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.

Aveces no funciona y no detecta nada, pero en general funciona bien.

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 high hopes for the Onvis smart motion detector but it turned out to be a very frustrating piece of garbage.I needed a smart motion detector for my garage, one that would turn on the lights when someone walked through the door.Setup was pretty straight forward, install the batteries then use the Home app to scan the code and set it up on my network. After it was setup I created an automation script which when motion was detected would turn on my two overhead garage lights and one work bench light. All three of these lights are being controlled by Koogeek smart outlets. And it worked, the first time. As soon as it detected motion all three lights came on and ran for the 20 minutes I had programmed in the automation.Later that evening I went back out to the garage, opened up the door and walked in, no lights! Checking on my iPhone, Onvis said “not responding”. I reinstalled the batteries but it still said not responding so I reset it and reinstalled it in the Home app. Again, everything worked fine until it sat for a bit then it would drop off the network and would become unresponsive. I have a mesh network in my garage so it was getting a good strong network signal. The next day I downloaded the Onvis app to see if it had a newer firmware that I could download and install, it did. But even after the firmware was updated it would continuously drop off the network. After several days of battling with it I decided to send it back and purchased another motion sensor, this one a Philips Hue. The Philips has been working non stop for several months now.

I have 4 of these. One purchased in May 2023 and it's been great cost effective sensors.I love the direct integration with Apple Home (with supported Apple Hub device). This particular version/item was cheaper and had statements which referenced requiring Onvis Thread Bridge/Gateway (which I don't have), so wasn't sure if it would work.The item description/formatting should have -or- inbetween all the options. I'm writing this post to let others know that this particular listing works with Apple Homekit w/o the need for their bridge/gateway.

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.