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Title: Motion Sensor turn off only?
Post by: komobu on February 28, 2007, 07:17:31 PM
Hi;
How can I get a motion sensor to only turn off a light? My daughter never turns the lights off, so I would like the motion sensor to turn off the lights after 5 minutes of no movement. I have noticed though that there are a lot of false triggors that are turning the lights on. So I would like to set it up that she turns the light on if she wants it on, but the motion sensor will only turn it off.

Thanks for any help
Pat
Title: Re: Motion Sensor turn off only?
Post by: vhoang on February 28, 2007, 09:23:16 PM
what kind of setup do you have? 
motion detector - tranceiver - light module?

haven't seen settings in detector to just send OFF and haven't seen modules where you can disable ON.

if the thing in between is fancy enough(macro or pc based), that would be the only place where you would be able to drop the ON signal, without hacking into the modules.
Title: Re: Motion Sensor turn off only?
Post by: Tuicemen on February 28, 2007, 10:58:22 PM
Since you posted in the Smart Macros section of AHP I assume you have it
First set your motion sensor to an address different then your light your trying to turn off.
Next create a macro that turns the light off the trigger is the motion sensors "Off command".
By defalt the sensors off is sent 1 min after motion is not sensed! you can either set the time on the sensor or in your macro if you do it in the macro the macro will look similar to this
(this plus the defalt = 5min)
[li]Turn off lamp[/li][/b][/color]
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