FIBARO HOME CENTRE LITE
We have the honor to present you the new dimension of comfort – Home Center Lite, incredibly compact brain of the FIBARO System. Latest creation, designed with your needs in mind. Let it change your life, making it safer and more convenient, and your home intelligent, efficient and comfortable. Little thing – great effect!
Home Center Lite is a small gateway designed to manage entire smart home system. As one of the smallest smart home hubs it enables home automation programming through its simplified interface. Combine multiple native apps, use voice commands via Google Assistant, Amazon Alexa or Apple Siri or ask your smart home to do things through the Messenger app. Home Center Lite design process brought together a set of verified solutions to make its powerful performance even more tangible. Deliver home automation crafted to your needs with Home Center Lite by flawless integration with a broad range of home appliances and devices. Software extensions implemented to Home Center Lite guarantee an extensive library of drivers for smart TV’s, IP cameras, and other 3rd party devices. Even though the Home Center Lite has a compact size, it allows you to manage your smart home using intuitive interfaces remotely or locally. How fun is that?
My experience with the Fibaro products has been nothing but exceptional, and during my testing which included 5 other motion/multi sensors the Fibaro stood on top as the clear winner.
As far as setup and general easy getting the Fibaro connected to my z-wave network, the instructions in the manual proved to be extremely accurate and helpful. There was no issue getting it linked up and it showed up in my home automation hub (home assistant) without issue.
The Fibaro looks different and has a unique design - it is a sphere. It is small and lightweight. It has an LED eye that lights up (if you desire) to indicate something has passed through its detection field. But most importantly, it works! I have it connected to my SmartThings system and it integrates well with the other things. I use it principally for motion detection - to turn on a light in the kitchen when someone walks in. However, I also use it for Lux so that I'm not turning on lights when it is already bright enough in the house. I know it can also detect movement (even earthquakes), but I don't have a use case for that feature right now. Overall- it is a great device and for me, was worth the extra money.
Reviewed in the United States on June 14, 2020 by Jay
Love the Fibaro Motion Sensor. I installed it to activate some strip lights that I installed on the steps inside my bedroom. The goal is to have the steps light up at night as a safety feature to prevent tripping on the steps. It paired easily with my Smartthings controller. Almost all of the settings were supported via the app on my phone. The one thing I had to go into the API to tweak was the interval at which motion was checked. I need almost immediate detection of motion so that the steps light up as you approach, not 10-15 seconds later. As a result I changed the motion sensor wake interval from the default (15 seconds) to 2 seconds. To conserve the battery I changed a setting to ensure that the motion sensor only wakes when the room is dark. Works perfectly!