Hi all, I was wondering, how do you set up lights to turn on automatically when you enter the room and to turn of when you leave it? What do you guys use? I use a group for all the motion sensors and to let a timer start once the motion sensor is turned off. When that runs out it turns the lights…

Take a look at the timer app. It has all functionality of switching on/of in one card

Actually you can use the Zones feature. No need for timers to get this done. Homey knows when a zone is active if you have motion sensors or contact sensors there.

And how long the light stays on depends on how long the motion sensor(s) remains active (cancellation delay)?

No. It depends on what timeout setting you use for the zone which counts after the sensor became inactive.

Okay, got it. But you can only set the timeout setting in relatively coarse time steps. With a timer (e.g. the chronograph app) you can choose the time freely. Which devices activate the zone? Only motion and door/window sensors, or others as well?

I use fibaro motion sensors and door/window sensors with this feature. They just need to be assigned to the zone/room. I control lights and multiroom audio with this functionality. Also found that you do not really need that fine grained timeouts for this usacase. If you want instant person trackin…

Thank you all for this answer. Okay. So timer app is a good way. Hm. I didn’t think of zones yet. Good one! I’m going to move soon, so there is a lot of potential there, heheh.

AliExpress: Aqara Motion Sensor. Works like a charm in combination with Zones!

Where can I find that setting? I searched in the flow and settings. EDIT: Found it in the flow. Zone inactive for… X

Auto lights on and off when in or out of room tips

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Rocodamelshekima May 21, 2020, 12:44pm 8

Tip 3 !

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