tporada Posted December 10, 2023 Share Posted December 10, 2023 I cannot get the Insteon Motion detector 2844-222 to work reliably/consistently with EISY and could use suggestions. I've tweaked the OPTIONs many times and no longer certain of their defaults. Any help would be appreciated. Link to comment
Techman Posted December 10, 2023 Share Posted December 10, 2023 Exactly what's not working? What controller are you using. What is its firmware and UI version? Being that's a battery operated device you'll need to have it within range of a dual band device, or close to your controller. Link to comment
DNewkirk Posted December 10, 2023 Share Posted December 10, 2023 I recently installed one of these (albeit on an ISY 994i 5.3.4) and only changed a few of the parameters. Looking at the options on mine now, this is what they show: Program Lock: not checked LED, Key Beep, Send Cleanup Messages and Send Cleanup Errors: all checked LED Brightness: 0 Off Button Timeout: I changed this to 300 minutes, but I think the default was around 1545 if I remember correctly. I believe that this is how long the detector waits to turn motion back on if you manually turn if off with the button on top of the unit. Motion Nodes: One Condition: Always Report: On & Off Sensitivity: I changed this to 255, but I think it started at around 35. It doesn't actually seem to make a difference what it is as far as I can tell. Timeout: 120 Seconds Light Polling Interval: 15420 Hysteresis: 5 Day Threshold: 80 (31%) Night Threshold: 64 (25%) Hot Not Hot: 74.4 F (69.0 F battery) Hot: 86.1 F (80.5 F battery) Cold Not Cold: 67.1 F (61.8 F battery) Cold: 69.3 F (64.0 F battery) Battery Nodes: None Low Threshold: 133 Misc. Nodes Motion Enabled: One Tamper: One I don't think it makes a difference, but my motion detector is not on battery as I power it with a 5V USB power supply. I only have experience with the one, but my motion detector seems to be a bit flaky. The sensitivity varies significantly from one day to another. Also, I have a program that when I turn on the garage lights from the switch, it sets the Motion Enabled node to off, and when I turn the lights off again, it sets the Motion Enabled node back to on. This is just to keep the motion light from going on and off while I am working in the garage. However, I have noticed that it takes quite awhile, maybe 5-10 minutes, before the motion detector will again function to turn on and off its light after I have toggled the enabled mode. Hope this helps. Link to comment
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