Fully automating your smart home is the holy grail of having a smart home.
Having it do things automatically is the whole reason we want a smart home in the first place.
It's just to make our life a little bit easier or in my case it's
just one big toy but you can't do that without sensors. Today, we're going to
look at motion sensors which just turned on these lights. This is the Onvis for
Homekit. Let's check it out!
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honest review but that won't sway my opinion in one way or another. I will be
leaving affiliate links down below where can pick up this product and also a link
to my website to my full pros and cons list which I do update occasionally so
if you come back a year from now I want to see what I think of the product
a year later check out that link down below. So like I mentioned sensors are
important part of a smart home, it's not the first thing that you need on your
list but after you get a couple plugs and bulbs you definitely wanna consider
sensors. Now there are two major types of sensors there's door and window sensors
and then a motion sensor like this Onvis motion sensor. Now if you are using
homekit Onvis is definitely one the cheapest out there on the market. I don't
think it is the cheapest. I think Aqura is the cheapest but then you need
additional hub in addition to your Apple hub. What's great about Onvis is that
you don't need a Apple hub or homekit hub if you don't want to. However, I highly
recommend one, which you can use a a Apple TV with I think it's a fourth
generation a iPad with iOS I think it's 10 above and a home pod. You can use any
of those as Apple hub that way you can use this for automations and it can be
triggered even when you're not home. Another nice thing about this on this
motion sensor is that it's not just a motion sensor it actually has a humidity
sensor in there and also a temperature sensor . Onvis does use bluetooth for
its communication which connects directly to your phone if that's the way
you want to set it up. Like I said earlier I think you should set this up
with apple homekit hub that way you get automations and you can use it remotely
so I'm going to assume that you have have it set up like that already but
being bluetooth in the first place is probably not the best for larger homes
if you do have a larger home unfortunately you can't put this
probably more than 30 maybe if you're lucky 40 feet I'm about 40 feet away
from my Apple TV and the signal comes in and out. Sometimes when I walk
into the room it doesn't go off. Most of the time it does and it's pretty quick
There might be a slight delay but unfortunately, there are times that do walk
in the room and it doesn't go off at all. It does use two AAA batteries which
they do include and they say it can last about a year. I'll be updating my full
pros and cons list so if you want to get update on the batteries check out my
full pros and cons list right there or down in the description.
It does include two double-sided pads and also a couple screws so you can
easily mount this in any location. Setting this up is super easy I do recommend
that you do say up and home kit and use the home kit app. You can try the Onvis
app if you want to. I checked it out and it's definitely nothing to write home
about. Supposedly you can get more features
in the app like time intervals and day records but I just found it very very
buggy so I just deleted it off my phone and continued to use it just in Homekit
but to add this to Homekit hit the + on top right. Go ahead scan the QR code
which is on the side of the motion sensor and within a couple of seconds
it's automatically going to add you can designate what room you're going to put
this in and if you're not already using zones I highly recommend that you use
zones. If you want to see a video of how to set up zones in rooms check out this
video right up there or a link down in the description. I think there's a lot of
value here definitely for Homekit you are getting three sensors in one. For
that price you're getting a temperature sensor a motion sensor and a humidity
sensor. You really can't go wrong there the only only downside is that it is
bluetooth so if you do have a larger home or if you know you want places
somewhere beyond you know probably 30 feet this
might not be for you but if you do know that's gonna be close enough to your
Homekit hub this is definitely a winner especially for that price. If you guys
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