor doesn’t like the cold temperatures in the garage or perhaps the range limitation/interference of Bluetooth. I could probably extend the Bluetooth range by adding another AppleTV, but that adds to the cost.I specifically bought it for the garage so I’m mostly disappointed. I likely won’t return it because I can find a use for it inside the home by a window, stairwell, cookie jar, doggy door, etc, What I really need is a WiFi capable motion-sensor. i was a bit excited to find this one though...I haven't been able to test inside the home so I can’t testify to that.I’ll come back and update my review as time allows.

Update: removed two stars. After updating firmware I had to totally remove from HomeKit, reset and reinstall. This caused me to have to redo my automations. Also HomeKit has started to list it as non responsive regularly. It’s 15’ from the border router so that’s not the issue. Seems like it doesn’t like cold weather.This sensor paired up with Apple HomeKit in minutes, via matter and thread.I have it set to use the temperature sensor to turn on and off heat trace on a water line in an unheated garage using a smart wall plug. I also utilize the motion sensor to turn on and off part of the lighting during scheduled hours for security.