No easy way to control "off" dimmer levels?

[spectaclelighting]

There are all sorts of wonderful options and variables within motion rules to turn things on, but nothing to customize the "off" state. What I'd like to happen is that by default, I have a room that is at 30% at sunset. When someone enters the room, I want it to fade to 100% and then fade back to 30% rather than turn off entirely.

I could probably put together a Rule to pull this off, but it sure would be nice if these options could be added to the Motion Automations.

Thanks.

[bbrannon]

Here is a Rule Machine rule that I use for my front porch light. A variation on this might so what you want.

[neonturbo]

Look at the built-in app Room Lighting, and/or Lights On Motion Plus community app.

[RELEASE] Lights on Motion Plus (dim before off, remember individual bulb states, etc.)

I've written an app for my own use and figured I'd share it. I originally wrote it for a certain other platform, then another platform (see? not the one you're thinking of), and finally re-wrote it for Hubitat and fixed some longstanding bugs I tolerated. I figured I'd share it with the community in case anyone has any use for it. At its core, it's similar to most motion-based lighting apps, but none of them could do a couple things I wanted. They all could more or less turn one or more lights …

[bertabcd1234]

@spectaclelighting

it sure would be nice if these options could be added to the Motion Automations.

You can already do this using the most full-featured built-in motion automation app, Room Lighting. Specifically, look for the "Alternative Turning Off Methods" option, then you'd want to set the table to use whatever percent instead of actual off for off (as it will hint for you to do).

That being said, for this simple automation, a Rule might be just as easy to write, such as the one suggested above. Personally, I'd use "Wait for event: motion inactive" or "Wait for event: motion inactive <-- duration x:xx", but that depends on what you really want to happen.

[spectaclelighting]

@bertabcd1234

You can already do this using the most full-featured built-in motion automation app, Room Lighting. Specifically, look for the "Alternative Turning Off Methods" option, then you'd want to set the table to use whatever percent instead of actual off for off (as it will hint for you to do).

There is a pull-down to reveal "Restore lights to what they were before Activation." This seems to be exactly what I'm looking for. However, I think it is really buggy. When I turn that on, it doesn't seem to work everytime. What's worse is that it doesn't always activate when it is supposed to.

[bertabcd1234]

Logs would be the most helpful thing to figure out where things are going wrong. But...

@spectaclelighting

This seems to be exactly what I'm looking for.

Is it? If you want this, as you stated:

@spectaclelighting

When someone enters the room, I want it to fade to 100% and then fade back to 30% rather than turn off entirely.

Then you can use the alternative off settings to just set everything to 30% instead of needing to remember what something was before (which, as one guess as to what might go wrong, requires your devices to accurately report their state to the hub -- but again, logs will have more information and help you decide where to start troubleshooting if needed).