I wonder if anyone can help me with the following. I have a 3in1 sensor EZMotion from Express Controls. It is configured as follows: Parameter1 =255 Parameter2 =0 Parameter3 =255 Parameter4=100 Parameter5=255 Parameter6=255
So it is configured to always stay awake. High sensitivity. LED always showing detection of motion
I have it on external power.
I have it trigger a scene that turns the light on where the lights shall stay on for 1hour. It remains armed. I also thought that the way its set up it should always detect motion and re trigger the scene.
What happens is that the light does not always stay on for an hour and when I am in the room the light goes off before it is again turned on. What i want is the light to stay on when a person is in the room and moves enough for the sensor to detect it so that every time there is movement the scene is re triggered.
My question is: Can the scene re trigger every time a signal of motions is sendt from the sensor so that each time a motion is detected the light is set to stay on for another hour?
Can someone explain how the scene mechanism works in terms of triggering, re trigering etc etc
I use the same sensor, but don’t use a sceene to stop it after a while. Instead I use the sensor to start another sceene to switch the light off, when there is no more movement. I do that after 2 Minutes. Normally the light stays on, as long as there is someone in the room. (sensivity set to 240)
I don’t know about retriggering a sceen, but I found that the “stay on for…” often fails and forgets to switch off again. (Using 979 luup btw)
Can someone explain how the scene mechanism works in terms of triggering, re trigering etc etc
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my understanding is that the motion sensor can tell the vera it is tripped or not tripped. If a room is empty and you wallk in the motion sensor willsee you and tell vera it is tripped. it will not send the ‘untripped’ notification back to vera until it hasn’t seen motion for the entire period of motion timeout.
from the manual-
The Motion Timeout is the time from the when the last motion was detected until it sends a Z-Wave OFF
command.
so if the motion timeout is 20 minutes but the snsor sees motion in 15 minutes it resets the timer to 20 minutes and continues to do that. If if at some point it doesn’t see motion by the end of thte timer it will then send the untriggered stutus to vera.
I would expect this behavior as well, but this is not would I have experienced with my 3 in 1. I have tried letting Vera handle the associations as well as directly associating the motion detector to a switch and in both cases, the light turns off after the set timeout period - regardless of whether there was motion during that period or not. I have tried just about every setting and scene configuration possible and I’m frankly about ready to throw the thing out the window. I’m about ready to put a series of lights and motion sensors in the basement and I’m not keen on buying more of these until I get this problem solved.
The one thing I haven’t tried is to have Luup query the motion sensor for the motion report which indicates how many minutes until there has last been movement, but you can only get that report when the sensor wakes up (which if I remember defaults to more than an hour unless you change it).