I recently got some light switches and paired them up to my smartthings. Iāve got them turning on when motion is detected in a room. The problem is i have a few rooms where i donāt want them to turn on right away, but wait for motion to be detected for a minute or so before they go on.
Basically i have these dogs that like to run around the house, sometimes they run through a room then leave really quickly. I donāt want them turning the lights on all the time.
Is there anything like this currently or do i need to look into hacking something together?
The Ecolink āpet immuneā zwave motion sensor is on the official list of Things That Work with SmartThings and is specifically designed to address this issue. Basically this and similar products ignore smaller size creatures, so their motion doesnāt trigger the sensor.
There may be code approaches as well, but just wanted to mention itās a common enough problem that there are motion sensors designed for just this use case.
@sebirdman Are you using the PEQ motion sensors from best buy? I didnāt know they had temperature on those, what device type are you using for those?
Arno, iām looking for something that turns ON the lgiht after X seconds OF MOTION. i donāt want it to turn on automatically after a little motion. Iām looking for more sustained motion.
tgauchat
(ActionTiles.com co-founder Terry @ActionTiles; GitHub: @cosmicpuppy)
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Itās a bit of a challenge in SmartApps because the motion sensors tend to say āactivity = trueā for several seconds (?) before resetting to false.
This varies by model, but may be configurable. And still workable if you are willing to wait substantially long enough to get that ācertaintyā it is a humanā¦
and paired them up to my smartthings. Iāve got them turning on when motion is detected in a room. The problem is i have a few rooms where i donāt want them to turn on right away, but wait for motion to be detected for a minute or so before they go on.