"waking up" a motion sensor for faster operation?

[aaiyar]

@jrfarrar

Because they can be set to Occupancy mode they are just about instantaneous in that mode. I use these on exactly the use cases you have. Kitchen/Bathrooms. Especially at night. Luckily there are ways with custom commands to turn "occupancy" and "Vacancy" on and off in their firmware.

Nice - I like how you use your GE motion switches.

Like @jared.zimmerman the majority of my switches are Lutron Caseta (closets & bathrooms are Zooz). I control my zigbee motion sensors somewhat similarly - such that motion-based lighting is not active in Away mode and dims to a different value in Sleep mode.

I use non-standard Xiaomi motion sensors (which are on a separate Hubitat), and all my automation is done via Node-RED on a separate computer. Even with the delays involved in sending commands over the LAN (or WLAN), I still see motion-based events to occur in 130-180 ms.

[jrfarrar]

@Angus_M

That's a very old version of RM you have there!

Hahaha, yes I do...gives you an idea of how long I've been using those though! And with @ogiewon if it ain't broke... Quite honestly...as much as I thought the old RM was kind of weird...I miss it. It was actually easier to do a lot of things. So I'll be keeping these rules around until the HE team tells me I can't.

[TechMedX]

@jared.zimmerman I am also working on automating my bathroom light and I use Lutron like I think you do. Long story short using "switch" in my motion rule gave me 180ms response from sensor to light. I change the rule to "set dimmer" and it dropped to 90ms. Not why this made an impact, or how your rule is setup, but wanted to pass on my findings.

[jtmpush18]

Just out of curioisity, your "switch" and "set dimmer", are they both in a Rule Machine rule?

[jared.zimmerman]

I’m using motion lighting, and using the dimmer function.

[ritchierich]

@jrfarrar

Luckily there are ways with custom commands to turn "occupancy" and "Vacancy" on and off in their firmware.

Which driver are you using for these switches? The ones I have seen have occupancy is a preference and not a command.

[jrfarrar]

@ritchierich

Which driver are you using for these switches?

jrfarrar/hubitat/blob/master/devicehandlers/GE 26933 Dimmer Switch/GE 26933 Dimmer switch.groovy

[ritchierich]

Thank you sir! I am using @JasonJoel's driver currently with my motion switch (not dimmer) and may just modify to add these commands to this driver since it has been working quite well for me.

[JasonJoel]

The current version of my driver has those commands as well..

[ritchierich]

@JasonJoel

The current version of my driver has those commands as well

Thank you! The old driver has been working well and I haven’t thought to check. The other night I was blinded walking into my master closet at 2 AM and thought it would be nice to disable the switch during certain timeframes.

[jrfarrar]

@JasonJoel

The current version of my driver has those commands as well..

I'd use his...it's the most current and has more than mine does...