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.

I bought this motion sensor to use with SmartThings Hub 2. I would give 4.5 stars but that isn't possible and really once all the kinks are worked out, it really deserves a 5. This motion sensor has the advantages of small size and being able to sit it anywhere without mounting it anywhere if desired. A mounting bracket is included but the battery is not. It is not fully supported by SmartThings but will pair and give reduced reports if added as Multisensor 6 in SmartThings. You can get the full range of reporting (motion, temperature, humidity, luminosity, uv, tamper and battery) by adding the specific device in the IED (via Git Hub code) then pairing it and changing to the device type added. This sounds complicated but is really quite easy. I had no problems pairing, then changing to the new device type. The motion sensor immediately started reporting but appeared to stay on motion without registering no motion. However, after a week the motion reporting sorted itself out and it is now registering motion/no motion correctly. I really like the luminosity reporting which now allows me to control lights based on natural lighting coming into the room. This is especially useful for automating lighting on those stormy days when lights are needed indoors. The tamper feature is a nice addition too! Performance does come with a price though as the additional reporting results in higher battery use. I have had this motion sensor in operation since late October and the battery is already at 50%. This could be due to the first week of extra reporting though. I'm not sure. All in all this is a very nicely designed motion sensor that performs nicely. I will certainly be adding another one to my system.

This is probably one of the worst investment I've ever made. I've purchased 3 units, this 3 units shows different levels of humidity by 10%, different levels of light intensity by 20% (one is totally crazy), the motion detection even set to 5 (maximum) is by far less sensitive than the Generation 4 in 1, the UV measurement is for what? What about "vibration"? Oh my god, this guys are wonder mind. Pros: 1. Super small 2. Short range for motion detection (sometimes it's good) 3. Battery lifetime 4. Works as a repeater "if" you power it by USB only and add it when powered by USB Cons: 1. Short range for motion detection (You cant cover a 10ft room!!!!) 2. Incorrect readings for almost all parameters 3. You can't change the data from F to C and if you try to use a different firmware it will not work on your network 4. Useless UV measurement 5. Useless vibration measurement 6. Ghost parameters like "Binary and Status" 7. Bad manufacturing assembly which affect the lighting measurement (see pictures) 8. ULTRA SHORT RANGE 908.42 Mhz make you to purchase tons of repeaters and use all your outlets to power them 9. There is no way to turn off the data transfer LED. I should purchase Insteon!

Love it. Smaller than the previous generation (way smaller than I was expecting), works with SmartThings and is super easy to set up, and has more capabilities than the last generation sensor, but one thing I don't like about this sensor is that it doesn't take a common type of battery. I would have given this 4 stars because of the weird battery, but no one ever reads the four star comments o cares about them. The sensor is awesome enough to get 5 stars anyway, in spite of the battery problem. All of my other smart sensors use AAA batteries or something that is at least somewhat common like a CR2032, but this sensor takes CR123A batteries. Because of this, I think I still prefer the previous gen sensor made by the same company since I can use rechargeable AAA batteries on those. The additional features and size reduction provided by this sensor aren't enough to overcome the fact that I have to keep buying expensive and weird batteries that I can't use on any of my other devices besides this. Setup: Some people say they've had trouble setting it up, but I didn't have any problems at all once I found the secret. The back has to be on. If you look closely on the backing to the sensor, there's a little round depression. That depressions is directly over a piece of plastic inside that, when pressed, clicks a button that is in the corner and under the battery compartment. So, when the back is on and you either have batteries or the USB cable inserted, you push that depression and SmartThings will detect it and take you through the setup process for it.

Aeotec's recent devices seem to have a pattern of small issues that lead to a less useful device or frustrating install experience, and this, unfortunately, is no exception. For the most part, the design and functionality is great. This is by far the smallest Z-Wave motion sensor, temperature and humidity sensor, or light sensor that I've seen, and it does all of those things in one device. It's almost the perfect unobtrusive all-in-one sensor. Unfortunately, to start with, I ran into an error in the manual. It appears (based on the default value) that the description of parameters 101-103 is wrong. Specifically, I believe the UV sensor enabled bit should be 16, not 2. The directions for waking up the device also appear to be incorrect. I was unable to wakeup the device following the directions, and the light cycled through a couple different colors as I held the button, suggesting I was accessing some other functionality the manual didn't describe at all. (This was also the case for the previous Gen5 multi-sensor. The manual said "hold for 3 seconds" to wakeup when in fact you needed to press three times.) I had to resort to using USB power for configuration, which the manual did suggest, but which should also have been unnecessary. (I was also unable to add the node securely without the USB cable, which is strange.) Mounting also isn't fully thought out. The mount screws into the back of the sensor on one side and attaches to the wall on the other. It allows free rotation, but can only be tilted along one axis (see photo). Unfortunately, this axis is controlled by the sensor side of the mount, which must be screwed in all the way leaving no actual control over the angle. The mount should have been reversed so the axis along which the sensor can be tilted is controlled by the orientation of the wall / ceiling mount. Finally, the "action" button is accessible even while the sensor is mounted, so someone could theoretically exclude the sensor from the network (using a handheld controller) if they can approach without triggering it. For something that's supposed to act as a security device I don't know why the button needs to be externally accessible. It's not hard to just remove the back during configuration. As others have mentioned, controller support is incomplete. It seems to be mostly functional in HomeSeer, but configuration parameters aren't setup (I had to do everything manually) and it's not clear whether all the values are reporting properly. I wonder whether it would have been possible to give the controller makers more lead time to get implement support before this went on sale. This seems to be a general failing of Z-Wave. It's a little strange that almost nothing works as expected until support for the specific device is implemented in the controller, despite most things happening via standard command classes. Insteon may be a closed ecosystem with many fewer devices available, but at least everything seems to pretty much work together.

I am a huge purchaser of Smart Home products from Amazon. Having first purchased my SmartThings Hub back in the early Fall, 2017, to date I so far have over 140 devices connected to my SmartThings hub. Since there are thousands of devices/nodes that can make up a Smart Home with scores of new products introduced weekly into the marketplace, I rely heavily on Amazon's customer reviews as part of my research. Such is the case when I was looking for a solid Z-Wave, Multi-Sensor that would work well with my hub. Amazon's customer reviews led me to this gem, Aeon's Aeotec Multisensor 6, Aeotec Multisensor 6, Z-Wave Plus 6-in1 motion, temperature, humidity, light, UV, vibration sensor . With over 225 reviews combined with 125 answered questions I found the perfect solution that offered me the most flexibility to fulfill my requirements. I added the optional in-ceiling bracket so that this sensor is well concealed in plain sight, as it now blends in nicely with my drop ceiling. So much for research and aesthetics. I'm thrilled with Aeon's Multisensor 6. Not only does it measure most everything available in the market to measure, it achieves this with extreme accuracy, including a UV sensor. Within 5 mins my new Aeon's MS-6 installed seamlessly with my ST's Hub. All measurements (motion, humidity, temperature, light lux, UV, and vibration sensors) were synchronized and reporting within 10 minutes. Although this sensor offers the option to be powered via a USB power supply, I chose to take advantage of the 2-year expected battery life since I had no AC outlet in my ceiling (and it's designed for easy battery access). Now that I've installed and tested this product for about one month, I intend to buy several more of these Aeon sensors, as well as explore some of the other more cost effective options offered by Amazon using the "Compare with similar items" link nicely provided on most of your product offerings (thanks).

TL;DR: You don't need a 6-in-1 sensor. Just buy a motion sensor and you will be just as happy. If every "feature" is worth $10 of the retail price, I'm only getting $10 of value out of this thing and not by choice. Batteries NOT included. Don't let the price fool you into thinking this thing is a step above the competitors. What can I say, this thing is just okay. For the price, it's really not worth the time and effort. I would NOT buy another one. I've been using this for 2 months now. I consider myself fairly tech savy and anticipate issues and I find that part of the fun. This thing was simply frustrating. For starters, the thing was a pain to get setup. I'm running OpenHab with the Aeotec Z-wave stick (which works great btw) and the z-wave binding, so you can automatically expect at least some work to get this thing going. You can power it via micro usb or CR123A batteries, which aren't included (where are my $60 going?), and the device behaves differently based on how you power it during the pairing. For example, if you power via micro usb, it will act as a repeater and take more frequent readings. It does not do the same when pairing via battery for obvious reasons. I had to pair and unpair this thing so many times I only feel lucky that I was able to get it going. I don't remember which I ended up pairing as, but I left it alone as soon as I could get it working either way. Oh, and if you want to change any of the settings, like temp threshold, make sure you have Habmin, if using OpenHab. PaperUI always errors out. It seems to only pick up it's configuration reliably if it is powered via usb and is taking readings constantly. The one big setting I wanted to change was the timeout from 2 minutes to 5 minutes for the lights. This took a long time to get setup. Seems simple enough, but somehow they make it not so. Next we should talk about the so called features of this device. 6-in-1 they say, but in reality, only 3/6 of the functions actually work for me. Even then, I really only use the motion portion. Keep reading to see which of the others work. Motion: This has been the only great part. Once I got the pairing down (read the manual) and everything added into Openhab, I am able to reliably activate my hue bulbs when I walk into the room. It took some angle adjustment and rule tweaking to get that right, but it has been nearly flawless in it's function the past two months. I have it mounted to the ceiling and pointed toward the door slightly. I've only had it not activate for whatever reason 2 times and it quickly worked again after I flipped the light switch off and on. Having motion lights has been great. I'm so used to it that now when I go down to my basement, I accidentally walk past the light switch sometimes into the dark room because I expect the lights to come on. I'm researching other motion sensors for this room to add to my z-wave mesh. Humidity: Next to worthless readings. I have no idea if they are correct. At least it reports a number though. Temperature: Same as Humidity, but it seems to semi match the other temp gauge I have had in my room previous to this purchase. Nothing useful about this information for me currently. I suppose I could write a rule for my thermostat later on, but even the, I don't know that I would trust the readings. Luminance: Never has worked. It is at 0 lux 99% of the time. It just happens to be at 6 lux as I type this, which according to a chart I consulted, is pretty dark/pitch black. I have the curtains open in the room and the sun is shining in. Still 6 lux. I wouldn't write any rules around lux if I were you. Very unreliable. Alarm/Vibration: What? The reading is always 0. I guess this is the tamper setting? You are not going to stop the person trying to remove this from it's mounting. So what's the point? Not worth spending extra money on a sensor for this. UV: Again, always 0. It is inside, so maybe it is 0. So then why do I have a sensor with UV detection? Battery: It reads, but what good is a reading if it's forever 100%. I have been running it for 2 months on 2 batteries, so maybe it really is 100% still. This reading is purely for my own information. I guess I'll just wait until it stop turning the lights on and then swap the batteries. This was my first motion sensor and I learned a lot about OpenHab and Z-wave getting it configured. Still wouldn't buy it again, or recommend for a first time user. I look forward to trying out some sensors and switches from other brands that I've read to be good.