Help with a simple lights on by motion at night

[Hallamnet 17]

Evening all. 

 

I have had a HC2 now for a while and always used blocky scenes. You could say i have been living the blocky life for the last 5+ years!

 

I am starting to get frustrated with the lights/rgbw's going off and staying off when there is a lots of movement in the room. I have been advised that LUA is the way forward and will be able to get round this issue. 

 

So the way i currently work my scenes for auto lights depending solely of motion and time of day is per the attached screen shots.

 

Can anyone help me out with a script that i could user per room to accomplish this?

 

I have found a script to turn the lights on when motion is detected and every time motion is detected, the timer will reset (and work 90% of the time) but if i use this script, the lights would be coming on during daylight and i do not want this. I just want them to come on when the time is past sunset and before sunrise. 

 

Every room of my house has a Fibaro motion sensor and Fibaro RGBW or dimmer modal installed and would love this to work properly.  

 

If anyone could help me out, that would be ace!

 

Thanks,

 

Hal 

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[amatt 5]

I had a similar ask last year. take a look at this. you will have to modify the code but it works really well for me.

 

 

[Hallamnet 17]

Thanks for the reply amatt.

 

I have been playing with the code and learned a fair bit on the way but got my lights auto turning on when motion is detected and when the global variable Auto_Lights = Night. 

 

All is working ok and will continue to test tomorrow when there is a lot more movement around the house. 

 

I did see the following in the code but could not work out what it was for: - 

 

local function inArray(needle, haystack)
    for i,n in ipairs(haystack) do
        if (tonumber(needle)==tonumber(n)) then
            return true;
        end
    end

 

Also, as I have only one sensor in the kitchen, I have listed it twice as it was needed for the script. When I have some time tomorrow, I will go through it to see if I can reduce it down to 1 sensor in the script without using the average lux. 

 

Thanks again for the reply and will chat again sometime soon:-) 

 

All the best,

 

Hal 

 

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Edited December 9, 2018 by Hallamnet