Motion Present/Not Present

SmartApps & Automations Automation Ideas
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Using both IFTTT & ST Motion Detector, I can turn on lights when motion is detected. It would be nice to have a hook to create an action (e.g. turn a light off) when the…motion detection has stopped.

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you can use the motion stopped event for automations with the CoRE smartapp.

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SmartLighting has this too. Why are you using IFTTT? What lighting are you using?

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Im using Philips Hue bulbs with a ST motion sensor. I got IFTTT to turn the light on when the motion was detected by it it remains on. I’d like it to turn off when there is no motion detected.

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Don’t use IFTTT that’s just silly and will present an extra layer of complication and potential reliability

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Concur,
Hue has great integration into ST, it will respond much faster. Just use SmartLighting and Hue(connect) from the market place. With basic motion to turn on lights SmartLighting does a fine job.

More complicated rules you may want to look at CoRe, but 95% of my lighting rules are handled by SmartLighting.

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Fantastic. Thanks guys. I appreciate your help!

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I just started integrating hue lights to my SmartThings and I would recommend the Hue Advanced Connect (community created smartapp) to integrate with your hue hub.

It also integrates with a Circadian Daylight app created by the same community member.

Scott