Smart Lighting Routine Suggestions needed

[thearchitectuk (Jon)]

Hi all, I’m struggling to get my brain around the logic for a night light system I’m trying to configure.

Over a 3 storey house, I have 3 motion sensors on each landing. The idea is that at night/when it’s dark movement can turn say the middle landing light on to 10%. I can do this with the smartthings advanced lighting routine by only allowing it to work at sunset - and this works well, but with a fly in the ointment. If I have the lights switched on manually and the sensor is triggered (after sun down), the routine above dims the light to 10% overriding the lights which are already on.

I need the movement sensors to ignore movement when the lights are already on.

Any ideas? Thanks

[Edward_Niedziejko]

You might need to use CoRE to set multiple triggers. For example:
If nighttime AND landing light on = false and motion detected = true, set landing light to 10%.

[bobbles (Bob)]

Personally I’d skip CoRE and go straight to webCoRE.
It’s a great app that will let you do what you want.

webCoRE Community Forum

[WB70]

webCoRE Wiki - Web-enabled Community's own Rule Engine

[thearchitectuk (Jon)]

Thanks guys, never heard/used it before - hope I can get my head around it

[JDRoberts]

@thearchitectuk

Thanks guys, never heard/used it before - hope I can get my head around it

FAQ: What is WebCoRE? (And what was CoRE?)

CoRE (now WebCore) is a very powerful community – created rules engine for SmartThings. It allows you to set up stacked conditionals like “If A then B but only while C and not if D.” Setting it up can be quite complex, but there are many community members who will be glad to help you. For example, here is a piston that one member created to notify him if the dog had already been fed twice that day and he picked up the dog bowl for a third time. He needed this because he has a large family and people didn’t always remember whose turn it was to feed the dog. [image] The original version of CoRE Has now been replaced by a new version, WebCoRE, which moves the data entry to a web interface. This allows for flexibility and an architecture that requires more memory than is av…

[nathancu (Nathan Curtis)]

You may also want to look at @bangali and his Rooms Manager Smart app: https://community.smartthings.com/t/rooms-manager-smartapps-and-rooms-occupancy-dth-smarter-lighting-with-rules-driven-lighting-thermostat-routines-now-with-window-shade-control

It will allow you to assign occupancy states to ‘rooms’ based on a number of options then do various automation rules based on those states.

[jauntwotree]

So I’m in a similar boat. I thought SmartLighting would work, but apparently it may not:

I have a simple motion sensor and a zigbee light bulb. If the bulb is already on, I’d like to ignore anything and everything else; if the bulb is off and it’s night time, and motion sensor detects motion turn bulb on for 2 minutes. Can this be accomplished in anything besides WebCore? I’ve setup the basics in Webcore and it looks really powerful, but I would hope something as simplistic as this could be accomplished in SmartThings.

As a follow-up, is there any way to essentially display the results of a webpage in a smart tile? Maybe like a TV guide for a few channels?