Fibaro light sensor bug?

Other Devices & Integrations Lighting & Load Control
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When I added my Fibaro motion sensors a long time ago (right after release in the US) they seemed to report lux correctly. But, since I wasn’t using it for anything I just ignored it. Today I sat down to try and start configuring some PLEG logic to leverage lighting levels to determine if motion should activate a light or not and see now that I’m showing either 0 or 1 for the lighting levels. I have a light on right above it and it shows 0. Another room has a couple of lights and lots of windows and it’s showing 1 for the level.

Has anyone else seen this? I’m wondering with some of the recent firmware updates on Vera if I’ve stumbled into a bug. Hard to believe that I’ve had three different sensors all go bad :slight_smile:

I’m running a Vera Edge with 1.7.1598

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The lux threshold is 200 by default meaning the the light has to change by that much before it will report. Most lights do not create that large of a change, only full direct sunlight.

You need to set Parameter 40 (a 2 byte Dev), to something lower for this to be affective, or set the timing parameters to just report lux at a regular interval.