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Lights ON until no more activity


Barry Kripke

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(I'm a n00b. Using a Home Center 2)

 

I have a space where I want any one of three (motion) sensors to be able to switch lights on, and when not more activity has been sense for some time, switch them off. 

I'd like to extend it such that the lights only come on between sunset and sunrise. 

 

I have created 4x scenes, 3x Turn On, 1x Turn Off.

 

The logic I am using is:

I created a Global Variable (called LastOnTime) to track the last activation/on time. 

All of the motion sensors trigger a scene that turn the lights on; and set the LastOnTime to os.time() - I have three copies of that scene.

I created one more scene that is triggered off a timer; then if [os.time() - LastOnTime] > 600 turn the lights off. 

 

The scripts are below. 

 

Questions I have are:

  1. is this a good way of doing it? is there a better way?
  2. the timer is not working (the scenes are not triggered). I found this 'hack' somewhere in this forum.
  3. how do I put something here to check os.time() > [sunset] ?

 

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The On scenes look like: 

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The Off script looks like:

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For your 3rd point, a tip: You can create a block scene that turns on a light at sunset. Then convert the block scene to LUA (using the button in the block editor). Voila, you have the code you can add to your script.

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  • On 1/20/2022 at 2:51 AM, Tim__ said:

    For your 3rd point, a tip: You can create a block scene that turns on a light at sunset. Then convert the block scene to LUA (using the button in the block editor). Voila, you have the code you can add to your script.

    I created a variable; at sunrise it is set to 1, sunset it is set to 0.

    The the scenes check the value of that variable. 

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    Instead of creating so many scenes for such a simple action, I suggest to download and using  

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    Try it... no Lua code required....

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