Kitchen lights - sometimes I need on for 30 secs and sometimes for 10 minutes

[jfitz 0]

Hi All

 

I am new to this forum and have found it greatly helpful. Still working my way through it. I can't wrote LUA script so I hope there is an easy fix to my question.

 

 

 

In my kitchen I have a 3kW relay and a motion detector. The light switch is in an out of the way place so I like to have the Motion Detector turn on the light when I go in for a brief moment.

 

When I go in for an extended period, I don’t want the light going on and off by the motion detector so I have set up the relay with Parameter 3 set to Manual Over-ride Enabled and Parameter 4 set to 1000s.

 

Both work great… if I don’t go into the kitchen. If I do go into the kitchen and I have turned the light on by the switch, the motion detector activates and takes over the light controls… that is it turns off the light by the parameter set on the motion detector (short Period). This short period is ussually whne i am fairly stationary and usually jsut as I am about to cut into a tomato

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Is there a way to set the Relay to disregard the motion detector if I have pressed the light switch first… trying to get the light to stay on for 15 minutes.

 

I am using HC2 with the latest update. Attaching screen shots if that helps any. Note also that for some reason I get 2 parameter 14's on the motion detector.

 

Any suggestions would be grateful.

 

John

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[hoomee 22]

Hi, you're using associations, right? Motion sensor sends a "switch off" command to group 1?

I'm quite a newbie as well, but if I were you I would try to set up a scene using graphic blocks with a variable (say: "persons in the kitchen") set to 1 every time you switch the light on manually.

Motion sensor should then always check that variable and switch the light off only if its value is 0. AFAIK it should be possible to set the "expire time" of a variable. So you could set it to 1 for 15 minutes and reset to 0, after that time.

 

to sum up:

1. switching on the light manually runs the scene "persons in the kitchen" and sets a variable to 1.

2. motion sensor each time when motion is detected checks the variable and if its value is 0 the light is switched off after a while.

 

I have never tried anything similar, though.

cheers

[jfitz 0]

Hi newbie

 

Many thanks for your post. I will give that a try and let you know if it works

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