I take it that given you use 12 of them, you would recommend them? I'm particularly looking for a lux/luminescence sensor, but they are few and far between in Australia...
I don't understand Oz and the near absence of ZWave there. But yes, I think they are quite usable. I have the motion "recycle" set to 30 seconds, which is not entirely benign to battery life but I get a couple months or longer. Reporting time on battery is pretty lengthy, intentionally, so if you are needing "human time" reports, you'll have to wire them to USB. And the Multisensors do offer that option. The 2 Dome's I have don't, but they do offer lux too.
I didn't buy all 12 at once and as a result I see the variation in manufacturing over a couple of years. The newer ones are better, no surprise.
Personally I like the Dome motions for lux. I have 6 multisensor 6's (one USB powered), and two domes. One of the dome motions is looking out a window for exterior lux, and has been working very reliably for around 6 months now. It triggers my interior lighting every day when it starts to get dark.
Oz + Zwave = expensive !
Think close to $100 per multi-sensor 6, when not on sale.
Mainly I think it's due to the small market size down here and the unique frequency band used.
I updated the Driver to v1.6 by removing 'isStateChange = true' everywhere. It's another very minor change intended to reduce the 'footprint' of this driver. This should cut down on the number of event entries where no change actually occurred. Reduce the load on the hub sounds reasonable to me.
[dev:740](http://192.168.1.81/logs#dev740)2019-01-28 12:06:47.286 pm [warn](http://192.168.1.81/device/edit/740)power source is not identified, check it sensor is powered by USB, if so > configure()
I hit configure but its still there. 5 of my 6 are USB powered and that last one will eventaily also be powered by USB.
which seems low to me as obviously the lux isnt 10 so they must use a very low values for it, but the option for automatic value change then needs to be set at like 1 for it to do anything. our work PIRs used 1-999 which is 600 is about 600 lux depending on the relux values.
Thanks for your efforts on this driver. I just installed it since the stock driver has long motion timeouts. This said I noticed your driver has duplicate active and inactive events. Are you experiencing this too?
It's worth a try to change to the built in driver but NOT click configure. What this does is use my driver to set the parameters, then let the built in driver handle the device interaction. By not clicking Configure, the parameters won't get overwritten.
I swapped one of mine, it works but the reaction time seems slowed. That would make some kinda sense.. if the workaround for the false events is to ignore any that come within 350ms or so.
Edit: no, I spoke too soon, still getting double events with the built in driver "Aeon Multisensor6"
I thought I'd chime in here. I pulled the driver today and put it on my hub. I was looking for a better sample rate and totally thankful someone did it. Let me know if there's anything I can check into since it's really just my thing at home...