Flush mount ceiling light with motion sensor?

[shabby]

Trying to find a ceiling light with a motion sensor but haven't had much luck, most are exterior lights with exposed bulbs.
Something like this would be good enough where the motion sensor would be at the bottom and not look out of place.

 

[MustISO]

What about putting the motion sensor at the light switch? That's how I've seen it with lights like the one above.

 

[shabby]

That won't work since the light switch is in a busy area and the light is in the closet which has an and additional entrance from the garage. So i basically need the light to turn on whenever i enter from the garage.

 

[natto fire]

The least complicated thing I can think of is one of these.

How effective it would be depends on the cover for the light (space requirements, frosting of glass blocking occupancy sensor), and what kind of bulb you have in it. Obviously, this solution would also require the light switch to be on all the time, so not ideal, but cheap and easy.

A more advanced method would be to put a door jamb switch on the door you want to activate the light. A lot more foolproof and reliable than an occupancy sensor, but would require additional wiring, and again would have to keep the light switch on, or blank it out and tie line and load inside the switch box.

 

[shabby]

I thought about that sensor but with a bulb installed it would get too close to my head. The door jamb switch is a novel idea but not sure i want to run any wiring and figure out how to connect it to 110v.
Found this just now http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0157RTZC4?psc=1 seems it'll give me a bit more headroom.

 

[natto fire]

I thought about that sensor but with a bulb installed it would get too close to my head. The door jamb switch is a novel idea but not sure i want to run any wiring and figure out how to connect it to 110v.
Found this just now http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0157RTZC4?psc=1 seems it'll give me a bit more headroom.

Nice solution, at a good price. Are you just going to keep the switch on, or are you thinking of blanking it out while you occupy the home?

 

[DrPizza]

Rather than searching for motion detectors, a few years ago, I found a much larger selection when I searched for "occupancy sensor." Seems this term is applied more often to indoor situations.

 

[natto fire]

Rather than searching for motion detectors, a few years ago, I found a much larger selection when I searched for "occupancy sensor." Seems this term is applied more often to indoor situations.

Yeah, we have been using "occ sensor" in my trade for quite a while now. They are all garbage devices to us. Seems like OP might have found his diamond in the rough.

Some occupancy sensors use infrared to determine if someone is there, and others use microwave. The microwave ones are less susceptible to physical interference over the IR ones, but the IR ones are cheaper and have fewer false positives.

 

[DrPizza]

I don't mind false positives - I don't care if the lights turn on. I have false negatives - flapping my arms like mad to get the lights to turn back on.

 

[natto fire]

I don't mind false positives - I don't care if the lights turn on. I have false negatives - flapping my arms like mad to get the lights to turn back on.

Perhaps you missed that part where I eschewed them as crap. You don't have to worry about it because you don't live in a crap tract housing development.

Again, these things are garbage, Leviton especially makes shitty devices for cheap to deck out a tract home. I have worked for M/I, and Maronda, they are basically only concerned with getting people into their home and cross their fingers they don't foreclose.

Some people are so obsessed with the "American dream" they don't even take a few seconds to really examine the house they might be buying.