I've ordered my Hubitat and now looking to start adding a few items, starting with a motion sensor. I want to add one to my front entryway but ideally only turn on the lights if it's dark enough. It seems there are some motion sensors that also have a lux sensor, but the vast majority don't.
But wouldn't this be somewhat common? We don't always want to turn on lights if it's not dark? I suppose I could do a basic condition of between sunrise and sunset, however the entryway is sort of tucked away and there are walls+stairs, and so it could depend a lot more on the ambient light of the day.
Is there a supported + recommended motion sensor that can do this? The only one I'm coming across is the Hue sensor, which is pricey.
I have seen the Hue one recommended a few times in the past especially for outdoor. I have two different Zooz multi sensors but they are not made for outdoors.
The Hue Outdoor Motion Sensor works very well. It is made for outdoors, it uses regular AA batteries and it reports motion, lux, and temperature. It pairs natively (Zigbee) with the Hubitat Hub.
But yeah I see the hue indoor is liked. And very expensive. But then the others have no true compatibility or drop off or don’t have light sensor too. Or I’m missing the hood options?!
I have a coolcam neo which is PIR and one of those Ali express mm radar ones... Both have lux measuring.
Both pretty good. The neo also does temperature.
The mmr is quite good for long term occupancy detection (eg did you come into a room and stay there) but the PIR will work fine for moving into a lobby.