# Motion: lights on for 3 minutes, if there is motion again within 3 minutes: set the timer again for 3 minutes **URL:** \ **Category:** Flows\ **Created:** [May 27, 2020, 3:06pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/motion-lights-on-for-3-minutes-if-there-is-motion-again-within-3-minutes-set-the-timer-again-for-3-minutes/30500 "2020-05-27T15:06:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![DirkG](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/dirkg/32/118897_2.png) [@DirkG](https://community.homey.app/u/DirkG)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2020, 3:27pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/motion-lights-on-for-3-minutes-if-there-is-motion-again-within-3-minutes-set-the-timer-again-for-3-minutes/30500/2 "2020-05-27T15:27:11Z")
Here are few hints… > [@Auto lights on and off when in or out of room tips](https://community.homey.app/t/auto-lights-on-and-off-when-in-or-out-of-room-tips/30154/14): > > Hmhm. Yeah. I now use day and night time for that (not lux). But yeah, timer is something I guess would be best. Hm > [@Tutorial - Advanced automatic light control with flows](https://community.homey.app/t/tutorial-advanced-automatic-light-control-with-flows/21877): > > Hi guys, I thought it was finally time to share my flows that I use to automatically control my lights. The setup I have is a bit more advanced than the suggestions I have seen on this forum, which is the reason for this tutorial. Some features of my setup: Automatically turn on and off lights based on motion (doh!) Only turn lights on when it’s dark Configuration of various scenes (e.g. Normal scene, Movie scene, Dinner scene, Romantic scene etc) Memory ability that will remember the brightn… --- _[View the full topic](https://community.homey.app/t/motion-lights-on-for-3-minutes-if-there-is-motion-again-within-3-minutes-set-the-timer-again-for-3-minutes/30500)._