X-10 ActiveEye Motion Sensor (Outdoor) Model MS16A

by X10

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 6.1 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B000NJBRNW
• Item model number: MS16A
• Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
  • #45 in Electronics > Security & Surveillance > Motion Detectors
• Date first available at Amazon.com: February 15, 2007

Product Description

With the small, sleek and powerful ActiveEye Motion Sensor, you no longer have to leave your lights on all night to ensure your guests have a safe walk up to your door and discourage potential intruders from sneaking up to a darkened home when you are away. The weather-resistant ActiveEye Motion Sensor wirelessly signals X10 lights to switch on the instant someone sets foot onto your property keeping your home safe and secure while offering a welcoming light to your guests. The built-in, customizable photocell detects when it's dark so it can save energy by turning lights on only when it detects motion in the dark or you can set it to transmit every time it sees motion, even if it's not dark.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Works quite well, September 17, 2011

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BB Indiana (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: X-10 ActiveEye Motion Sensor (Outdoor) Model MS16A (Electronics)

Works very well, long battery life and a pain in the butt to program. KEEP all your X10 papers somewhere or you will be sorry, however you can use the Web and download instructions. I just keep a folder as I have a bunch of X10 products.

I use this unit outside in 5 locations to turn porch lights on, activate cameras when someone is in back yard, sound a gong inside, etc, etc... I get about a year on a set of 'quality' batteries but as soon as you pull one out to replace, it loses all the settings you made and that is an annoyance. I even thought about soldering and extending a couple of battery wires on the outside of the unit so I could clip a battery on the unit so its memory wouldn't be erased as I changed the batteries (but I haven't). Yes it is that much of an annoyance if you don't use the default settings BUT I like the units very much.

Use this model indoors or outdoors.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Once you program it..works great, July 28, 2011

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DarkRubyMoon "Eric" (Maryland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: X-10 ActiveEye Motion Sensor (Outdoor) Model MS16A (Electronics)

This is one of those things where you'll curse for an hour trying to figure out how to program it. Hold A...then B while light blinks once for something, twice for something else, than press A then B...then some other button...then it blinks the wrong number of times...then you curse... repeat. Once you program it... it works great...sometimes a little too good. I had to put an index card on side to limit the motion sensing range as anytime anyone came anywhere near it, it would turn the lights on. Works great for few months... batteries die..time to reprogram... and curse. Its a cool item, I love it when it works... but I also leave it with dead batteries for a few months before I finally get the nerve to reprogram.

1.0 out of 5 stars Piece of junk, January 13, 2012

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Jed Murphy "avidar" (Boston, MA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: X-10 ActiveEye Motion Sensor (Outdoor) Model MS16A (Electronics)

This unit, as others have suggested, is a nightmare to program. You can't see the red indicator light except in the dark, so you have to try to program it with a flashlight which is not quite shining on the unit but has enough light to see the miniscule buttons. Trying to decide what the directions means is another challenge. Finally, once you get it programmed, it will work fine just enough times for you to think everything is fine, then it will take on a mind of its own and decide it wants to keep the lights on from dusk to dawn, even though you've had it working just the opposite for the past hour. Amazingly frustrating.