Motion Sensor Light Socket, Radar Motion Screw LED CFL Incandescent Bulb Adapter, Dusk to Dawn Dimmable Control, Outdoor Indoor Garage Light, for Basement (1)

I'm using this to auto on hexagon garage led lights. To make them work in lit and unlit environments, wrap 1 loop of black electrical tape around the translucent part. The motion still works while thinking it's dark so it'll light up every time. I tried different tape colors and types and this works best.

Socket malfunctioned after six months but company promptly replaced without question. They wanted to inspect the failed unit and sent a shipping label for me to return it. I love the way this device works and it’s very flexible with numerous adjustments.

Was looking specifically for the features of this product to help deal with the neighborhood kids cutting through yards at night while not having to rely on old fashioned dawn/dusk lights. The concept was good, but the implementation was mixed. I had put one in each of the lamps on the front of my garage & waited for nightfall... when the smart setting on each turned on the internal night as the sun set, I thought this fit my needs so I placed another order only to cancel it because of... problems...It wasn’t until I was able to test the settings that I found both of my units were flawed but in different ways. One unit was set to the maximum range of 26.7ft yet couldn’t detect motion much beyond the minimum rage of 6.6ft. When I set it to the minimum range, I had to physically tap on the glass of the lamp’s housing to get it to turn on. The other was dead on with the range of detection. However, once it turned on, it was hit or miss for it to turn off. So I tried a couple experiments with it. Since in detected at maximum range, I set it as such with a 5 second shut off on the light. After I turned it on, I ran about 40 feet before it finished the start up sequence. Then I walked towards it & right near 25 ft it kicked on so I moved back about 10 ft & waited 5 seconds for the light to turn off... nothing. Waited a minute... nothing. Ended up going into the house to watch it (Ohio is still a bit nippy tonight). 10 minutes goes by, then 20, then 30, it finally turned itself off just about 40 minutes later. Again, I had it set for 5 seconds - not 40 minutes.So, I packed everything in the shipping box, removed all the labels, & filed for a return with Amazon. I’ll be getting the return label I requested to be mailed to me for the box to go back via UPS. I’ll just go the route of getting an electrician friend to install a new motion sensor light on the house pointing into the backyard. It’s more expensive than these are, but at least I know it’ll work.

The motion sensor doesn't always activate the light when the motion is slight; sometimes have to walk a few steps to have the light switch on. The light sensor is very sensitive: inside my garage the lights will not activate unless it is very dark, not even close to dusk. I bypassed that feature by taping opaque strips of plastic bag to the outside of the fixture. Now the light comes on anytime motion is detected, even during the day, which is good for me 'cause the garage is always somewhat dark, just not enough for the light sensor to trigger.

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As many other reviews have noted, the manual and instructions for this product are quite poor. Once I figured out what's actually going on, I would say this product basically does work as advertised. It just shouldn't be so much work to understand how it works and what it's intended to do.If you have other motion sensor sockets, or you're shopping for similar products, nearly all other models are traditional motion detectors. These use PIR (passive infrared) sensors, and are actually heat detectors, not strictly motion detectors. If you read the description for this eSenlite product, you may think that has two operating modes: traditional motion detection, and a "smart" mode. You may assume that the traditional motion detection mode that it talks about uses a traditional PIR sensor like the other products. You may assume that the band of translucent plastic around the socket, which looks very similar to other products, is that PIR sensor.That is not the case.From what I can tell, this eSenlite model *only* uses the doppler detection method, regardless of which mode you have the product set to. It is the case that this detection method can in some cases see around corners or even detect motion on the other side of a door. So that's sort of cool I guess, but the main point is there is no traditional PIR/heat sensor on this device.Setting the device to AUTO mode will make it operate very similarly to other motion detector sockets on the market. Once it detects motion, it will turn the light on, and once it stops detecting motion, after a delay, it will turn off. One thing that I did not see mentioned in the description or the manual (or wasn't stated clearly enough) is that the eSenlite device itself has a light in it; basically a nightlight. In AUTO mode, the nightlight turns on when the lightbulb turns on, and turns off when the bulb turns off. I'm not really sure why it does that, the nightlight provides no value when the bulb is on. I guess it's if you want to use the eSenlite *without* a bulb, it could still operate as a motion-activated nightlight.In SMART mode, the device will illuminate the nightlight when the bulb is off. So when there's no motion, the nightlight is on, when motion is detected the bulb is on. When you read the product description and it talks about dimming, I believe this is what it's talking about. I have not seen any evidence that the eSenlite ever dims the bulb that's attached (like, 100% brightness at night, 50% brightness at dusk). They are basically calling the switch between the bulb and the nightlight "dimming". The description does mention a photocell to do dusk-to-dawn illumination. I'm using this product in a basement so I'm not really sure what that means. If I had to guess, I would say it turns off the nightlight when the ambient light is bright enough. It may also prevent the bulb from turning on when motion is detected if the ambient light is bright, but I couldn't say for sure. I believe the photocell only comes into play when in SMART mode, not when in AUTO mode.Using the dip switches to change the configuration was straightforward. The description of how to the switches is clear. The delay and distance settings do what you would expect. There's one switch to change between AUTO and SMART, so that's easy too. Really the only issue is getting a good understanding of what each mode does, and deciphering some of the borderline deceptive feature descriptions on the product page.If you're just looking for a motion detector that works very similarly to other motion detectors, put this in AUTO mode and you should be fine. Just note that this sensor will be more sensitive than PIR sensors, so you may find that it turns on even if you don't actually enter the room where it's installed.