New Insteon Motion Sensor 2420M

[GreyFox]

I have just installed the above-captioned device, and it is not clear how to properly use the Administrative Console to manage this device. Specifically, when I added the device and it properly registered, there are 3 new items/icons in the My Lighting section of the Administrative Console. One is labeled Mud Room Motion Detector-Sens, one is labeled Mud Room Motion Detector-Dusk, and one is labeled Mud Room Motion Detector-Low (I entered the room definition). So my first question is why does a motion detector get 3 lines as opposed to a SwitchLinc, for example? My second question is are there functions specific to each of these three entries? If I click on the Set Options button, my options are the same regardless of which of the 3 items/icons I have selected. By the way, the icon for a motion detector is totally unlike the other icons in this window. Can you shed some light, please. Thanks.

 

Gary

[LeeG]

With such a long device name the meaningful part of each node name is missing.

 

Sensor is the node that reflects motion sensed.

Dusk/Dawn is the node that reflect when the environment is Dark.

Low Battery is the node that reflects a low battery condition.

 

Not sure if the full node names are actually truncated or just not displayed. Move the vertical separator between the node names and right side display to the right. If the full names are not there I suggest picking a shorter name for the motion sensor.

[GreyFox]

Thanks for the clarification. I now have a new issue. The motion detector is supposed to be a scene controller the responder for which is a SwitchLinc 2477S. The SwitchLinc is controlling a pair of fluorescent lights, and it works just fine. I can toggle the switch on and off, and I can control it with the ISY. However, even though the motion detector sees motion (the red LED will flash), it does not send any signal to the SwitchLinc.

 

Both of these devices were added to My Lighting in the ISY. I then created the scene, clicked and dragged the SwitchLinc as a Responder onto the scene, and clicked and dragged the sensor line of the motion detector entry to the scene as a controller. I guess I am missing something, but I don't know what it is. Can anyone enlighten me?

[LeeG]

Was the Motion Sensor manually placed into linking mode with the Set button when the Scene was created?

 

That is necessary to keep the Motion Sensor awake so the appropriate link records can be written into the Motion Sensor.

 

Does the Motion Sensor Red LED blink multiple times when it senses motion? This indicates a motion sensor responder did not ACK messages from the motion sensor.

[GreyFox]

LeeG, thanks for the reply. Indeed, I did the things you pointed out. And there is only a single LED flash. But it turns out that I guess I was being impatient as it appears to have started working perfectly after a while being left alone. Problem solved. Thank you very much.