I have my routines and modes set to turn on a couple of interior lights and my outdoor lights at 10% during the evening. I would like an option to brighten the lights on motion and/or contacts. I have tried smart lighting, but the set to level after motion stops does not work. I have also tried ligh…

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I second this. Using Rule Machine, I have all of my outdoor lights doing precisely this. On at sunset and dimmed to 1%. Then dimmed to 100% when specific doors are opened, returning to 1% after a set time. Been bulletproof so far.

Unfortunately this is over my head. I installed (I think), but when I open the app I click create new rule only to get a white screen with no options.

Did you follow the instructions to the letter? If you don’t hit ‘done’ when you first go in you will get this error. Reread the instructions.

I’ll try again. Do I have to do anything to the code to create my rule or is it all done within the mobile app?

It’s all done in the mobile app. Many users have missed this step when installing Rule Machine.

It took a couple of tries, but I got it finally. Thanks!

So, I have this working but I wonder if i’m doing it the best way. Should I have two rules (one for brighten with motion and one for dim after motion), or can I do it with one rule to simplify things? I am thinking maybe I can use the false action to turn them back to dim? Currently for my brighten…

Try something like this: Condition: motion active Rule: motion active Action for true: dim lamp to 80 Action for false: delayed dim lamp to 20, cancellable More options: only when mode is Evening, Daytime When you have both triggers and conditions, you have a triggered rule, which is only eval…

By cancellable on the false action, I assume that’s the “cancel on truth change” under the delay?

Brighten light with motion then dim after motion stops

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jnschemm (James) January 4, 2016, 12:24am 2

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Brighten light with motion then dim after motion stops

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