I have been excited to get gong with my lighting in HE. I have lifx (Group of group driver) lights mostly. And xiaomi motion
I've setup motion lighting app (great app by looks of it ) but for the life of me, the app simply won't turn the lights on. I've tried it with all the diff settings.
If i setup a simple lighting app, it works straight away.
Could it be to do with the lifx group of group driver? The lifx lights work great via manual control within HE. Also the motion sensors are quick to respond.
It just seems the motion lighting app doesn't like me.
All my Motion Lighting is not working this morning! Rebooted, still not.
****SOLVED, sort of: Was in AWAY MODE due to not detecting my Phone Presence. I have all mine set not to run in AWAY MODE.
Sure. Essentially the light is not turning on during day mode. The motion sensor is showing as active but light just doesn't go on. It looks like In the logs it is on.
Then 30 minutes later, you walk into that room and the lights will come on or there is a huge delay of say 20 seconds before the lights turn on.
If the logs are showing the light being turned on when it should be, that is the logs from Motion Lighting, then the issue is something else. Is this a Z-Wave light?
you'll see event fired at 7:48am on motion sensor but the app didn't trigger until minutes later.
This motion sensor is about 6 metres from the hub and has a repeater near it (the 3a nue dimmer). But I do have smartthings zigbee running still (channel 15 whilst hubitat is on channel 26) so that could be the reason.
Can't be sure but I have seen alot of people saying channel about 21 seem to be a issue on some devices and your using a known issue device (xiaomi) that doesn't follow standard ZigBee standards (hence why it's not supported). So maybe try changing the channel?
Channel 26 is not advisable at all. It has 4dB less transmit power then the other channels. If HE utilizes the max transmit power. I've set mine to channel 11 just to be sure and moved my wifi to other side of the band.
bit the bullet and put everything over. so now all zigbee devices are on hubitat. (yayz). creating the rules is super fast tho on the lan compared to doing it via st so i should have all my rule setup pretty quickly. initial checks seems like the network is nice and strong now and zigbee response is fast. (i hope it stays!)
Actually. Logs are not showing light's been turned on. (From what I can tell)
At 6.39 pm motion was detected (when I walked into room) and light's didn't respond at all. Logs on light's show nothing after 626pm. They are still working manually in hubitat app tho.
Only unique thing about this lifx group is it's made up off:
Four GU10 lifx down light's
1 lifx z strip.
All under the one group.
The other lifx groups respond great. So im thinking it's that... Tho there is one other group with same setup that has zero issues. It's just the kitchen group.
Looking at your logs again, when it fails, it is in the time window of the 6 minutes delayed off. So the app thinks the lights are still on at that point. Did you turn them off through some other mechanism than the app? If so, it could be that the app doesn't see that off happening, and doesn't turn them on out of the (mistaken) belief they are already on. Yet, when you wait 5 minutes, it turns them off at the end of the timer, knows they are off, and so turns them on as it should.
Nope there are no manual interactions here. you'll note at the start of the log when it first should turn on (kitchen) there was no interaction prior for at least 20 minutes (i know you can't see those logs ) . the lights were off, the motion was active for over 10 minutes.
I am having issues with my lounge one as well which also has sep rules for color. it's easy for me to test this setup and wil see how it goes. but it's very odd there is no log when nothing happens as you say.
happy to help with whatever additional info you might need?
