Hello All,
I’ve got a stairwell that has a 3-way light switch circuit - switch at the top and bottom. I’d like to have motion sensing to automatically turn the stairwell lights on as someone approaches the stairs - either from the top or the bottom.
The natural solution, or so I thought, would just put an Enbrighten smart motion dimmer switch at each location and link them with one of the travelers. According to Jasco that won’t work - the only switches that will work in a 3-way configuration with their smart motion dimmer is their add-on switch - which doesn’t have a motion sensor in it. (This seems like a crazy omission - I’m sure all that’s being sent over the traveler is a signal indicating a state change at the other end.)
Anyway, knowing this product limitation, I’m thinking of other ways to solve the problem. Could I set up a routine that simply monitors the state/characteristics of one Enbrighten motion dimmer switch and, upon detection of a change (be that on/off or brightness level) automatically change the second switch to match? And vice versa - two routines, one for each switch. I’d probably need some kind of delay or timeout so it doesn’t get stuck in a perpetual loop.
If so, I could simply put a switch at each end, no need to use the traveler at all - and simply have no load attached to one of them. @philh30 - do you see any problem using your Jasco edge driver in this scenario?
TIA