Motion Lockout

Plugins & Plugin Development Program Logic (PLEG)
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Hello,

I have a situation where my motion sensor is directly below a light switch. The problem is that when I manually turn off the light, the light gets reactivated by the motion sensor before I can get out of the way.

I’m replicating this in my “test room” via the attached virtual devices. I thought I could look for a device to be FALSE (off) for a period of time before allowing the trigger to fire but when I use the attached trigger condition the trigger never happens. I’m trying to delay 5 seconds of the light being off before allowing a new trigger.

Anyone care to help?

Thanks!

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Did you mean:

Trigger MotionTripped AND (!VirtualHallLight; MotionTripped > 5)

?

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:slight_smile: I believe that will work just fine! Essssh. Sorry for the ID10T moment. Can you do AND statements within a sequence? e.g (!VirtualHallLight AND !somethingelse);MotionedTripped>5

I will try that when I get to a PC.

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Can you do AND statements within a sequence?

No you can’t. Sequence terms cannot be expressions - although the ! (not) operator is allowed. This can be a limitation in PLTS where you can’t add another condition to pre-compute the term.

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Interesting. It may be ok for this one but I can see where one would be forced to PLEG here. Thanks Rex. I will report my findings. (Which I assume will be just fine.)

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With the exception of the UI buttons and countdown, you can now implement all PLTS functionality in PLEG. I’m not knocking PLTS and I still use it for simple timing functions but PLEG’s flexibility is unbeatable.

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Rex -

As you would guess, this worked just fine. Thanks again.

I also moved the Bathroom back to a PLEG because I was having trouble “overriding” the timer’s authority (see other thread if interested).