GE Z-Wave Plus Wireless Smart Lighting Control Motion Switch, On/Off, In-Wall, Occupancy Vacancy Sensor, Includes White & Light Almond Buttons, Works with Amazon Alexa, 26931

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Pros

Works great and is easy to configure. Seems sturdy and well made. I have it hooked up to my hubitat elevation.

No fiddling with swapping the battery out of the sensor and the lights on function is super fast. The motion sensor works but it's not great but that's typical for passive infrared detectors.

As a smart switch/dimmer this work fine with smartthings just like the regular switch. After adding this to smartthing, it always shows up as a dimmer switch, which require you to enter the switch menu before you can turn it on or off. It's fairly wel... Read More

Cons

No motion sensor functionality with smartthings. No instructions for vera and no out of the box vera setup without going into device setting and manipulating advanced parameters. No firmware updates are available unless you have a special hub, which h... Read More

The motion sensor is useless. It only reports people directly in front of it, which is nearly useless in the garage. Their angle of view is apparently very narrow, rendering their use in stairways pointless as well.

This installs like the other switches but wouldn't keep working. No options for controlling or reacting to motion. When it senses motion, it turns on the switch, overriding any programming.

The manual implies that the timer only starts after motion stops, but this was not the case. I have to cycle the breaker to get it going again and that doesn't make it smart again either.

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Quality

Easy install, quick response on motion quality feel

Great piece of technology and a top notch addition to the z-wave devices enabling today’s smart home.

The motion sensor is a full 180 degrees and reacts very quickly to tirn on the light.

My one quibble is that, at least through the integration, while it says you can change the reset cycle on the motion sensor, ev... Read More

Price

I knocked off a star for ease of installation because we’re not all electricians…it is more expensive than other switches by th... Read More

I had to go buy some 12g wire and wall plates so that increases the cost per light switch.

Be sure to drop the author a few bucks for his effort.

Packaging/appearance

Aside from those points, i've got them in the bathrooms that my kids always leave the lights on in.

Click on the upper right gear icon to reveal "timeout duration", "motion sensitivity", and other options.

Competitiveness

12)go back to the smartthings website from earlier.

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This product had a total of 540 reviews as of our last analysis date on Sep 1 2024.