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whippintegra@gmail.com posted this 28 December 2014

Hello, I am trying to set up a scene with a motion detector in my garage. What I am trying to accomplish is have the garage lights turn on with motion is detected (easy part) the part I can not figure out is after 10 or so minutes without motion it will turn the lights off.

Any ideas? I am probably missing something silly.


It isn't that complicated (or that easy either).

What you do it create a virtual device (VD), and set a timer on that VD for 600 seconds. Then associate that VD (turn on the VD along with you light) with your scene that you use to activate your light.

Then the 10 minutes timer starts

Create a 2nd scene that uses that VD condition from on to off state to trigger turning off your light.

Let me know if you have any questions...

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eliashall posted this 03 January 2015

note: on the aeonlabs multisensor, the parameter for on time is parameter 3.

eliashall posted this 03 January 2015

The Easiest way to do this is if your motion sensor has on/off states like the Aeonlabs multi sensor.
here is how I have done it:

create a scene called Garage light on.
Add your garage light to the scene in the devices tab and set state to on.
In the triggers tab add your motion sensor and set it to trigger when level 255.

Create a scene called Garage Light Off
in the Devices tab add your garage light and set it to state off.
in the Triggers tab add your motion sensor and set it to trigger when level 0.


set the parameter for your sensor timeout value to match your desired light on time. then once the timeout is reached it will automatically go to state 0 and thus activate your Garage Light Off scene.

weidnerj posted this 01 January 2015

Hello, I am trying to set up a scene with a motion detector in my garage. What I am trying to accomplish is have the garage lights turn on with motion is detected (easy part) the part I can not figure out is after 10 or so minutes without motion it will turn the lights off.

Any ideas? I am probably missing something silly.


It isn't that complicated (or that easy either).

What you do it create a virtual device (VD), and set a timer on that VD for 600 seconds. Then associate that VD (turn on the VD along with you light) with your scene that you use to activate your light.

Then the 10 minutes timer starts

Create a 2nd scene that uses that VD condition from on to off state to trigger turning off your light.

Let me know if you have any questions...

monkey-magic posted this 29 December 2014

I believe the only way to do it is to have the scene trigger every x minutes.(eg. five minutes) If the motion detector has had no movement in the last 10 minutes to then turn off.

If someone has a better method I'd be interested but I think that is what I've read some where.

Josh

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