How to override motion?

[SBDOBRESCU (Bobby)]

@shaun_barrow

it cannot be my problem solely

Well, what seems to be a no-brainer, is actually a PIA to achieve in the SmartThings universe. First of all, you cannot cancel motion events and run that instance locally (without internet), unless you come up with a mode restriction. In order to have a peaceful nap, you will need to either create your own app or use a community developed app. There are several that are available, but I recommend CoRE, which can do anything you want, except for turning your lights off if your internet goes down.

[RELEASE CANDIDATE] CoRE (Community's own Rule Engine)

UPDATE DEC 19 2017: If you are still using CoRE, please update to the latest version as soon as you can. Here’s what changed: v0.3.16e.20171219 - RC - Replaced recovery safety nets using unschedule() with a much more optimized method that does not affect ST as much as unschedule() does This is important as CoRE has been identified as a major choke point on a certain method that it uses (ST describes that as expensive in their documentation. As it turns out, it is. With ST’s help, CoRE is now able to recover from timeouts much faster and with a lot less resources than by using its own recovery safety net. You should also consider moving on to webCoRE instead, as CoRE is no longer actively maintained and only gets critical updates. Thank you Continuing in the BETA process of CoRE (mil…

An alternative to CoRE, is the “Motion Lighting”, but its developer is no longer active in the community, so adding new features and/or fixing bugs may be problematic.

Motion Lighting

For those who have the need for lights controlled by motion sensors, who want different brightness for different modes, and want it to work now instead of waiting for ST to debug Smart Lights, “Motion Lighting” performs these functions (and works!).