I have several of these combined dimmer and sensor. They work well but I have found they seem not to behave well with motion lighting.
If I use a simple lighting rule they control as expected and if I use them in a rule manager condition I can get the expected dimmer to respond to motion activity.
If I try to use motion lighting to create a simple mode based action to turn on the dimmer based on the motion sensor becoming active there is no response.
Logs show motion is detected and active but this does not turn on the light.
Is there something different about how this device is handled by this app? Other locations where I have a separate sensor and dimmer motion lighting works fine but not with this combination device. I am using the hubitat driver and have it set for manual mode. I've tried other community drivers - no difference.
I can work around this using RM but wondered what is going on to cause this?
That's what I am suspecting. Interestingly if I create a new child motion lighting app using the same settings ( just vanilla turn on when motion active) it will trigger the light once but not on repeat motion... Odd
Try one of the user drivers for the 26933. I have one published (although I'm the process of re-doing it currently, and basing it off of my 14294 dimmer code base that is a lot cleaner), and there are a few others out there.
My guess (as I can't see the code of the built in driver HE has) is that it is not creating a state change event when motion is detected. I could be wrong, though. While I've seen the exact same thing you are seeing on the built-in driver, I don't remember if I ever went back and re-tested it on my driver.
I intentionally changed motion events in my drivers, and made all motion detection events state changes.
Here is my current driver:
Also - do you know the firmware of your device? The very newest firmware on the 26933 are odd, and don't work correctly with my driver. I'm sure I could fix my driver, but I don't have one of the devices with a new firmware to test on...
There was a change in 2.0.5 that should have made the built-in driver work with them, though.
Thanks. I've used this driver too in the hope of fixing this. Didn't work (but I will experiment again when I am back home over the weekend).
I agree with your guess but can't confirm.
Would anyone be prepared to test this out with their own set up and try a motion lighting app using one of these dimmers? If it isn't replicated it must be something I'm doing.
The fact that simple lighting and rules machine applications work with these dimmers very well is potentially a hint as to what may be going on.
I'll try it tonight or this weekend. I have a lot of them, so I can pick one that isn't so disruptive to play with.
I do a lot of motion automation with 26931 and 26933 devices - but all with RM rules, and not through the motion lighting app. The motion events work fine in RM rules.
@bravenel Before I waste more time testing, can you think of anything offhand that would make the motion detection on these Jasco/GE devices work in RM but not in Motion Lighting? Multiple people have confirmed that same behavior.
Side note on new firmware... My latest drivers should support the new firmware devices now, too. Just FYI. I don't have one of the new firmware devices, though, so can't verify. I did order a new dimmer directly from Jasco this morning, so hopefully I'll have a new firmware rev device soon.
OK, we'll need @bravenel to look at Motion Lighting and see why it works differently than RM with the same events...
For firmware, the easy way I do it is:
Change driver to Basic Z-Wave Tool (if you don't have that driver installed, you can get it from Hubitat's official github repository, or search on this forum).
Open LOG view in a different tab/window
Click Get Version Report on driver detail page.
Change driver back to what it was originally. If you don;t remember, it is almost always what is listed under "Device Name" on the driver details page.
The firmware version will show up in the log as "applicationVersion".
Like this: dev:292019-02-08 04:41:05.812 pm infoVersionReport- applicationVersion:5.38
This seems weird. I got it to turn on, and then not turn on a 2nd time... You can see in the device logs that motion was active again after it went off... And you can see nada in the motion lighting app log... Maybe it was too soon after it turned off???
That's the point of turning on logging in Motion Lighting, so you can see what it's seeing. It's not seeing a Second motion active event, so you wouldn't expect it to turn on the lights. Now why it's not seeing such an event is a separate question. Troubleshooting is one step at a time.
