The First THREAD Motion Sensor!! The NEW Eve Motion & Light Sensor!

I just bought this and doesn’t connect. I’ve factory reset it over twenty times. Anyone else having this problem with HomePod mini? I’m blown away how easily this connected for you.

I just picked one of these up. I'm looking for your video on how too set the sensor up for no motion. If there is no motion for a certain amount of time I would receive a notification. I'm sure I watched a video of yours regarding this. Thanks

Big shame it doesn’t have a recharge port under the battery cover.

Great detailed video👍🏼.
Am I able to set it up so that when it detects motion my lights can come on?

Am I the only one who finds this sensor tends to stop working? Occasionally it will be “unreachable,” despite being in the same place.

You almost sold me until you said it was battery powered_ I'm looking for something that can be installed using house voltage.
Therefore it is always powered.

Question, I’m wanting to use this sensor in our mailbox to trigger an alert when the mail arrives. Our box is about 100 feet from our HomePod. You think that might work?

All right so it works with THREAD but does it also work with Zigbee for now while I mainly have everything Zigbee based?

Hi Shane. It has been 6 months since the video, can you provide us an update on the battery life of the motion sensor?

Any update on battery life after 6 months of use? Does it give you a low battery warning?

Mine quit after 2 months. It was used inside a bedroom only. Eve is replacing it without any issue but I am a little disappointed on the reliability of this overpriced motion sensor.

What about a test with the new eve on just bluetooth compared to the old one? Was there any difference?

Are these still the best motion sensor? Any others?

I was trying find out if after the sensor detects movement - and no longer detects movement - can turn off the light?

Great sensor!
Hope the Eve sensor will be compatible with the Aqara M2 hub as well if Aqara updates the hub with Matter,
or Google Nest Hub 2.
Otherwise i'm going to have to buy an home pod mini for my parents house to connect this sensor.

Shane, it has been 3 months. How are the batteries holding up?

I'm going to change all my aqara sensors Pq 1 with this, because the light sensor aqara is a fake sensor, it works only during a motion detection. this is simply ridiculous. the only temporary ( I hope ) issue is that EVE works only via bluetooth and not via Thread after a couple of weeks

Is there anybody that sells just a siren or an alarm that would work with an eve motion sensor. or do you know of anybody that sells a sensor an alarm together that’s the only thing I want or need not a lot of other peripheral‘s

Is there a way I can stop my EVE MOTION sensor from detecting motion when another smart home device is triggered apart from
Using time of day.
OR if there’s any form of shortcuts I can use to trigger that. I need help

I wish Eve would put some work in their app, it’s a mess

Another great video, thanks Shane. I have a dog, is there a way to manage sensitivity for placement outside and exclude my dog from detection?

First comment after discovering your channel yesterday and binging about 20 of your videos. You always deliver! I'm curious what you expect the battery life to be on the Thread Motion Sensor?

I've been using these for weeks and they have been good. But this week my Internet provider replaced my network modem/wifi device, and this has caused problems. Firstly, in order to reset the Eve Motion (Thread version) you need a special tool that I don't have at home. And then after I reset it, and re-added it to the Home app, there were duplicate copies of my sensors in each room. And then, the automatons had to be deleted and recreated. And even after all this, the new automations are not working, and I'm still trying to figure out why. I'm sure I'll figure it all out eventually, but why should any product be this complex to reload? There's no mention in the manual of the reset switch, there's no label on the reset switch, and there's no tool in the box to use to press the reset switch. The product designers probably never considered an average person having to fix problems with this device.

In the eve app I can see child devices with transport mode thread, but I can’t see the router they are connected to. Also my Apple TV 4K gen 2 isn’t listed as a router in the eve home app. Is there a way to refresh the thread network view in the eve app?

So when motion is detected can you set a alarm on you phone and computer ?

Got one of these and so far working great. Sets up so so easy with thread. Anyone have any thoughts on what to do with the light sensor and how to use it?

Awesome video per usual Shane. I love my Hue Outdoor sensors because of their great wireless range. Any idea what the thread wireless range performance is of these, advertised and/or real world?

Anything that needs batteries is not progress.

This is great. Finally! Definitely gonna pick up a few of these.

Is thread need ipv6?

Thank you for including temp in C, can’t tell you how annoying it is when peeps don’t do this!!
Great videos as always.

Good thank you 🙏🏼

Nice video Shane. But if you have security system which is based on Aqara products how can you integrate a thread eve motion sensor to that?

Shane, this was a fantastic video. I love your head-to-head comparison vs. other motion sensors using different transmission protocols (e.g., Zigbee and BlueTooth). Your use of slow motion video playback made it crystal clear that Thread and Zigbee are nearly indistinguishable from one another regarding transmission speed. Given the mesh (or mesh-like) operability for Thread (giving us self healing performance when part of the Thread network has gone offline for one reason or another), opting for this Thread device over a ZigBee motion detector is an easy choice. Knowing that bother ZigBee devices also require a hub from their respective manufacturer whereas the this Eve Thread motion sensor does not, makes this a great purchase for those with a smaller SmartHome who do not yet have other devices from Aqara and/or Phillips.

Finally, I am an Aqara user and their motion sensors work great. One plus on the Aqara sensor is the simplicity of adding the sensor virtually anywhere with their reusable sticky pad. What are the mounting options for the Eve sensor? As always, thanks for the great video Shane.

Thanks so much for that performance comparison!

Great review Shane. Have you done any videos related to outdoor use of motion sensors? If not be a good one to consider if possible. Thanks 🙏🏼

Seems to be sold out everywhere. None at Amazon, Apple ETA is not until September, B&H says not in stock as well.

Can the setting used to determine how long the sensor detects motion be used to automatically turn off lights? I’ve tried using Philips Hue motion sensor but lights would turn off within seconds when I was looking for a way to turn them off after 15 minutes. I could do it within the Philips app, but I couldn’t find a way to do it with Home app. I prefer to have hub-less IoT devices so I’d be interested in getting one of these new Eve sensors to put in various hallways where the lights tend to never get turned off.

Thanks Shane. Ordered mine already, it will arrive on Tuesday)

Hey Shane love the videos! I’m currently building out a HomeKit setup in my new home and I’m wondering if there is a camera that I can add to my HomeKit preferably secure video that 2 android users in my house could also view say on the camera manufacturers app if that’s possible. Do you have a video of one you could point me to? Thanks!

Hi, Shane thanks for the review 🤩 and I like your shirt so I think you need to start selling merchandise for the fans 😁

Awesome. Is it better than the Philips Hue indoor motion sensor? That one has motion, light level, and temperature.

Thanks Shane. Ordered one yesterday, from the Apple Store. Looking forward to incorporating it, into our smart home.

Great review ! Do you have access to the light sensor within the home app or is it only accessible through Eve’s app ? Thanks

Shane, not a knock on you, it's another good video. I just don't understand the industry's obsession with thread and matter. We already have a universal standard with zigby. As you showed both thread and zigbee have the same speed. The echo and smartthings hub already have a zigbee radio in them. Apple and google could just add one to their devices. Sadly, I think that most people will just continue to purchase wifi devices since that is where the market is currently focused. After experiencing Sylvania and smart dry terminating their cloud support I'm done with wifi devices and only buying devices that work locally like zigby, zwave or thread.

Is the range (and sensitivity at long range) better than the aqara P1 based on your experience? I feel like my aqara P1 is only accurate at close range

Should’ve added Onvis motion sensor to the comparison/review