Detecting night/Day -> Luminance?

[JDRoberts]

@Shepstyle

Mike, would love to hear more details on how you have set up lighting in your home. It sounds like exactly what I’m after, but I don’t have a luminance sensor yet, and keep struggling with modes and hello home phrase confusion.

Care to expand how you use motion, luminance, presence, modes, and hello home phrases together? I feel like there must be a better solution than what I have now.

Have you had a chance to look at Tim Slagle’s “Magic Home” smartapp yet?

It’s very popular, and combines the factors you mention. This is now an officially published app under the name “Hello Home Phrase Director.” You can find it in the mobile app by going to the dashboard, tapping the plus sign, then in smart setup scrolling right on the top to MORE and then tapping CONVENIENCE. It’s in there.

You can also find discussion of it in the following topic:

Hello, Home Phrase Director - Control modes (through hello home phrases) based on occupancy and "sun state"

A lot of peope have had interest in this app over the last few weeks. Setting up a dedicated thread for it. Magic home allows for four hello home scenes to be run based on 2 conditions. 1) Occupancy of your home 2) the current “sun state”. This allows for you to have a sunrise and sunset mode for when your home is occupied and not occupied. I currently have mine setup like this. Away Day - Will trigger when everyone is away and the sun is up Away Night - Will trigger when everyone is away and the sun is down Home Day - Will trigger when someone is home and the sun is up Home Night - Will trigger when someone is home and the sun is down Everything is automated and it will trigger on each event. So everytime the “sun state” changes it will check to see if anyone is home as well as e…