# Outdoor luminance sensor

**URL:** <https://community.homey.app/t/outdoor-luminance-sensor/114806>\
**Category:** Questions & Help\
**Created:** [August 22, 2024, 11:37am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/outdoor-luminance-sensor/114806 "2024-08-22T11:37:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![Peter\_Kawa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/peter_kawa/32/173848_2.png) [@Peter\_Kawa](https://community.homey.app/u/Peter_Kawa)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2024, 4:01pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/outdoor-luminance-sensor/114806/6 "2024-08-22T16:01:27Z")

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> [@Kim\_Nielsen](#):
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> Have experienced though that my Ikea sensors doesn’t allways update on changes

I see. Sometimes the value did not change enough for the threshold.  
For some sensors the minimal value change is adjustable.

2nd, there’s no real detection system for sensors “keeping quiet”.  
It’s also possible they’re on the edge of their range, or your, or close neighbour’s, 2.4GHz wifi is interfering sometimes.

Here’s a nice script with which you can check the last update status of (certain) sensors:

> [@A script to check sensor last update](https://community.homey.app/t/a-script-to-check-sensor-last-update/63142/25):
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> Updated script I posted above - added counter of non responding devices - eg, in case you would like to initiate some action based on number of not-responding devices - please note this is the version I’m using, so feel free to change relevant variables below the section // Filter devices to check Changelog : 0.1 - update - converting notReportingCount to a number - if you used previous version of script, delete tag by await tag(‘notReportingCount’, null);\* 0.2 - added filtering based on dev…

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