When the garage door is closing or opening (LED 7 blinks yellow).When the garage door is open (LED 7 glows yellow).Hope that helps you some!Įdit: also thanks for the reminder that I really need to try your switches with the led notifications.Īs long as you mentioned it, here is what I've set up for my downstairs dimmers I arrived at the "180" value by simply waiting until it was noticeably dark inside and then checking the LUX value.Īnyway that works really well! Today was a very rainy, overcast day and the lights were already on inside when I got home from work. I did that to avoid turning on lights because of an intermittent cloud or 2. So, in fact, the sensor would need to report under 180 twice (consecutively). I use that interval because the sensor reports it's LUX value precisely every 3 minutes. I created an event that turns on INSIDE lights when the floodlight sensor LUX level has been less than 180 for more than 3:05 minutes.However, I fixed this too with the new sensor.
not really a problem more of an annoyance. Also (and this is more important), it gets dark inside quite a bit earlier on an overcast day. HOWEVER, that's not a precise calculation as "dark" relative to sunset is not linear at every time of the year. I set that up because it always gets dark in my house about a 1/2 hour before sunset. My system had always been programmed to turn lights on in the house 30 minutes before sunset. This was not exactly a "problem" but was just something I got used to. I added this tweak to remind me to turn off the lights if I turned them on "manually" and also to give me a heads-up if someone (or my dog) was in the driveway. It will BLINK magenta when the lights are turned on by motion (did this with another event). It will GLOW magenta when the lights are turned on by Z-Wave. I have another event that causes the 3rd LED on my dimmer to turn magenta.This allows me to see a lighted view of the driveway any time I want AND it fixes my snowblower problem too because the motion timeout is ignored when the lights are controlled with Z-Wave commands. Floodlights now turn on & off when I triple-tap the dimmer (HS-WD200+) that controls my breezeway lighting.(2) I'd end up snow-blowing the driveway in the dark 5 minutes after I ventured out of range of the sensor (where my driveway meets the road)! After I installed an early test unit (which I still need to replace), I created the following events to fix those issues:
(1) My after-hours view of the driveway was always dark unless someone (or my dog) tripped the sensor. So, my floodlights ONLY came on when motion was sensed and they ALWAYS turned off after the manually-set timeout of 5 minutes. However, it's a detached garage and I did not have a switch for it inside the house. In my case, I already had a conventional motion-activated floodlight fixture installed over my garage. Join the Home Automation Discord by Clicking Here! (If you would like your sub listed please contact the mods!) It will get removed and you will be banned without warning. Please use the provided flairs to appropriately label your posts.ĭo not spam your blog, website YouTube channel, company, product, etc. Reposts, low-effort content, karma whoring, and shitposts may be removed at the discretion of the mods. Posting a video/image without detail will result in a removed post and may result in a ban.Ĭrowdfunding links MUST be in a self-post with more information, Q&A, etc. When posting project details must be included. NO POLITICS! There are plenty of other subs to discuss them, this is not one. Referral/affiliate links are NOT ALLOWED! If you are being an ass you will be banned. This is a forum for friendly discussion, personal attacks will not be tolerated and you will be banned without warning.ĭon't be a dick, it doesn't make yours bigger. If you are not sure about what you are doing, hire a licensed professional.****
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