Motion Detector acting strangly

[Jgdavis14]

For months I've had a motion detector in the garage that turns on the lights (via togglelinc) and then turns them off after 2 minutes.  Several other things involved like time of day and if there is continued motion.  It's worked great for months.   Recently the lights always seem to be on.   I decided to disable the program and just let the motion detector work on it's own.   Checking my log in the last 24 hours I've had over 1500 entries with 1400 of them being the sensor doing an on/of routine.  I've attached a small screen shot of the last few minutes.   Also a shot of the motion detector's settings.    Any ideas what the heck I've got going on here?

 

 

[larryllix]

Racoon in your garage?

 

 

Your off cycle always lasts about 3 seconds. Are you sure you don't have the darkness sensor being used?

[stusviews]

A low battery can cause that.

[Xathros]

I can second the low battery as the culprit.  Just had one in my basement do exactly the same thing.  Low battery node never triggered either.

 

-Xathros

[Jgdavis14]

Raccoon not possible.   Place closed up and it still reacts the same.

Would the darkness sensor cause it to keep checking it's status?  And if it's dark, it is supposed to turn on the lights.

I do have a program to tell me if the battery is low....but if Zathros said his didn't trigger, that just may be it.    I'll try the battery and see what happens.

[Jgdavis14]

^{It looks like it WAS the battery.    Replaced it with a new lithium and all is well.   It irritates me that the battery sensor never did anything!}

[LeeG]

What does the Low Batt Program do when Low Batt is indicated?

 

When the ISY is rebooted the Low Batt node is reset to Off.

[larryllix]

Perhaps for ALL battery operated devices we need detectors like this?

If
        Control 'Gathering Room / Motion.GathRm' is switched On
     Or Control 'Gathering Room / Dark.GathRm' is switched On
     Or Control 'Gathering Room / Dark.GathRm' is switched Off
 
Then
        Wait  26 hours 
        $MS_Battery_Status  = $cGATHERING_ROOM
 
Else
   - No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action')
 

andb $MS_Battery_Status ${var.2.14}  is a State variable so the following programme should event trigger.

If
        $MS_Battery_Status is not 0
 
Then
        Wait  5 seconds
        Send Notification to 'Text  Larry' content 'MS Battery Low'
        Wait  5 seconds
        Send Notification to 'eMail Larry' content 'MS Battery Low'
        Wait  12 hours 
        Send Notification to 'Text  Larry' content 'MS Battery Low'
        Wait  5 seconds
        Send Notification to 'eMail Larry' content 'MS Battery Low'
        Wait  30 minutes 
        Run Program 'MS Battery Low' (Else Path)
 
Else
        $MS_Battery_Status  = 0
 

Note $cGATHERING_ROOM is a constant defined by myself and is further used in the notification

 

 Alert! MS Battery Low

${sys.date} @${sys.time24}
Detected in room ${var.2.14}.

10=RecRm,12=AftBr,13=EveBr
14=Libr,16=Util,19=LLand
20=GathRm,21=MBR,29=MudRm
30=Shop