Motion sensor turns light on/off under certain conditions?

[JDRoberts]

@Paybax

I did it with “automate Lights and switches”. Ya good idea I might just create a mode for it.

Ideally the rule would say if light is already on that the rule wouldn’t shut the light off.

There is a way to do that with custom code, but you would need to start from the beginning and rebuild your existing rules so that they are wrapped in the logic to not turn the light off under certain circumstances.

So it can definitely be done, it’s just a lot more complicated than just using the mode and changing the mode manually when you want to ignore the existing rule.

Core is a very sophisticated community – created rules engine. So you could look into that. But I think it would be overkill for this situation.

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