I have a room I don’t use very often. I’ve got it set up to turn on the lights in the room when my motion detector detects something. It then turns off after a minute of no detection. All good.
However, for the times I decide to hang out in that room I want to keep the lights on. Now I could get up and do a little dance every minute to keep the lights going. But, I prefer not to use that method.
I could manually turn off the motion detection. Again, I’d rather somehow automate it.
I wanted to create a Smartthings routine that I could then evoke through Google Home to disable but it looks like you can’t create actions on motion detection devices via Smartthings routines.
Any idea how I could make this happen? I’m open to any thoughts.
Create a virtual switch called “Motion disabled” in SmartThings. Use it as precondition (off) in your SmartThings motion routines that control the lights.
If the switch is on, the routine won’t run because the precondition is not met. If it is off, it will. You can use voice commands to turn it on or off.
A mmWave presence sensor would have also done the trick for this use case. If you wan’t to go down the virtual device road, I also have this driver that has virtual switches, sensors, doors, etc.