Light Automation: override time based dim setting if motion is detected?

[PDJ (Peter Jenkins)]

Hi, please could someone advise me if what I am trying to do is achievable as I haven’t managed to succeed yet.
I have three Hue lights at the front of my house which I have programmed via the SmartThings app to come on to 50% brightness at dusk and go off at dawn. What I would like to do is to get these lights to go to 100% brightness with PIR motion detection ie when someone comes onto the drive. Is this possible???
Help and advise would be much appreciated

[milandjurovic71 (Milan)]

All of this is done in Smart Lighting as runs local

I do have another Smart Lighting Automation that turn them on on Sunset and off on Sunrise.

[milandjurovic71 (Milan)]

I used “Smart Porch Light” app before as it does all of this, however I have decided to change it to stock apps.
It works flawlessly but is not local.

[PDJ (Peter Jenkins)]

That’s exactly what I’m after.
Did you program it via the SmartThings App?
If so, can you point me in the right direction how?

[milandjurovic71 (Milan)]

@PDJ those two Automations are done in Smart Lightning in Smartthings app.
Got to Smart Apps, add Smart Lighting if you don’t have it, and add New Lighting Automation. You will need to set automation for Motion and No motion.
Look at my screenshots.

[JDRoberts]

See steps 1 through 4 in the following FAQ for how to find smartlighting if you have it:

FAQ: create a virtual three-way using the “mirror“ feature of SmartLighting

[PDJ (Peter Jenkins)]

Thanks for the advice both.
I have found the lighting automation as suggested, many thanks.
Milan, I have used your screen shots to program my lights but have obviously missed something out.
I’ll have a practice over the next few days to see if I can spot where I have gone wrong and let you know how I get on.

[PDJ (Peter Jenkins)]

Hi Milan,
Thank you so much for your help, I think I have successfully programmed my lights to come on to 50% brightness at dusk and to activate to 100% brightness with PIR motion.
Is there a way to get the lights to come on to 100% brightness for say 5 minutes with PIR activation and then go back to 50% after that?

[milandjurovic71 (Milan)]

In one of my screenshots you can see option that you can use for delay

[PDJ (Peter Jenkins)]

Hi Milan,
You are a superstar, it works just as you said.
Thank you so much for your help and advice, much appreciated

Peter Jenkins