Need recommendations for triggering my ceiling lights when the garage door is opened. Thinking about using an occupancy sensor to activate the wall switch.
Thanks, Rick
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dose your door/driver have contact sensor?
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I trigger my garage lights when a door opens. Front, back, overhead, foyer. I have 4. Each with a contact sensor. I wrote a rule that triggers the lights when on opens and leaves them on until all are closed again. Has been working flawlessly for two years now. If you need help with a rule, I can share later if someone hasn't already.
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I also have motion sensors in the garage because we're hobbyists so we're in there a lot.
No it does not. Thanks
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it depends what you want mate, do you want it on or off in relation to the door id go with contact, or as @april.brandt sugests if you want i based on someone being in there go with motion sensors
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This is going to be a learn from my mistake statement. I first started with just motion. I stood in the door for a bit and waived my arms until the light came on. It's just not a natural flow. Garages are so large now that you'd need several motion sensors to cover the area to make sure that the lights would turn on. When coming out of the house, stepping into a dark garage is eerie. Two or three steps and the light comes on, but still not natural. After adding the contact sensors to the doors, the lights turn on when the doors open. When they should. If you think about how you do things, you'd reach for the handle and hit the light before you walked out into the dark garage. So it only makes sense to have your house react the same. You can get some iris v1 contact sensors on ebay for cheap. That's what I did. It makes your house feel more natural. When the smart lock unlocks, the lights turn on. Open a door and the lights turn on. And now I only had to cover the area where we work on projects with a motion sensor. It was the right decision for our house and for our situation. In my experience, you're going to be much happier with those lights turning on to an open door instead of waiting for your garage to detect motion.
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Every room I use motion lighting in, I have several from different angles..
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You might want to also consider an "override" light. In my garage automation, I have the overhead lights going off after only 60 seconds if just the overhead is on. But if I have the brighter lights around my workbench on, the timeout is 30 minutes. That way they will still turn off if I accidentally leave them on but if they're not I get a quick timeout for the overhead. It means I have to control them independently but since it's a garage, I don't worry about dimming and just have them on switches/plugs.
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I do to, but the garage seems like a place that shouldn't be necessary unless you have specific needs.
Apparently none of you guys runs out to the garage naked at midnight to grab something from the freezer.
Is there a "dude I'm naked don't turn all the garage lights on I'm sneaking out for ice cream" mode?
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@2005 That was oddly specific
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I best not as I have a carport.
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Only a problem if your garage has windows or you forget to close the garage door.
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Or if your not a exospisionest (can't speel) 
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OMG! That's hilarious!
I think there's a mode for that. Or a button. You could use a cheap button. The "I'm naked" button. Don't turn on ANY lights kind of button.
There was an app on ST called the flasher!
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That's awesome!
Also closes all window coverings.
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Guys stahp .. I'm out of likes. This isn't fair. I'm bustin my sides I'm laughing so hard.
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Found it, how board am I, some one fancy porting a flasher
