Hope this is the right place for this, but I am trying to figure out how I would make this action/rule work. My kitchen lights are on a smart things motion sensor and all my lights are controlled with Lutron switches. My living room is right next to the kitchen and I have a projection screen in my living room. When watching movies if someone gets up to go to the kitchen, everything comes on full brightness. What I am trying to accomplish is if someone uses the physical switch, it will override the motion sensor for X number of minutes. So someone could come up and dim the lights of the kitchen manually while they are doing something and not have the lights go to full brightness. Thanks for any help or guidance on this.
Use Physical Switch/Dimmer as the trigger.
For the actions:
- Pause your motion rule.
- Resume your motion rule delayed by xyz minutes.
I just put this in the logic that turns on the light in the first place, to also check if a virtual switch is on, to then turn on the lights.
Then you can use the virtual switch to disable the lights automation. If it is off, the lights do not come on. You can then automate the virtual switch, so that it turns off when the projector turns on, and turns back on when the projector is off. Or, make a rule so that when the virtual switch is turned off, it automatically turns itself back on after X minutes.
I call this switch, “sensor enabled”. I have one for each room.