Aeotec Multisensor 6, Z-Wave Plus 6-in1 Motion, Temperature, Humidity, Light, UV, Vibration Sensor (Sensor Only)

I have a fairly extensive home automation system and I wanted to replace my aging motion sensors with something a little more capable and modern. To me, the choice came down between the Aeotec and the Fibaro ZW-5, and I ultimately chose the Aeotec Multisensor 6.The sensor itself is much smaller than the baseball-sized units I have now, and that's mostly a good thing. The squarish shape and small size helps it mix in to my room decor a little better, and there are a lot of options for permanently mounting them or just placing them on a shelf or in some inconspicuous location.You have a choice of 2 CR123A batteries or USB power. The older sensors I have were powered by 4 AAA batteries, and to go as long as possible between battery changes, I typically used lithium cells...this gave me a year or two between battery changes, but these lithium batteries are expensive. Assuming the CR123A's last as long, I think that's probably a better and less expensive solution. The USB option is nice, but so far I haven't found a need for it - I just tend to use these things in places where I want to be able to put them wherever I want without any type of cabling.With Z-wave devices, a lot usually comes down to how well supported the device is by your home automation controller. I have two different systems: in my primary residence, I have an older Vera-3 unit, and in my vacation home I have a newer Homeseer controller. The Vera is Z-wave and the Homeseer has the latest Z-wave Plus hardware, and I'm happy to say that it was pretty trivial to connect these sensors to both systems. The Vera UI7 level has the Multisensor 6 support built-in, so it was just a matter of selecting it and pairing. The Homeseer was similar, but I needed to upgrade to the latest version first.Once paired with my home automation controllers, the sensors seemed to work perfectly, giving me motion alerts as well as temperature, humidity, light levels, UV and vibration sensors. The motion sensor is the one I care most about, and it seems to be roughly similar to the older sensors I had, working reliably from 15-20' at angles up to 150 degrees. In my setup, I have pretty good signal coverage everywhere in my home, so I don't know that I get any benefit from Z-wave Plus and its greater range. I haven't noticed any other performance differences between the Z-wave and the Z-wave Plus system, although I'm hoping the Z-wave Plus system will give me somewhat more time on a set of batteries.Bottom line is that I'm happy with these units and would definitely recommend them to anyone wanting a capable sensor in a small package at a fair price.

I bought this sensor not expecting much, having been burned by z-wave sensors in the past. Given all the negative reviews it made me even more cautious.This sensor is great. The motion sensor is the main reason I purchased it, and that has worked much better then previous sensors. It is accurate, and the sensitivity adjustment provides an actual useful adjustment range. I haven't had one of these lose communication, and they are very quick in registering movement. Some of the other sensors would have a delay when registering movement, drop off the controller, or run out of batteries quickly. This one has none of those problems. It has made my automation life much easier. I have tried 4 or 5 different motion sensors in the past, and this one far exceeds all of them.The form factor is much smaller than I was anticipating, it is quite small. It records temperature, luminescence well. They have been accurate for me, and it works fine with openzwave * (openhab, domotics, etc). I have had this sensor for about a month and havn't even noticed an impact to battery life at all, and I have pretty frequent reporting. I am using it with the newer aotec zwave usb receiver.The mount could be improved, and it would be nice if it was cheaper, however this sensor has been by far the best I have used. I am willing to pay a little bit more to have a consistently working and accurate product. I feel that some of the other reviewers who gave bad reviews based it on their choice of automation software, not on this sensors performance.Edit 11/18/2015: I noticed a few people complaining about time-out settings. You can change these really easily in the z-wave configuration for the device (depends on your software on how to do this). I have mine set very low. It reports no motion when motion has stopped for 60 seconds. I factor that into my scenes. I trigger lights that auto trigger off after 5-10 minutes of this sensor not reporting motion. So effectively 6-11 minutes. It works pretty flawless in this setup. I have 4 of these now, controlling 8 lights or so.I found that mounting them on the ceiling offers much better performance then putting them on the wall and facing a direction. I have all four of mine mounted on the ceiling.I still wish the mount was better on these, and the pairing button was a little easier to get to while mounted, but I still believe these are the best sensors I have owned.

Very good product, easy to install, stable and fiability

Good device, easy to connect, great to have option of battery or plug in power, very useful light , temperature and motion to triggers devices and events. Only downside is the cost. Should be around 50 dollars (cdn) instead of 80 dollars.

Sensor worked perfectly right out of the box with my Z-Stick and Indigo V7 software. I am using this sensor in the bathroom to activate and dim lights based on the time of night as well as activating exhaust fans when the humidity level hits the threshold.

Excellent product! Looking to replace my Wireless Tag with these sensors as they integrate with my Samsung Smartthings Hub. Love that they have the option of being USB power driven and battery.

When it works it's alright, but that's only about 50% of the time (probably less). This device has been a constant source of troubleshooting, problems, and headaches. There aren't many ZWave motion sensors available, but you'd do well to avoid this one.