Increasing Arm delay to let motion detectors reset

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I have a Vera Edge controller with several motion detectors. My dilemma is that the motion detectors (Ecolink Z-Wave PIR Motion Detector, Pet Immune (PIRZWAVE2-ECO)) take several minutes to reset after being triggered, so when I walk through the house, and then set the controller to Away (to arm the system), the controller waits 90 seconds, so I can leave the house, but the motion detectors haven’t yet resetted, so when the 90 seconds is up, the alarm sounds. Any ideas on how to resolve? (I’m not in to programming, so doing a bunch of code stuff isn’t the answer for me). How about changing, in the “Z-Wave settings” section, the “Number of seconds to wait to start polling” to, say “600” (10 minutes). Does anyone know if this would solve my problem and not create any new ones (any unintended consequences of changing this setting?).

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You have multiple options:

  1. Change the 90s to longer than the motion sensors Holds the TRIPPED state. (As you said many are set for a few minutes).
  2. If the device supports changing the time it stays TRIPPED, you can reduce to less than 90s.
    The problem here is that you will use battery more quickly as it will use the radio tripped/untripped more often when there is activity in the room.
  3. You can arm the alarm system when the motion sensor changes to NOT TRIPPED.
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Hi Richard … How do I change the 90 second delay to something like 4 minutes? Thanks, Guy

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Or create a scene that untriped the sensor status before arming

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Go to Dashboard, click the little arrow next to “My Modes”, Scroll to the bottom, under “How much time to wait before changing mode?”
you have to parameters you can play with
Wait XX seconds before changing from home to any other mode. – This is the one you want to change to 240 for 4 minutes
Wait XX seconds before reporting a motion, door, window tripped – This is when you come home and have failed to disable the alarm. How many seconds do you let the Vera wait before it really is reporting an alarm to you.

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Thanks Rafale! That was simple. Too bad there are no instructions for the Vera Edge – or have I missed some, somewhere?!

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Not sure. I tend to explore everything myself and only go look at the manual when I really can’t find it so… No I never really looked up any instruction for this. I think I noticed it when I was testing the Vera geolocation.

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I trigger a Vera Automation Scene with LUUP code to reset the sensors…

[code]function resetSensor (device)
local SECURITY_SENSOR_SERVICE =“urn:micasaverde-com:serviceId:SecuritySensor1”
luup.variable_set (SECURITY_SENSOR_SERVICE, “Tripped”, 0, device)
end

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