How to have a sensor trigger a light to turn on and then leave it on?

Other Devices & Integrations Lighting & Load Control
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Hello People,

I’m quite new to my Vera3, and have the following set-up: whenever I get back home, as I open the door the sensor triggers the light at the entrance of the house. The problem is that whenever I close the door, the light turns off. What I need to know is how can I program the light to stay on even when the door is closed. I would also like to configure my set-up in such a way that this happens between 6 PM and 8 AM.

Thanks in advance for the help!

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You can set up a scene for that. Not associate it directly.

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Option 1:
Automation → New scene
Enter name/room
Under Devices: Turn on the light you want
Under Triggers: Ad trigger, select the sensor, then
Type of event = “A sensor is tripped”
Name:
Choose “Device is tripped”
Under LUUP, enter “return luup.is_night()”

This LUUP will only cause the light to turn on between sunset and sunrise. More
complex LUUP code can do it between 6 PM and 8 AM.

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Option 2:
Another option it to 3 scenes

  1. SceneA arms the sensor at 6 PM
  2. SceneB disarms the sensor at 8 AM
  3. SceneC does like above, with no LUUP, and the event type
    is “A armed sensor is tripped” instead.
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Thank you very much PurdueGuy for your kind help. Both solutions should work. Now I need to know what to do about the lights going out whenever the door is closed…

Thanks again for your help

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[quote=“Nickson, post:3, topic:170987”]Thank you very much PurdueGuy for your kind help. Both solutions should work. Now I need to know what to do about the lights going out whenever the door is closed…

Thanks again for your help[/quote]They are going out when you close the door b/c the sensor is doing that itself. The sensor and lights are “associated” so the sensor is in control. You need to remove that association.

What kind of sensor?

Check the following:
Click the Wrench for the sensor, the Device Options tab. Do you have anything listed under “Associations”
You might have Group 1, which is set to the device ID(s) of the light(s)?

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I just found the problem… For some wierd reason, there was another trigger associated to the same sensor that was also activating a scene that turned all the lights out. Very wierd, but since I deleted that trigger everything is working.

Thanks for the support!

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Glad you got it worked out!