Motion triggered Lighting

[Rafal R 1]

Dear Fibaro,

 

after spending countless of hours on setting up the light switching by motion detection, I simply give up. What I have is:

- HCL Lite

- Fibaro motion-sensor-gen5

- Fibaro double-switch-2-gen5

 

I simply want to switch light on connected to Fibaro Double Switch when Motion Sensor detects movement. After following all the guides I could find, using Magic Scenes or graphic blocks, changing Detector advanced parameters, countless tries but nothing is reliable. Usually scene do not work, or the light is on all the time, or light switches on after 15-30 seconds. Usually I am doing these scenes:

SCENE 1

IF <DETECTOR> = ARMED AND BREACHED

THEN

 LIGHT TURN ON

 

SCENE2

IF <DETECTOR> = ARMED AND SAFE

THEN

 LIGHT TURN OFF DELAY (some time)

 

Funny part is if I run the scene 1 manually, the light ALWAYS switches on, even when there is NO movement. I am completely confused.

 

Do you have any guide which actually works? I don't understand why doing this simple action is so extremely difficult and time consuming.

 

thanks

Rafal

[jimicr 90]

Just use "breached" armed and breached is when the sensor is armed for alarm:

if <detector> == breached 0s

then

<Light> turnon

And

<Light> turnoff xx seconds

 

Hope this helps.

 

Jim

[wpeeters 30]

and the reason why it always works if you run the scene manually is because a manual run doesn't consider the conditions (the IF). It only execute the 'then'.

[Rafal R 1]

Thank you for such quick responses, guys!

 

I understand the manual RUN behaviour now. Cheers.

 

Alright, as suggested, I configured the scene. attached on the picture. When I click SAVE, it switches the light on for 30 seconds. After that when I enter the area where the sensor is, nothing happens

 

Another thing is the alarm logs. I have attached them also. They are really weird. The sensor becomes SAFE after 2 hours or never in some cases. I tried to wake up the sensor, but that did not change anything.

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Edited December 28, 2016 by Rafal R

[Rafal R 1]

Ok. I found something. When I changed the wake up of the sensor to 10 seconds. Everything started to work close to as expected. There is still some 10 second delay before the light switches on. But you can see the sensor log, the safe and breached states are much more responsive. However, I don't get it. This is a motion detector which by default wakes up every 2 hours. Does this mean it recognised the motion every 2 hours??? Shouldn't it send the signal when the motion is detected?

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[Rafal R 1]

I have just reconfigured the sensor completely. Its behavior completely changed! I am really confused, but it seems that fixed the problem for now. Let me do some testing.

[jimicr 90]

Do you have the sensor in all default settings? (the button is blue when at default and gray when not).

default for parameter1 = 15, 2 =2, then 3 on 2 and 4 on 3, 6 on 5 ect. be sure when you change and save the settings you need to wake up the sensor (opening the back lit and pressing the button 3 times so the light lightsup blue). else you'll have to wait a while for the wake up cycle of the sensor for your settings to become active.

 

Good luck!! 

[Rafal R 1]

Thank you, jimicr.

 

I resetted the device to the default settings before, but that did not help. It seems the first registration was incorrect/faulty. Full reconfiguration worked perfectly. The device is awesome now

[jimicr 90]

Glad it worked out for you.