ihome molite experience

[FireSon]

The Molite is a 3 in 1 sensor by iHome, a dutch company which is active since 2007.
Surfing on the internet I did not find much information especially from people using this device.
According to the manual http://www.ihome.eu/static/manual/molitesensor.pdf the sensor has a battery lifetime of 3 to 5 years which is very good, especially since the 'general' feedback on the Aeon Labs multisensor gives me the impression that it only works satisfactory when powered by usb.
So I would be very interested some user feedback, if they would recommend this product or not...

Regards,

Jan

[airox]

Hi Jan,

I've got this sensor in my sleepingroom closet to enable the lighting. The motion sensor part is OK and reacts better than the aeon labs (got 7 of them also) in my experience.
The temperature needs to be adjusted using it's offset (downside). I really dislike the thing they did with the light sensor. It has only 10 levels and not the lux measurements as the aeon labs has.
This enables to log the lux values for a while and see influence of solar / artificial light on the sensor. And you will definitely need to adjust the reporting frequency. It's far to low by default (2 hours?).

Btw, my aeon labs sensors are all connected to USB. Making frequent measurements (every 20 seconds) possible.

Greetings,

Gijs

[uAlex73]

I looked at iHome stuff to, but when i wanted to order some things, they raised some prices 100% ... So i removed iHome from "to-buy-list".

If you want a similar movement sensor, look at Vision:
http://www.domotica-shop.nl/beweging-te ... 16529.html

They are wayyyy cheaper: +/- 35 euro (only no lux)

[FireSon]

Thanks for the Info!!

@Alex73 that one realy looks nice too!
I'm specialy concermed about the battery life, who do they perform in that area.

Regards,
Jan