Hiome looks cool, but that's quite the expensive occupancy sensor!

guptaneil · on Jan 29, 2020

Thanks, our beta customers love them so far! Regarding price, each occupancy sensor is $79. These are high accuracy thermal sensors with local machine learning that can count occupancy. For comparison, a standard PIR motion sensor that can only tell you if there was motion in the last 30 seconds costs around $50 from Philips Hue or Eve. We think the price is very fair! :)

pottertheotter · on Jan 30, 2020

I guess I would never buy a PIR sensor for $50. You can get them for $6, so that's what I anchor off of. Not that I'd expect your product to be close to $6, but $50 PIR sensors are way overpriced, so I wouldn't ever think to compare to those.

Despite heavily automating my own home and being the person who sets everything up for my extended family, it seems I'm probably not your target market. Sounds like you have some cool tech though!