How to override a Motion Sensor inactivity rule so the Lights Stay On when the Wall Switch is Used? (SmartThings Classic)

[JDRoberts]

This is a pretty common use case now, many people have a motion sensor set to automatically turn the lights off after inactivity, but they want the manual wall switch to override that rule.

I think the most common way to do this is with webcore, which is a very sophisticated rules engine developed by the community. They actually have their own forum now.

FAQ: What is WebCoRE? (And what was CoRE?)

CoRE (now WebCore) is a very powerful community – created rules engine for SmartThings. It allows you to set up stacked conditionals like “If A then B but only while C and not if D.” Setting it up can be quite complex, but there are many community members who will be glad to help you. For example, here is a piston that one member created to notify him if the dog had already been fed twice that day and he picked up the dog bowl for a third time. He needed this because he has a large family and people didn’t always remember whose turn it was to feed the dog. [image] The original version of CoRE Has now been replaced by a new version, WebCoRE, which moves the data entry to a web interface. This allows for flexibility and an architecture that requires more memory than is av…

@anon36505037 might be able to say if there’s an existing topic there on this use case.