Unable to turn off light manually, lights up by motion sensor

[ronniez]

I have a fibaro motion sensor watching a door. It does turn on a light if it is dark and motion is detected, this works great. When I turn off this light manually with the switch that is close to the door, the light is automatically lit again coz the Fibaro sensor notice motion again. This quite annoying as I can only use the phone to turn this light off when I'm out of range of the sensor.

[elmortero]

Since you do not mention how (or if) this is scripted, a general approach (to be applied in your script)
If motion detected
and light is off
and last change to light > 5 minutes
then
turn on light

This way you can use the switch and the light will not turn on unless you are already long gone

[DaanT]

Hi Ronniez,

It's unclear to me when you want fibaro to take control again over the lights. After midnight, after you come home (disable alarm), after several minutes or any other way maybe?

Kind regards
Daan

[ronniez]

Some answers to the questions:
I tried Blocky to set it up. I have used a user variable which was to be set by the blocky function set for x seconds. This user var should prevent turning the light on again. but it seems the parameter is not set when the switch is used.
The fibaro has to take control over the lights again after approx 30 seconds after using the switch to turn the light off.

So normal flow should be as following, When it is dark and I enter the room the light switch on automatically, when I leave the room I switch it off myself, if getting in again within 30 seconds light stays off and when I'm still in the room (and move) after 30 seconds, the light goes on automatically again.

[DaanT]

Then I would use a switch to act as a delay.

IF "switch lights to off"
Do
- Lights off
- delay motion on
- delay switch on
- delay switch off after 30 seconds

IF "motion = off" - You need this because if you walk out it will go to on, and will stay like that for some time.Need to wait for it to switch off again
Do
- delay motion off

IF "motion = on" and "delays switch = off" and "delay motion off"
Do
- Lights on

However there is a blind spot here. when walking back in, even after the 30seconds delay. If the motion sensor is still not reset to off and it sees you it will stay on and will not trigger the lights on event.

Kind regards
Daan

[ronniez]

@DaanT, I assume that is then to be arranged via a lua script or so. Unfortunatally I don't have experience with that (yet). Have to dive into some documentation.

[DaanT]

No not at all, I also do everything in blockly. That's the reason i structured my answer the way I did, for me it almost looks like a blockly event.
Just create 3 events and maybe try to group them by assigning numbers before the title: like 11, 12 and 13

[ronniez]

@DaanT, I have tried it, and it is working. In my previous attempts I had a lot of the same things but I guess that combining the "delay switch off after 30 seconds" in the first step does do the trick.
Now I only have to figure out why it is a bit slow on turning on the light.

[DaanT]

Hi Ronniez,

Which type if smart lights or switches are you using?

Daan

[ronniez]

I'm using the double NEO Coolcam Z-wave switch, in combination with the Fibaro Motion Sensor.
I have changed some of the parameters on the Motion Sensor and the reaction time is much shorter now, so it looks pretty well.