I created an automation that turns on my porch lights when motion is detected by my Ring Doorbell. I don’t see any option where I can say “turn on porch light for x minutes”. So I created a second automation to turn off the porch light after it stops seeing motion for 1 minute. The problem with this…

You can use webCoRE to create a piston that can work properly with the Ring Doorbell. [image] webCoRE Community Forum This is the community forum for the web-enabled Community's own Rule Engine

You’ll need a pause to stop the loop [image]

I no longer have a Ring doorbell but I went through the same thing when I had it. I wrote a small smartapp to handle this, here is a thread about it. [image] Ring Doorbell Motion Sensor with SmartLighting—infinite loop problem Connected Things This was written just for m…

Never Ending Motion Loop

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sidjohn1 (sidjohn1) January 18, 2019, 3:21am 3

You’ll need a pause to stop the loop

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Never Ending Motion Loop

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