Lightnings turns on when garagedoor closes

If the motion sensor is activated the lights turn on. If the garage door opens the light turns on.
When there’s been no motion for 180 seconds the lights turn off. So far everythings is working.

But, if the lights are off and the garage door closes the light activates again.
When closing the garage door it pushes the rubber on the bottom of the door against the floor with one or two centimeters and then the garagedoor goes back up again those one or two centimeters. It calibrates the preasure put on the rubber every time.

So the magnetic sensor passes the sensor (sending a signal that it is closed) and then the magnetic sensor goes past the sensor when it’s calibrating the preasure (sending a signal that the garage door is open and the lights turn on). Then the garage door goes back to its closing position making the magnetic sensor and sensor to align again (sending a signal that the door is closed and to start the timer to turn of the lights)

Can you put som delay or something on the sensor so it does’nt turn on the light when closing/passing the sensor?

And when leaving the garage you sometimes manually turn off the lights. If the sensor see you in the garage doing that it turns the lights back on again. Is there a way around that aswell?

You could disable the Flow when the light turns off and then enable it again after a short delay.

Makes sure the trigger for the timeout complete that enables the Flow again is in a different Flow though.

Turn light off and disable the Flow

Enable the Flow after a short time after the light turns off

You could start a timer ‘garagedoor is closing’ of x(10?) seconds when the sensor alarm turns off.

WHEN
sensor alarm turns on
AND
timer ‘garagedoor is closing’ is NOT running
THEN
turn on garagelight

You could do the same with the light switch
Ignore movement while timer ‘garagelight turned off manually’ is running.

Im very new at this. Is there any chance that you can show me in pictures? :slight_smile:

The cards are in dutch

Button pressed once>> turn off light >> start timer

Motion detected >> ‘timer is running’ is false>> turn on light

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Thanks! :blush::+1:t3: