So I have all my motion sensors setup to turn on lights in bathrooms/laundry room. That part works great. I have them set for a 5 minute timeout, so if the kids are in there showering etc they don't turn off (6 year got quite upset when they turned off on her when she was showering).
The problem I have is if I go into the bathroom the lights come on, if I leave and turn off the light via the switch (HUE dimmer switch), then go back into the bathroom inside the 5 minute timeout the lights do not turn back on. If its after the 5 minute timeout they do
For example, you dim the lights, but then the motion sensor picks up your movements and returns the light to the preset level. Turning the option on will prevent your manual setting from being overridden.
This type of deeper explanation and example should be implemented in hover tooltips all over HE in my opinion. Theres no way that a couple of words next to the button explains these complex concepts adequately.
here is a question:
"buttons to disable off" what resets this and allows the lights to turn off after a timer again? manually turning the lights off doesn't seem to work and there isn't another button to toggle this that I see.
At 9:16:55 I turned the lights off at the switch (Hue Switch), you can see it registered the new motion but did not turn the lights back on as they are in the 'timeout period'
It's not seeing that the light was turned off. So, it thinks they are still on --> won't turn them on again. See what happens when you turn the light off with the Hue Switch device page instead of the switch.
Is the Hue Switch even part of your Hubitat system?
The Hue Switches do not show up as being able to be added to Hubitat, how would I add these when they do not show up as available? all I see in the Hue connector is the bulbs
The Hue bridge won't send events to Hubitat, so this isn't going to work for you this way. If it was a Z-Wave, Zigbee or Lutron switch that reports events to Hubitat, that could be made to work both for turning off the lights (via Hubitat) and for making this automation do what you want. But the Hue switch connected to the Hue bridge can't serve that purpose.
Thanks for looking into this are there any plans to make the switches work via the integration like they do in SmartThings? I would hate to have to re-add my SmartThings hub just for these switches
