I have a Hue Motion Sensor paired to a Hue Hub. Do I have to unpair from the Hue Hub to be able to pair it with Hubitat? Also how do I pair it with Hubitat if am able? thanks
I have a Hue motion sensor but have never had a Hue Bridge.
To pair to HE reset the sensor.
This is done by pressing and holding in the reset button on the back of the sensor until the LED blinks red I think. It was a while ago.
You will need a small pin or something similar.
Put hub into 'discovering device'.
Press the reset again to put sensor into pairing mode.
I think the sensor LED blinks orange while pairing then green when paired. Not certain though.
The main thing is to ensure you reset the sensor.
I have one working fine directly connected to the HE hub.
Ok. I'll try that. Thanks
I have been thinking about getting a Hue Motion Sensor. Can i just check with you on the cool off time (after it detects motion, how long before it switches to inactive) and is this configurable....and if so, what's the minimum seconds.
I'm looking for a zigbee motion sensor that can basically switch back to inactive around 5 seconds. This is to cater for lights in my room. Right now i'm using ST's motion sensor which has about a 25 seconds blind spot. The problem here, is that if you run into a room and run out (under 25 seconds), my piston's won't fire to off the lights. I'm using 2 motion sensors to detect occupancy within the room.
Don't use motion for the Off portion.
Motion turns on the light and starts a timer. That's it.
When the timer gets to "zero", lights off.
Run in, run out. The light turns on, and the timer starts. If at any time, you run in again, motion starts the timer (or resets it back, if that's easier to follow).
Rule Machine calls that Cancel on Truth.
(detail: Timer is either count up or count down. Motion sets zero for a count up timer, or sets it to your max time for a count down timer.)
@kevintee23 just saw this post and not sure if its too late however Philips confirmed to me a couple of weeks ago that basically there is no blind window with a Hue motion sensor (I had questions for them when trying to diagnose problems I was running into with Room Manager in ST)
@bobbles my HE hub has been ordered and is in the process of being shipped. In the mean time Im trying to find out as much as possible ready for its arrival and migration from ST to HE.
In ST IDE you can see if a device is local based or cloud based processing - is that possible in HE? I know the idea behind HE is local based processing which is my main reason for switching over. With the Hue motion sensor in HE - is that local based processing or cloud based the same was custom DTHs are in ST?
Everything runs locally. Even webCoRE should you decide to use it. Try all the native HE apps first though.
As with ST you can load custom apps and DH's.
The community here are great.
As an aside, a few weeks ago I was away for the weekend and my Internet router died. When I got home I checked the logs and all my rules and pistons ran as they should. Away lights on/off, curtains opening and closing etc. With ST nothing would have run as I was using webCoRE for everything.
I found Rules Machine not as user friendly as webCoRE to start with but once I got my head round it all it's not to bad.
I've found zigbee channels 20 - 22 the best to use so it might be worth assigning this channel when you first power up.
I'm sure when you get into it you'll be happy you changed.
Have fun!
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