In fact, the customer service rep was surprised I was able to get the motion piece to work at all (said there were only a couple people who have had success with it, so maybe some of the early bulbs were different?). Turns out the bulb is compatible with SmartThings for on/off and dimming, but the motion sensing component is not integrated yet. I followed-up with Sengled by email and they reached out by phone the next day to discuss (great customer service by the way!). This has been a thorn in my side in an otherwise near perfect SmartThings setup! Will keep folks posted as I evolve the setup. I may try putting in a separate motion detector to control the light and disabling the integrated one in the light however, this defeats the purpose in my view. However, it lacks sensitivity configuration to diminish the number of false positives. Long story short, the bulb works great in theory and is highly flexible in SmartThings. I have other half-dim/full-on motion lights in the back of our house that are not tripped by bugs, so if there was a way to adjust the sensitivity, that may solve the problem however, I recognize the motion sensor is directly on the bulb face itself, unlike the rear lights where the motion sensor is above the lights, so not sure if sensitivity adjustment will solve the issue or not. I had a concern bugs may be a problem, but didn’t know it would be so bad. On windy days, I get a ton of false alerts during the daylight (no bugs drawn to the light) and at night, I got so many alerts that I had to disable the configuration so my wife didn’t kill me. I think thermal drafting during the day in conjunction with bugs at night causes a lot of false positives. All of this worked flawlessly until summer came around. In addition, I set it up to push alerts and texts when motion is detected at night or when we are away. Between that time it is dimmed to 10%, but comes up to 100% when motion is detected. I setup the bulb to come on at sundown and off at sunrise. We use this light in a 12" can that is 18’ up in a vaulted portico entry we have. Ok, so the bulb worked great for the first few months because the weather was cold and the bugs weren’t out yet. They told me they are working on it, so hopefully we will see more functionality in the future. I would like to see better control of the bulb in SmartThings, primarily to adjust the sensitivity. I too have been in contact with Sengled customer service. It worked great for the first few months, but I have had a bit of trouble with it lately (more on why I believe that is in a moment). I was super excited when this bulb was announced and was probably one of the first people to purchase it. In fact, I was the one who posted the positive review on Sengleds website that was included in one of the earlier posts in this thread. It is as easy to control through SmartThings as their other lights, but with integrated motion sensing so you can do more cool stuff. It was easily programmed in SmartThings to come on at a certain time (night), dim when no motion is sensed, brighten when motion is sensed, and send alerts of motion when we are not home or asleep. We use this in a fixture over our portico. I was very excited when this bulb came out because it combines smart functionality with motion sensing. “I am a big fan of Sengled products and have used both motion and smart led bulbs in our house for a couple of years. I also see the desc notes “integrated daylight sensor” which maybe could offer up brightness readings? I poked around the page and it doesn’t seem clear to me what motion sense events you get access to, but I did see the below review which makes me think it does. This would give me that PLUS another controllable light. Been wanting a motion sensor on my back deck so when we are out enjoying the warm weather the whole house doesn’t go to sleep.
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