Considering the common remarks in everyone's experience with the hawkeye I think I've deduced it's performance strategy and it's a pretty crummy one.
The motion sensor isn't active continuously. That probably runs down the batteries too fast anyway. It seems to take a reading about every 10-15 seconds. I can walk into my kitchen and if I'm not detected immediately FREEZE, then watch the hawkeye. A little red light flashes when it is polling. I can move right after this flash and not get detected so long as I freeze before the next one. The light may NEVER come on at all.
Since it sends an OFF code once it has seen no action for a minute, the light often turns OFF on us while in the kitchen just because we weren't moving enough at the moments it scanned.
It would have been nice to have this documented from X-10. I can still find uses for mine knowing it's detection strategy, but it sucks at what I originally bought it for.
