Complex Lighting Routine Help Needed

[h0ckeysk8er (Bruce Pinsky)]

@gbruyn

Not sure how to quote/reply… but I have a basement that has 1 switch that controls all the lights in the basement. The kids play down there and the room with the motion detector doesn’t cover alot of the area. They also sometimes switch both the stairs light and the basement light on at the top of the stairs when they are grabbing something FROM the stair landing area (toy bins are kept there). But there is never any motion triggered on the motion sensor in this case. So yes, I need a timer as well as motion stopping.

There are two approaches for the timer here. First, using a virtual momentary button with a defined auto-revert interval which can be used as a trigger to evaluate whether the light is still on and turn it off. Second, would be to use the Edge Counter Utility from @TAustin to count elapsed time and then at some selected value (say 15 mins) then turn off the light.

You can combine one of those options with motion conditions to set up your routine.