Phillips Hue Motion Sensor Only Seems to Report Lux When Motion is Active

[gamerkingfaiz]

I've done some testing and found when I had the lux reporting to change on 1 lux change it wasn't changing every 5 minutes (it'd seem to take much longer). Sometimes I'd find myself manually refreshing the sensor to get the latest lux.

However when I changed to use the log 10 reporting, it consistently changes every 5 minutes!

You can read more here on how the log10 reporting works.

2.2.4 - Philips Hue Motion sensor Lux reporting updates

Previous versions of this driver included simple value based options for Lux level change reporting. While simple to implement, in practice it generates too few or too many events, and the distribution of them across the values doesn't follow perceived level changes. In other words, a 10 Lux change from 5 to 15 has a much higher perceived value change (very noticeable) than that same change at 3000 Lux, which isn't noticeable at all, and using simple value based changes doesn't account for thi…