Distinguish between Open door for come in or go out?

[JDRoberts]

Pressure mats that work with SmartThings. These are also popular for Halloween, by the way.

United security pressure mat

Hi folks - has anyone tried to connect and make work the United Securities z-wave pressure mat? I would like to use this to send me a txt when someone is standing at my front door and to turn on the light when we walk downstairs. Our stairs are in the middle of our house so a motion sensor won’t work without creating a bunch of false alarms. Ken

Using the user code on a smart door lock is a very good idea and should be one of the most reliable methods if it’s a door that has a smart lock on it.

Some people have tried this with two sensors, but the timing gets really tricky. See the following recent discussion for more details:

Capturing Motion and door multisensor sequence to turn a light on based on direction of travel?

I am a newbie and haven’t used the groovy programming I am currently trying to learn though. I want to know which way i’m coming to a door using the motion sensor and the door contact switch to turn on the porch light when i’m leaving. I used one of the sample programs to turn a light on with motion and tried to add the contact switch and add some IF AND logic but I was unsuccessful. In the example they used a motionhandler EVT I tried to alter the result of the motionhandler EVT if the door was closed but that didn’t work either.