Yesterday I converted most of my old Lights & Switches shortcut apps to Smart Lights. Last night, at 3:30 AM, my bedroom lights came on from motion, caused by Smart Lights. The app has a mode of restriction of only turning on during Day mode (same as Home mode), but it was Night mode at the time.
Ticket filed, but here we are still with mode restrictions failing in their brand new app.
Itās not just Smart Lights. Mode restrictions are failing all over and support knows about it, for everyone else who has the issue just file a ticket so that it can get into the high priority queue.
Yup, Iāve been having mode ignorance issues for the last two weeks or so.
Been having the exact same issue as @bravenel with motion activated lightsā¦
Ticket filed.
Iāve had the same issues, but with my motion setting off Sonos and drop cam pics. Put a ticket in over a month ago and sent additional information since.
I wanted to take advantage of the local processing so I too converted my lights this weekend to the new SL app after migrating to V2, but after two days of struggle, I had to (re)convert all of my lights to @slagle ās director app. The Smart Lights app integration with motion sensors is just unacceptable! Hey @slagle any chance your good olā app might one day run locally?
The current mode ignore āfeatureā isnāt exclusively pooched in the Smart Lights appā¦, Other automations that I wasnāt able to convert to Smart Lights are also being affected.
The biggest issue I have with the Smart Lights is the missing delay option when only triggering device off with motion stop.
My biggest issue is that lights go off even if there is continuing motion in the room. Oh and then it takes about a minute to retrigger. Had a ticket filed and the resolution was: there is a known bug with SL, but Iād be glad to file a bug report with our engineers for future correction. I told them that @slagle can fix it, but they didnāt laugh. Tim, do you know why they didnāt like my joke?
There have been intermittent problems with motion events falling into a crack somewhere. Itās fairly transient. I had some failures several days ago, but none since. It happens from time to time. Some people are getting bit worse than others.
Has this been addressed? Because I have a motion trigger setup that should be onyl active from 12am-6am, but itās going on well after that - and when it does, it loses the āturn off after 5 minutesā setting. Definitely not optimal.
You might try using Rule Machine instead of Smart Lighting. Bugs are fixed in Rule Machine, while ST dithers around with Smart Lighting. Full disclosure: Rule Machine will not run locally on a V2 hub, while Smart Lighting does.