i just spent the better part of 3 hours trying to get my motion sensor floodlights to work with the Micro Linc.

 

i could turn the lights on and off with the Isy, but i could not get the unit to tell what the motion detector was doing.

 

My setup was:

• Micro Linc was connected to the Neutral and the Line with a L1 going to the lights from the unit and the lights also connected to the Neutral.
• The Motion Sensor was hard wired to both the Direct Neutral and the Direct line to get power. The Traveler for the sensor was then connected to the Yellow Sense Wire on the Micolinc. (I also tried both Yellow and Purple at the end).
• I set the options in every possible configuration.

I thought maybe the motion sensor is not firing, so I took the Microlinc out of line and it works perfectly.

 

For the life of me, I don't know what I am missing here.

 

All I want to do is to have the micro tell me when the floods are on so I can have a light in the house notify me.

 

What am i missing?

Is this motion light one of those dual bright units?

yes but i tried in dual bright and none dual bright settings

On the smarthome forum search for dual bright. There is great information about wiring it all up.

 

 

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I believe even with Dual Bright turned off. The circuit doesn't drive the sense wire correctly.

Check the messages on the Smarthome Forums as Teken pointed out.

There maybe some threads on the new Insteon Forums also.

http://forum.insteon.com/

 

Dual-brites don't deploy, no matter the setting.