Thanks!
I’m still doing some long term tests with several Chinese PIR’s overhere. I have one PIR on 433Mhz that has a jumper for setting timeout. Unfortunately the Chinese variant of ‘5 minutes timeout’ is 4 minutes in real life :P
I have 2 PIR’s (China) running on 315 Mhz and they work perfect. Unfortunately no timeout jumper, so if you would sit in range it will send every 10 seconds or so. Solved with various rules.
Some cheap Panasonic batterys (9v block battery) stopped working after 7 days (or about 450 hits). A expensive Duracell (X1604, 7800 mah) stopped working after about 2 to 3 weeks.
Strange thing is : I configured the Pimatc device as a PIR6 device. turns out : when Pimatic stops receiving the China PIR, the PIR doesn’t stop sending. It only transmits less different protocols (perhaps due to some more errors in the broadcast??).
When the PIR6 protocol is no longer in the broadcast, other protocols keep being send. Tested with a battery that wasn’t received anymore vs a brand new battery: there is similarity in the received protocols/unit/ID but a gew protocols are no longer received (or send?).
I have put in a battery that I had written off as ‘empty’ and added a protocol to the device (PIR2). I will continue to test how long this will work on the cheap battery.
I don’t care what protocol is being send, as long as it meets my requirements:
- At least 3 months with one battery
- 315 Mhz
- Different unit/ID for each PIR that I buy from China people
- 5 minutes timeout would be awesome, but haven’t found a cheap PIR that operates on 315Mhz with a timeout jumper