It’s so hard to offer up ideas that will apply to another person‘s house. But hopefully ideas that are appropriate for your home will come from them.
Similar to the @mike.maxwell paper tube idea to limit the field of view for a motion sensor, I used this Konke motion sensor that is typically most appropriate for overhead ceiling applications, in a very limited area due to its small field of view by design.
In my particular case, there just happened to be a place I could stick the motion sensor underneath our raised hearth, onto the racks where I have our AV equipment semi-hidden from view. This gave another source to turn on the step lights I installed. There is a motion sensor at our front door just a few feet forward, and there is a motion sensor at the back window just a few feet behind to turn on the step lights. However sometimes you end up in this reset cycle and one or the other doesn’t trigger them. This was the case when my wife’s 70 year old cousin tripped up the steps when visiting, and thus this new use case for this specific type of motion sensor was born.
