Occupancy sensor with lutron caseta dimmers

[JDRoberts]

@calumin

Hello – I have a laundry room with a light controlled by a Caseta Wireless dimmer. I also have a SmartThings hub and a Caseta Smart Bridge Pro. I’m in California where we have Title 24 requirements, and I need to have this room controlled by an occupancy sensor. I have a couple questions:

1. Could I install a SmartThings motion sensor to automatically turn on the light if someone enters (or opens the laundry room door)?
2. Could I also have the light automatically turn off xx minutes after the light turns on (or after the sensor last detects motion)?
3. If it’s possible to do (2), do I have to code this myself or is there something off-the-shelf that makes it easy to do this?

Thanks!

Yes to both, and it’s very easy to do with the official smart lighting feature.

The only time it would get more complicated would be if you wanted to set additional “except when” rules, and then you would probably use core which is A much more sophisticated rules engine. But for what you describe so far, the official smart lighting feature would work fine.

https://support.smartthings.com/hc/en-us/articles/205949776-How-to-create-lighting-automations-with-Smart-Lights

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