Motion lighting migrated from simple rules

[scoob8000]

Trying to clean up some of my apps and I'm the process migrated one lighting rule to rule machine.

But something doesn't seem to be right.

A couple times now, I've had the light turn off on me while I'm still in the room and I'm plain view of the motion sensor.

I haven't turned any logging on yet. Hoping one of you will see something obvious I'm missing.

I did look at den light events, every time the motion sensor goes active I see it setting the dimmer level on the "den light" dimmer switch.

Not sure if my 3 minute wait is the wrong thing or what to use. Or maybe I need to set cancelable to yes on the wait?

It always worked as a simple rule. I just let RM bring it over.

[pseudonym]

The Delay should be changed out for the following

Wait for events: Den Motion motion inactive and stays that way for 0:03:00

This will restart the rule if motion goes active within the 3-minute "delay"

[scoob8000]

Gotcha.

Should I be sending the dim:100 every time to the switch, or should that be a conditional action, only if the switch is off?

[pseudonym]

I don't believe re-sending the dim command will harm anything so I would say adding a conditional action would be a personal preference. You could also consider adding a Req Exp for the light being off (or not at 100%). That way when it's dimmed to 100% the rule won't re-trigger.

[mbishop]

The main thing annoying about re-sending it will be if anyone tries to manually adjust that dimmer. They'll find that it constantly returns to 100% as soon as they move again.

[JB10]

This scenario is actually where I really like the new conditional triggers. You could set up the rule similar to:

Triggers
Motion (only if light is off)
Inactive and stays for 3 minutes

Actions,
If Motion, dim light to 100
Else, light off

[scoob8000]

That's a good point I didn't even think of.

I just setup the conditional trigger so it only sends dim:100 if the switch is off.

[bill.d]

Lots of these kinds of considerations are built in/configurable in Room Lighting.