I have a hallway with a zwave light switch that controls some lights. I have an iris v1 at each end of the hallway that toggles the lights. This seems to work well. When I pass motion switch 1, lights come on, and motion switch 2 becomes active and turns the light off when I reach the end. The issu…

I’ve never used any iris v1 devices but I have several iris v2 motion sensors and the timeout isn’t configurable. I’m guessing the v1 devices are the same, but admittedly that’s a guess. Is there a reason why you prefer to have the lights turn on with one sensor and off with the other? Have you tri…

I originally had it set up that way, but liked the fact that it instantly turns on and off, as if you were hitting the switch yourself. I may end up going back to a 1 minute timer or something.

Sure I hear that. You might be able to figure out a way to keep that effect but I doubt it will involve decreasing the motion sensor timeout.

Yeah, I guess either way I do it, there will always be a 45s dead zone. Can't think of any way around it.

The above suggestion is what I'd probably do--and I'd say it's how most people set up lighting automations (off after a certain period of inactivity from one or more sensors for a room/hall/area), but I admit your idea does sound cool. Most Zigbee sensors don't have a configurable timeout, though li…

Yeah, it works in reverse. I just have each motion sensor toggle the status, so if I walk through motion sensor 2 and the lights are off, it will come on and as I pass sensor 1, it will turn off. Interesting that some v2 sensors default to 6s timeout. I may pickup a couple if I can confirm this.

[image] BillyBob: Interesting that some v2 sensors default to 6s timeout. I may pickup a couple if I can confirm this. I'm not sure what you're looking to confirm--a couple of us who've bought from eBay have definitely found this to be the case. :slight_smile: It's unlikely the eBay seller kn…

@BillyBob , if you are truly married to the lights working this way, you could replace the sensors with Hue motion sensors and be able to accomplish this. The Hue's retrigger time is configurable down to 10 seconds (with the built in Hue motion sensor driver) and they work great paired to HE. Just wa…

You could use the zone motion app which does allow for a configurable timeout.

But I think that app will not be able to override the intrinsic timeout behaviour of the sensor, right? If the sensor is only sending a signal again after, say, 30 seconds for the Iris v2, there is nothing the app can do to manage retriggering behaviour prior to that signal.

Motion Sensor Timeout (how to lower or force it inactive)

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Kev November 5, 2019, 1:09pm 15

Maybe something like this?