I just got my first Motion Sensor device its an Everspring HSP02. The manual says:
“The Motion Detector is designed with two detecting sensors, Passive Infra-Red
(PIR) sensor and light sensor, in order to fulfill the purpose of security and home
automation.”
I have successfully got the PIR motion sensor added in to VeraLite and working to turn on and off my porch light on motion, I set all this up in VeraLite UI rather than setting up the associations directly on the devices themselves. In VeraLite the sensor looks like the attached image below, and the Green and Red man changes and works as expected.
However I was hoping to also be able to use the inbuilt Light sensor on this HSP02 device to control when the lights in my living room should come on, rather than using Sunset timers as I am now. I was expecting this HSP02 device to be added to VeraLite as two devices for the two inbuilt sensors but this doesn’t seem to be the case.
Does anyone know how to use the Light Sensor on the HSP02 with VeraLite ?
I don’t own this device, but looking at the manual it seems you can set parameter 5 (Lux Level) to the light threshold below which a trigger should be sent.
Given that it presents itself as a binary sensor, it may be that you can’t get the light level reading through Z-Wave.
Bummer, I got this just for the light level function. I have a scene that turns on hallway lights when a door opens, but only at night. I wanted to use this sensor to replace the day/night for better control.
I don;t have this exact model…but I never figured the logic either and I do have the light at when it was dark…vs using sunset as the time it got brighter. I wanted to have the lights turn on only when it was a certain light threshold (using PLEG).
The problem is when the lights turn on, it basically gets really bright in the room and the sensor indicates it bright out Therefore, you can’t use that rooms sensor. Complicating the problem is the light sensor takes at least 5 mins to update on the Vera.
My next thought is to have an outdoor light sensor flip the day/night plugin early if it’s a cloudy day.
Therefore, you can’t use that rooms sensor. Complicating the problem is the light sensor takes at least 5 mins to update on the Vera.