OK, this should be really simple, but I’m still struggling with this… The scenario is simple: Walk into bathroom - motion is triggered (Aqara Motion Sensor) and lights turn on. When no movement has been sensed for 5 minutes → turn off lights. So my flows work as long as I’m in the bathroom for l…

To achieve what you want, you need the app “Chronograph”. Two flows are then necessary: Flow 1: When: The zone becomes active And: The brightness is less than xx Then: Switch on light Start or replace chronograph timer (name) with a length of xx minutes Flow 2: When: Chronograph Timer (n…

[image] [Simple] Lights turning on/off based on motion Flows Simple flow for turning lights on and off based on motion What to use Timer app. In this case i used the Countdown app Motion sensor. Used a Neo Coolcam pir v1 in this case. A light to switch on and off. Use…

Sorry @Undertaker and @Peter_Kawa , but in my opinion your answers are not very helpful, because the real problem is not solved. I myself have two rooms in use with “Becomes active” and “Is inactive for x minutes”, and they work fine. For example this flow: [image] However, I have NEO Coolcam mo…

Zone activity puts me in the dark sometimes. That’s the odd part. It does not function all the time, but sometimes it does as we should expect from zone activity. So I rather use the timer option, then the light does not turn off when the inactivity time has been reached while there’s still movemen…

Unfortunately, I have not had good experiences with the zone activity in terms of reliability either. Yes, actually the flows described above should work, but they don’t with him ! My example with the Chronograph app always works.

My flows have been working for months without any problems. So if your flows doesn’t work as they should, did you contacted Athom? Based on the description it seems that is a reproducible error. Therefore, I suspect that the problem is with the Aqara motion sensor. For example, I know that the lux …

Have also tried with the (Aeotec) Smartthings motion sensor and the Aeotec Multisensor 6 - same problem. I’ll try more tonight. . . My current theory is that Homey’s inactive card doesn’t actually check motion but only change in state This again means that as long as a motion sensor (of any kin…

Could you try the following in your setup here? Activate the zone with movement. Wait 15 seconds and move again (so that you are well within the 30 second cancellation delay) Wait another 15 seconds and move again Wait another 15 seconds and move again Wait 15 seconds - if the light turns off now,…

What I already did is, I created this test flow: [image] I activated the zone and I moved continuously around for about 2 minutes, so that the motion sensor was activated (yellow exclamation mark) all the time. The light didn’t switched off. After the approximate 2 minutes, I left the zone and o…

Hi @Tom_Erik , today I did your test and the Zone Activation works as it should. After the last movement it takes approx. 90 seconds for the light to go out (30 s cancellation time + 60 s inactivity). :man_shrugging:t3:

Struggling with simple Active / Inactive zone settings

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Peter_Kawa September 14, 2022, 11:28am 3

I also use Chronograph instead of Countdown

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Struggling with simple Active / Inactive zone settings

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