Insteon Motion Sensor

[vdenis3399]

Good afternoon,

Here below my program (Sans titre) to control my Insteon Motion Sensor (2842-222 v.41).

Jumpers of the motion sensor ; 1 [Open] Sensitivity 2 [Open] Disable LED 3 [Open] Night-Only mode 4 [Open] On-Only mode 5 [Closed] Remote management

But now I have updated my ISY994 to 5.0.14 & the system do not turn off the light if the : WAIT is more than 1 minute. Less or equal to 1 minute : lights turn on & off.

I have another motion sensor but the version are 2842-222 v.44 & I have no problem. Is it possible the version of the Motion Sensor can be the source of the problem with the 5.0.14 ?

Thanks.

[kclenden]

I don't know what the timeout is on the older motion sensor, but my guess is that the motion sensor timeout is kicking in after 1 minute, turning the motion sensor off.  This would cause the IF to be reevaluated and the ELSE being run.  I think you want to use IF 'Mouv. Garage - Sensor' is switched On instead of IF 'Mouv. Garage - Sensor' Status is On.

Edit: Just noticed the "3.0" in the Timeout dropdown.  While this would seem to indicate that the timeout on the MS should be 3 minutes, I'm not sure the ISY always knows the internal values of sensors.  You could try waking the MS up and then setting the timeout value to something longer to ensure that what the ISY is displaying for Timeout matches what has been set internally in the MS.  Then your program above should allow a longer WAIT.  Even if that works, I'd use "switched On" instead of "Status".

[paulbates]

I wrote my motion sensor program as @kclenden advised for my back floodlights. It will start once the motion is detected and then the Wait can be adjusted as I want.

You can extend the battery life and cut down on Insteon traffic by changing the settings of the motion sensor to "send on commands only" when writing the program as above. The MS has to be open and put in set mode however.

Paul

[vdenis3399]

Thank you very much kclenden & paulbates.

Your solution seems to be good.