X10 Community Forum

🔌General Home Automation => Automating Your House => Troubleshooting Automation Problems => Topic started by: bruberg on March 19, 2012, 11:24:25 AM

Title: Options with Motion Detector
Post by: bruberg on March 19, 2012, 11:24:25 AM

Is it possible with a MS14A to have a timed event for outside lights, say 6pm to 11pm, and then from 11pm till daylight, work off of the motion detector?
Thanks

Title: Re: Options with Motion Detector
Post by: bkenobi on March 19, 2012, 12:16:01 PM

Are you asking if it's possible to have the motion turn lights on only between certain periods?  If so, then yes if you have smart macros.  If so, just add a flag on a timer for when you want the lights to be available.  Set a macro so that when the motion is seen and the flag is active, turn the lights on.

Title: Re: Options with Motion Detector
Post by: bruberg on March 19, 2012, 03:25:00 PM

Thanks for the info. I'll try that option soon. To clarify, the goal is for the outside lights to turn on, say at 7:30pm, and off at 11:00pm. Then from 11:00pm to daylight the next morning, it would work off of the motion detector.

Title: Re: Options with Motion Detector
Post by: Tuicemen on March 19, 2012, 03:34:35 PM

A motion sensor sends a on signal when motion is detected and a off signal after a period of no motion.
Keep the address of it different then the lights, or your macros/timers will not behave the way you wish.