Motion sensors the right way - Smarter Homey
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- čas přidán 6. 08. 2024
- In this video I'll explain how to use motion sensors on their best. It will make your smart home way better and will gain a higher WAF factor.
Smart homes are there to help us, not to anoy us!
In this video I made use of:
- The hue without bridge homey app
- The countdown Homey app
- A Phillips hue bulb
- A Phillips hue motion sensor
▬ Contents of this video ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
00:00 - Intro
01:23 - Most basic flow
03:00 - Make motion sensor reliable
06:50 - Take sunlight in account
10:30 - Dim lights before they turn off
Thank you. I am new to Homey and this was quite helpful. I hope you start making more frequent videos to help us noobs out.
Next videos coming this weekend
Excellent ideas. Looking forward to seeing more of your advanced flows.
Will upload them soon
Great to see these types of videos on Homey!! I'm experimenting with mmWave motion sensors myself. Next item on my list to buy is the Sonoff mmWave motion sensor :):)
Got a aqars fp2 here! :)
Me too😀
Great stuff, Menno. Not dashboard related, but I love seeing how you solved some of the common problems when using motion sensors. I am not controlling lights with a motion sensor because of these issues. But I am going to give it a try based on your flow. Thank you. Keep up the good work.
Glad to hear!!! I'll be trying to make videos for homey and hdashboards. Hoping to share some nice tricks! And solutions for common problems.
Greate thanks
Thanks, great explanation !
Thank you for watching😇
Great video. Just working on setting Hdashboard up, and i think it's very very good. Keep up the good work 👍🏼
Thanks
Very helpful thanks. Great explanation 👍
You're welcome!
Hi Menno, nice video mate! a comment and a question. Why pause the timer and not stop them? and could you expand this flow with a physical button override? My kids sometimes want to leave the light on in the "overpass ;)" for an hour or so when going to sleep.
Stopping or pausing results in similar behavior both are fine indeed :). I was about to make another video on how to turn on/off automations. The easiest way is by using a book variable. That you can create on the top. Use an extra card to check that bool. But maybe it's better to make a video about it.
Goeie uitleg!
Dankjewel!
Nice video Menno! I did learn something new. But I expected you to demonstrate the use of Zones (active and inactive) instead of motion sensors. I have learned some time ago it's better to use zones for this. This way when changing motion sensors you don't have to repair the flows. Another thing you didn't mention is that most motion sensors themselves already have a build in time-out. For example Aqara motion sensors (and I believe also the Philips ones) have a minimal detection time of 60 seconds. Meaning only after 60 seconds the motion sensor signals there is no motion anymore.
Gonna make a separate video about zones. The issue with motion sensors might be that i have connected mine without a bridge and don't have a hue app to configure them. Thanks great input!
I stopped using zones since i found out that sometimes they were not correctly updated by Homey. So I stopped trusting them.@@HDashboards
This method I control at least the flow.
@@quakerix totally agree
@@quakerixI don't recognize this problem.
Nice! can you make the light dim slowely, like fading out, instead of a step down from 100% to 30%, and from 30% to 0%?
Yes with the loops app for instance.
But I must say most lights automatically fade
Great video Menno! Im gonna try it right away! Also curious why not use 'zone gets active' in stead of 'motion alarm turned on'.
Partly i wanted to share the concept no matter if you use homey or home assistant. Also this concept is pretty easy to translate to zones. I still want to make a whole video about zones.
Is there anyway to make this into a HomeKit automation?
I'm not familiar with home kit
I don't understand why or how the homey apps are not tied to the manufacturers apps...
They can use the JavaScript SDK that manufacturers sometimes provide.