Yes, those can be real difficult. When I moved from Smartthings I still had half a dozen of those motion sensors and they were BY FAR, the most difficult devices to get to exclude.
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The only brick wall was the stupid gocontrol sensors.... I've had to do them a few times and they literally make me want to throw them out the back door into the woods as far as I can.
On the final one, when I got the light blinking to show it was in exclusion/inclusion mode, I screamed so loud my wife came running thinking we won the lottery or something. She's like "what?!" and I just said "I got it" with the sensor in my lap. She was so disappointed
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Lol. Love it.
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?? Which ones? Motion or contact?
The motion sensors are built for security vis-a-vis time of activation and not automation, so I stopped using them to trigger Hubitat automations like lighting.
On the other hand, the contact sensors are super useful. They have a set of external terminals that permit them to be used anywhere you need a dry-contact sensor. Here are some of the ways that I'm using them:
- Coupled with a 5V relay to detect power outage (and therefore do an automated shutdown of my Hubitats and other servers).
- Coupled with a current sensor switch to detect when my HVAC blower comes on and off (and therefore control the volume of Sonos speakers to compensate for the change in background noise).
- Coupled with a tilt switch to detect when my garage door is open or closed.
So treat those contact sensors like gold! They're very useful!
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Motion/Temp. These ones:
https://www.gocontrol.com/detail.php?productId=15
For years I used one to turn on lights in the middle of the night for people getting up to go to the bathroom (on Wink) and it worked fine. I don't use it for that use anymore but I do use two of them downstairs to turn off lights when motion stops since I have a teenager that LOVES to leave lights on everywhere she goes. I obviously haven't tested it much in the past day or two but it did turn off the lights that I forgot to turn off in the kitchen this morning for me.
I do still have another brand motion sensor that worked with ST but wasn't compatible with Wink so I need to find it and see if it will pair with Hubitat. I used to use that to turn on garage lights (with ST) when I changed and discovered that ST wasn't compatible with Chamberlain. I'm not as worried about someone breaking into the garage as turning the lights on. And I like the motion sensor vs door contact or integration with the garage door manufacturer because, for example, in the summer, sometimes I leave my garage doors open while I'm out walking or on a bike or doing yardwork and I like the lights to go on when I walk into the garage.
Off on a tangent here.... sorry
For me it would be worth it just to make sure they didn't get my money
