Program help, please

[mikek]

I'm looking for some ideas on the simplest and cleanest and most reliable way to do the following:

I have a motion sensor on my porch (https://www.getzooz.com/zse70-outdoor-motion-sensor/). When motion is detected, I have a program that turns on the porch lights (fast on, night only) and also sends me a notification.

I have the dimmer switch for those lights right near the porch door (https://www.getzooz.com/zooz-zen77-s2-dimmer/).

I want to utilize the double-tap feature of the switch to enable/disable the motion sensor programmatically (via parameter 1) when I am going in and out of the porch door so it ignores my presence. 

I'm not an expert programmer by any means, and I don't know how to specify the double-tap. I don't even know if that's the best approach, but I would like to somehow utilize that switch because of its convenience.

Any and all advice would be appreciated.  

[Guy Lavoie]

If you can detect the double tap as an event in a program, then you could have two programs, something like this:

 

If switch double-tap on event

    Then set motion detector parameter 1 to <enable>

 

 

If switch double-tap off event

    Then set motion detector parameter 1 to <disable>

 

I don't know these devices, so I can't tell you what is settable or not by program statements.

[gregkinney]

Another approach would be using a variable. Add a second program:

If control switch fast on and not fast off

   Then set variable to 1

   Else set variable to 0

And then in your current motion program, you would add one line:

And if variable is 1

Just make sure that if you want the motion to always be on unless you toggle it off, that you set the starting value for the variable to 1.

Edited 7 hours ago by gregkinney

[mikek]

I configured the switch to enable the paddle to be used as a scene button and I confirmed via the button status that a double-tap is indeed recognized as "Fast On" (and that the light doesn't actually turn on). However, when I insert that into my program, either directly or as a variable, the program doesn't work (motion is not detected). I'm attaching a simplified version of the program that I'm using to test. 

[gregkinney]

So before you added the "And $State_5 is 1" line, this program did correctly work each time that motion was sensed, correct? The only change you made was adding the line "And $State_5 is 1"? 

And if the answer to the above question is yes, can you confim that the current value of $State_5 is 1?

[mikek]

Answer to your first question is yes. It did/does work without this line. In fact, this is a copy of the program with a lot of the bloat removed just to facilitate testing.

Yes, value is 1.

 

[gregkinney]

Did you save the variables and save the programs after you changed them?

[mikek]

Yes to both.

[gregkinney]

Sorry, that's the end of my small amount of expertise. Hopefully someone better chimes in.

[mikek]

Thanks for your help. 

[tazman]

For the motion sensor it should probably use control instead of status so when motion is switched on.

Edited 4 hours ago by tazman