Now I wanted to share some tips about how I wired the interior of my house to use Indigo and the Aeotec Multisensor 6. This is a new construction project, with a bit of existing house modification, so the walls and ceilings were already open. The reason I did it this way is that after 7+ years of using Indigo motion sensors, I'm tired of replacing batteries! And the Insteon sensors seem to be far less configurable compared with the Multisensor.
Insteon does have a new motion sensor that can be hardwired, but it's (a) lacking a recessor kit so needs to be surface-mounted, and (b) was not available a month or so ago when I purchased everything; here's a link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/product/B06XY58C52
The steps:
- 1. Draw wiring diagram overlaid on house floorplan, with Cat6 going to locations of the Multisensors. Everything terminates in the mechanical room--a large closet devoted to this purpose that's centrally located. Leave excess Cat6 and make sure it's not covered up during drywall. A long nail for this purpose seems to work well.
2. Once drywall is done and painting is complete, bore holes in walls or ceiling for the Aeotec "DSE010 Multisensor 6 Recessor" kit. The kit makes things look a lot better for a hardwired installation. Otherwise you have wires hanging out of the walls.
3. Terminate the Cat6 and attach a PoE to female 5V USB converter to each location. I used this one by Wasserstein, which looks large but is small enough to fit through the holes bored for the recessor kit: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01NA ... UTF8&psc=1 Here's a photo of what it looks like before being stuffed inside the ceiling cavity: https://goo.gl/photos/veaz6ApKFTJHKRaH8
4. Plug the Multisensor's male USB output into the female USB converter and wiggle the recessor kit into the wall or ceiling. If you're not careful (I speak from experience) you may need to do some drywall patching and painting. Here are some photos after doing some painting touchups, so the Multisensor is hanging from painter's tape: https://goo.gl/photos/kVDubbvajGWw7Hsj8 https://goo.gl/photos/godKbGjYARdsurTDA
5. Connect the Cat6 ends at the home run location to the PoE injector. I used this one by WiFi-Texas with PoE ports that are always-on: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01BI ... UTF8&psc=1
6. This is what the final installation looks like: https://goo.gl/photos/pAQ9jdgZJku4G9Pr8
Some other tips: I made the mistake of locating most of the Multisensors in the wall when I planned on surface-mounting them early on. But then I realized flush-mounting via the recessor kit makes more sense, and for that ceilings look better. But by then it was too late to move things, so most of my Multisensors ended up in the walls instead of in the ceilings.
I'm just starting to add the sensors to Indigo now so don't have everything up and running yet. But the initial Multisensor is working via the first Cat6 cable I lit up as a test, and I'm hoping the rest of the sensors have power as well! I haven't installed the exterior Multisensors so don't have any experience to report there yet. I hope this helps in the form of Insteon/Multisensor tips...