HSM100 Motion Help with Setup

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I’ve been playing with this for several days and I can’t seem to get the setting right.

Here is what I am trying to achieve;

I have an HSM100 in the garage.
I have two fluorescent lights in the garage that are controller by a GE On/Off wall switch.

I want the lights to turn on anytime there is motion in the room. And stay on for 5 minutes after there is no motion. So if I am out there working in the garage for 25 minutes I want the lights to stay on the whole time. Then after I leave the garage 5 minutes (or around there) the lights turn off. But I want to be able to talk RIGHT back in after the lights turn off and have them activate again.

So - any help with what those setting should look like?

Thanks so much as this has been driving me a little crazy :slight_smile:

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The first thing is to understand how the motion sensor works. How the sensor works is not completely obvious and the vera UI is even less so, so I had similar problems until I “got” how it works. Then it’s simple. Read the following tip I wrote first http://forum.micasaverde.com/index.php?topic=4450.msg23909#msg23909 and d/l the ezmotion manual http://www.expresscontrols.com/pdf/EZMotionOwnerManual.pdf

Based on what you what to do, you want to change the “still time” parameter (“still time” is my word for it, in the sensor it’s called “on time”) in the sensor itself. This requires you to put it into test mode to program the sensor (see the tip above) from vera to change the still time parameter from 25 to 5min. Once you do this the sensor will change it’s state after 5min of “stillness” or no motion. Then you want to create two scenes. One to turn it on when it’s been tripped. And another to turn it off when it switches to “still” (after 5min of no motion). After reading the overview post above it should be clear on how to do that. If it’s still not working let me know.

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Put the sensor into test mode (press blue reset button on sensor) so that it can be programmed by vera (reason it has to be in test mode is that in order to save battery power the sensor is a “transmit only” device under normal operation - so test mode allows it to receive commands from vera to change the settings)

Then in the device options tab of the 3-n-1 sensor (not the motion sensor), set “On Time” (desired value) parameter to 5. close and save vera settings. (note in my screen shot below, that vera says it cannot get information from the node. this is because the sensor is not in test mode. if you put it in test mode, this error message will go away and you can program the settings for the sensor)

then create a new scene “garage light on”,
event tab → add event → device: motion sensor
trigger type : a sensor (door/motion/etc) is tripped
name: whatever you want
tripped?: yes

then create a command to turn on the light
command tab → check garage light → On → and “leave it”

then close and save vera settings

now repeat above and create a scene “garage light off”
but set tripped?: No
and
garage light → off → and “leave it”

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Thanks - this is working perfectly now.

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awesome