In my house, I have two motion sensors, one at the bottom of the stairs, and one at the top. These sensors are motion only and don’t report on LUX levels.
I wanted an automation that depending on the time of the day would turn them on to a preset brightness level, wait until there was no motion then turn them off.
Now, I found that when these sensors send an ‘off’ signal, there would be a delay of 60 seconds before they could be triggered again by motion, so to avoid inconvenience I built this 60-second delay into my flow:
I’m using these Sonoff sensors (zigbee) in my setup.
As you can see, my lights only trigger if it is between 1.5 hours before sunset and 22:30 (lights on at 100%) or between 22:30 and an hour after sunrise (lights on at 10% so we are blinded in the middle of the night!). Outside of these times, the lights are controlled the old fashioned way!
When the motion sensor reports clear, there is a 60-second delay, a check that there are no new motion events, then turn the lights off. This delay means that when the lights go off, the sensors are in a state ready to be triggered again.
You can download the flow below and try it yourself.
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