# Lights on with motion and button press
**URL:** https://community.homey.app/t/lights-on-with-motion-and-button-press/137712
**Category:** Flows
**Created:** [June 6, 2025, 11:19am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/lights-on-with-motion-and-button-press/137712 "2025-06-06T11:19:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@J273](https://community.homey.app/u/J273)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2025, 11:19am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/lights-on-with-motion-and-button-press/137712/1 "2025-06-06T11:19:32Z")
I have my hue lights setup so with motion in a certain room they activate at a different brightness depending on what time of day it is.
At midnight until 4am I only have them come on a a 10% brightness as a night light. All lights are motion activated, I’ve added a physical switch to my kitchen lights which I have a flow to turn the lights on at a 100% brightness but once I activate the motion sensor they dim back down to the 10%. What’s the best way of setting a flow to stop the lights activating with motion once the buttons pressed?
Thanks
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### Author:  [@Rogier\_Verheugen](https://community.homey.app/u/Rogier_Verheugen)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2025, 11:53am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/lights-on-with-motion-and-button-press/137712/2 "2025-06-06T11:53:38Z")
Hi @J273
Are you Dutch? No? Then use Google Lens to translate
Rogier
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### Author:  [@J273](https://community.homey.app/u/J273)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2025, 12:15pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/lights-on-with-motion-and-button-press/137712/3 "2025-06-06T12:15:33Z")
Thank you Rogier
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### Author:  [@Kathy](https://community.homey.app/u/Kathy)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2025, 4:50am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/lights-on-with-motion-and-button-press/137712/4 "2025-06-20T04:50:55Z")
The motion sensor still triggers because it doesn’t know the button was pressed. Try setting a condition in your flow that checks if the button was used; this way, motion won’t change the light if the button has already turned it on.
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### Author:  [@dsdevries](https://community.homey.app/u/dsdevries)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2025, 9:51am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/lights-on-with-motion-and-button-press/137712/5 "2025-10-14T09:51:50Z")
@J273
I had the exact same issues as you and I just created an advanced tutorial that might solve your problems as well. By using a Virtual Motion Trigger, you can simply disable the autonomous flow by disabling the Virtual Motion Trigger before you dim the lights to its desired Brightness. I Also use a circadian zone for all my lights. I use its night mode and the manual mode to keep dimming autonomously but with different values for different times of the day as well.
> [@\[HOW TO\] Gain full control over Zone Activity using Motion Sensors (PIR) and Virtual Motion Triggers](https://community.homey.app/t/advanced-flow-for-full-control-over-zone-activity-using-motion-sensors-pir-and-virtual-motion-triggers/144082):
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> Introduction This is not a guide on how to implement a specific use case, but rather a framework that will give you full control over zone activity. Many flows like turning on/off lights could be done much simpler. However, when my personal flows became more complex, I ran into a lot of caveats and quirks that caused me to rethink how I work with motion sensors. I came up with this system which allowed me to solve all the bugs I ran into and I would like to share it with all of you. The problem…
This is how I completely tied it into my home together with presence:
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### Author:  [@J273](https://community.homey.app/u/J273)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2025, 5:24pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/lights-on-with-motion-and-button-press/137712/6 "2025-10-14T17:24:53Z")
Thankyou, will have a look.