Features:

  • The Philips Hue Smart Motion Sensor combines convenience and energy effeciency. Have your lights turn on when you walk into a room, and off when you leave. The Smart sensor detects optimum daylight levels to conserve energy during the day
  • During the night the Philips Hue Motion Sensor will switch to smart night light settings: a gentle, warm light setting to help you navigate during the night without disturbing your rest
  • The Philips Hue Motion Sensor can be placed freely for an optimal detection area, or mounted to a wall using screws (included). The device is battery powered, wireless and installation free (no re-wiring required) to control your lights without hassle
  • Place anywhere in your home including your hallway, bathroom, kitchen, and more. The integrated light sensor saves energy by detecting when rooms are vacant and automatically turning off lights
  • Installed in a minute. Simply follow the instructions in the Philips Hue app. Our smart lights default settings get you going, or personalize these settings to fit your needs
  • The Philips Hue motion sensor requires a Philips Hue bridge to make it part of your smart home lighting system. The Philips Hue system can control up to 50 smart lights
  • When you use the Philips Hue motion sensor with a Philips Hue bridge, you can use it to control any HomeKit compatible appliance
Philips is better than GE Wink

I keep buying these Philips motion sensors, especially after comparing them to the GE Wink garbage motion sensors. The GE version takes too long to respond compared to the Philips, and also the GE motion sensors's battery just dies without notification. I have many Philips motion sensors and Hue lights all over my house and I am so happy to have them in my family's home,

Easy to install

Installing the Motion Sensor took a couple of minutes, just open the app for your phone/tablet and follow the easy directions. The hardest part was finding the ideal place for it. I wanted mine for the bathroom. The sensor comes with a magnetic mount and mount that you can affix with an included wall screw. I used the magnet. Tip - mount it as high as you can, at least for a bathroom application. Preferably on the ceiling in the middle of the room. If it's not high enough, you'll soon discover a disconcerting feeling when the lights go out while showering. I stuck mine above the heating/cooling air vents which are right below the ceiling in my bathroom, see picture. I kept the default setting to turn off the lights after five minutes of no activity. Between 11 PM and 8 AM, the default setting is to dim the light(s) to a nightlight, but you can adjust the times or do away with it completely if you like. As I have three HUE bulbs in the bathroom, I created a new scene for the bathroom for a one bulb nightlight, the other two turned off. Three bulbs in a nightlight configuration were way too bright. I have the more expensive HUE color bulbs in other rooms. The color bulbs can be dimmed to just a faintest light. The Philips Hue White bulbs however don't dim completely or enough for my preference. That's a criticism of the bulb, not the sensor however. At least with the sensor when I awake in the middle of the night to use the bathroom, my eyes are not blinded with light of a thousand suns anymore. You can do away with your separate outlet nightlights, and keep the bathroom light switch in the always on position.

Works great, but not with every Hue light...

I got this to trigger the lights in my closet as I've usually got a handful of something as I'm walking in there. It works nicely now that I have the right lights paired with it. I've been a Hue fan since the beginning so some of my lights are the older "less of a spectrum" or just "white lights". They're all updated with the latest software but I found that they weren't always turning on even though the sensor was triggered. When you first set things up, it works. But after a certain period of time ( maybe 10 minutes ) the sensor would trigger but the lights stopped turning on. I deleted the lights entirely, deleted the sensor ( from the app ) and recreated everything and it worked again. But again, after a short time, even though the sensor would trigger, the lights stopped illuminating. I got some newer lights - the full spectrum colored - and updated those as well. Same problem occurred which left me stumped because those are the latest lights Philips offers. I let the problem sit for a few weeks and went back to it the other day... this time using yet another new set of colored full-spectrum bulbs. These came already updated. The software didn't indicate they needed an update at all and lo and behold, those bulbs do NOT have the problem. So... I don't think it was ever a sensor issue, but there may have been a software update that fixed the issue with the associated bulbs. Not sure. I'm just happy they're working now and the feature is awesome.

It's three devices in one! Highly Recommend

Purchased this to replace a dead eve motion detector. I got this because of brand recognition and lets face the fact it was $10 less than the eve. Here's my observations: *Faster than the eve, I guess this would be because the Hue hub is doing it all. *It's also a room temperature sensor in Homekit. I can now see the Garage temperature in the home app. *It's also a LUX sensor. 1. I can see in my home app if other lights had been left on. 2. It doesn't turn on lights if there is already sufficient light. * It's Much smaller than others. * The mount is magnetic. This came in handy in the garage. Zero installation, just stuck it to a metal rack. Yes as you can tell - I highly recommend the Hue motion sensor. Best $39 homekit accessory Ive found yet.

Wow this is a great wireless motion sensor!

I purchased this sensor to make my front porch light motion activated (the light is a hue bulb obviously). It works perfectly. Setup is super simple, and the sensor is very reliable. I love that it's battery powered so I don't need an outlet (although it would be cool if Hue did offer a combined bulb + motion sensor all in one unit). Random bonus feature: this thing also has a temperature sensor. You can't do much with it currently other than using a Hue Labs experimental feature to change your lights if it gets too cold or too hot. So for example, you can flash a light in your home if it is getting too cold outside. Anyway, this sensor is great. Now I just wish they would make it less expensive.

~My favorite way to control Hue bulbs - easier than talking to Alexa~

I LOVE these. I have four of them. We just bought a new condo and there are tons of lightswitches - four or five in a row on each switchplate. Too many to figure out at our age. We're senior citizen empty nesters and you can't teach an old dog new tricks. By old dog I mean hubby of course. He never remembers to turn off lights so this is perfect for us. He doesn't have to turn them on or off and I can stop complaining that he's left them on. One is mounted above our front door so that the lights in the foyer fixture and the lower stairwell fixture go on as we enter from either direction. Another is in the closet adjoining our master bedroom. The closet is a walk through between the master bedroom and master bath. Now hubby doesn't have to find the switch - which is sort of hidden behind my bathrobe - and remember to turn it off. A third controls the upper stairway fixture on the stairs to our loft level. The lower fixture is triggered by the foyer sensor as we walk toward the stairs. Prior to installing the Hue lights and sensor we had to try to figure out which of four different switches controlled the stair light fixtures at the top of the stairs and the four at the bottom. I still have no idea what the other three upstairs do - something to figure out when I have some extra time to experiment. I assume outlets. The last sensor is my favorite - it controls a Lightstrip Plus with 3 extensions on a high shelf like structure that runs above our kitchen. Before adding the Lightstrips and motion sensor we'd try to figure out which of five switches controlled the different lighting options in our kitchen area - the overhead recessed bulbs, the island pendants, the undercabinet lighting, the living room ceiling fan, and apparently one more that controls who knows what - as we were walking through. So we'd just skip the decision entirely most of the time and end up kicking the cat bowl across the room in the dark. Or kicking the poor kitty herself. Now the lights go on when we walk in from either direction - and that sensor I didn't even have to mount because its magnet sticks onto the metal corner bead on the kitchen wall and is positioned perfectly to catch us as we approach it.

Simple setup, works flawlessly

I love my Hue system and love it even more now that I added a couple motion sensors. We placed one in our kitchen to automatically turn our lights on and off and it works perfectly. It was easy to set up and works flawlessly. You can very easily set how long the lights stay on after there is no more motion, overnight hours where is turns the lights to a different setting (nightlight mode in my case), and you can set the amount of sunlight you find to be sufficient in the room for the motion sensor not to be triggered. If you use Apple home kit it also ads an unadvertised temperature reading to your room that you can link together with other smart devices.

Convenience I never knew I needed

Long story short, this thing is awesome. I originally bought it because I hated having to hunt around for the light switch in the dark - instead, now I just walk in, and the sensor will kick on our hue bulbs within a few seconds. Super cool tech. Unfortunately, this is the one downfall with the product. It’s a minor issue, but sometimes it’ll take a bit longer to kick in. I notice it more when it’s been idle and hasn’t sensed anything in a while - I’m assuming it’s just going into a battery saving mode. Other than that, it’s a great product. It has full HomeKit support, and can sense temperature in addition to motion. The options in the Hue app are awesome too - you can set it so if it doesn’t sense anyone for more than 15 minutes or so to turn off the lights. Very nice for those of us that always forget to turn the lights off (me included). Overall - great product. It’s a great complement to your house if you have a few hue bulbs set up. Highly recommended.

Most useful smart trigger ...

I have two of these. One lives on the wall in my garage, with two Hue bulbs coming on when I go in, and off again in ten minutes. This is perfect, as I was always leaving my garage lights on when I wasn't in there. The second, I get the most out of. It's in my open space - turning several bulbs on when I walk in. Little known, these things also collect temperature, and using a third party HomeKit app, I can trigger an iDevices switch, that happens to have my AC unit plugged in, when the temp goes over a set level - and off again when it drops. So - while I bought this for it's motion sensing services, I'm using it for much more in the end - very cool device!

It controls other devices as well!

You will constantly read from users that this sensor only works with hue lights and that is not true (kinda). I have this motion sensor in my garage that contains zero hue light bulbs but has a Lutron Caseta smart switch. I have a scene and a set of rules that turn the lights on when motion is detected, it is is dark and no other lights in the garage are on. I also have another motion sensor in my living room that controls on/off circle style battery operated lights; which I use for cabinet accent lighting;controlled via a harmony hub and homebridge. Now I have to say that I do have a hue bridge which may be the reason why I can use the motion detector in the first place. I have not tested the function of the sensor without the budge,but I wanted those who have this question to know that these senors can work for non hue lights “if you have a hue bridge”. My only complaint (on a different note) is the lights turn off when I am in the shower; and I must disable the sensor to get around it

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