Hi, I’m new to this and like to have som help to get started. Want to turn lights on when motion is trigged and keep them on when someone is in the room, but when they leave the room the light should turn of after 3 min, don’t’ understand how to do the countdown. Thanks

[image] LasseRy: light wont turn off after the zone have been inactive When you use the “zone inactive for x minutes” card, it is buggy. Not for everyone, but I’ve had the same issue as you mentioned. I use “zone is inactive” + Chronograph timers with almost no issues: [image] The Flow Ex…

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Hi try watch this video, it very good and your lights will work well . Works using the countdown app as shown in the video or the chronograph app, which is what I use. [Motion sensors the right way - Smarter Homey]

@Jim_McAtear Thanks, it was exactly that I was looking for.

Hi Jim, Tom here. Keep in mind that a hue sensor only reports the lux value every couple of minutes! This is because the battery will be empty soon. So for this i use a sensor that can use a power adapter. Then you can set the report time to seconds if you want. Furthermore keep in mind that if you …

Hi Tom . Yes I use zone became active and zone became inactive for in my flow for my living room lights.really need to use a presence sensor instead of motion one.

Hi again, Is there any other timers that I can use instead of the CountDown? Like to try other ways to do the same thing and see if it works better. For me the CountDown works almost every time, but sometimes the light wont turn off after the zone have been inactive, so therefore I would like to t…

@Peter_Kawa Thanks I’m starting all over and is trying your suggestion with “zone is inactive” and Chronograph, so far it has done what I want. - Thanks

Which presence sensor works fine for this situation ?

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Please look at fe [Tutorial] Simple movement-triggered automatic light with zone activity cards (just 2 flows!)

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