Great stuff, Menno. Not dashboard related, but I love seeing how you solved some of the common problems when using motion sensors. I am not controlling lights with a motion sensor because of these issues. But I am going to give it a try based on your flow. Thank you. Keep up the good work.
Great to see these types of videos on Homey!! I'm experimenting with mmWave motion sensors myself. Next item on my list to buy is the Sonoff mmWave motion sensor :):)
Hi Menno, nice video mate! a comment and a question. Why pause the timer and not stop them? and could you expand this flow with a physical button override? My kids sometimes want to leave the light on in the "overpass ;)" for an hour or so when going to sleep.
Stopping or pausing results in similar behavior both are fine indeed :). I was about to make another video on how to turn on/off automations. The easiest way is by using a book variable. That you can create on the top. Use an extra card to check that bool. But maybe it's better to make a video about it.
I use my motion sensors in a different way, i have sensors in all the main rooms, when entering a room the lights turn on in that room and turn off in all the other rooms. to stop the cat from turning the light off in the room i am in, I have a smart button in each room that turns the light on and set a varrible the room is in use, I use that varible to stop the light being turned off by the previous flow
@HDashboards thanks, only issue is when i return to the previous room before the motion sensor has reset, the hue sensors take 30 seconds, but aqara takes 90 seconds, which is annoying
Nice video Menno! I did learn something new. But I expected you to demonstrate the use of Zones (active and inactive) instead of motion sensors. I have learned some time ago it's better to use zones for this. This way when changing motion sensors you don't have to repair the flows. Another thing you didn't mention is that most motion sensors themselves already have a build in time-out. For example Aqara motion sensors (and I believe also the Philips ones) have a minimal detection time of 60 seconds. Meaning only after 60 seconds the motion sensor signals there is no motion anymore.
Gonna make a separate video about zones. The issue with motion sensors might be that i have connected mine without a bridge and don't have a hue app to configure them. Thanks great input!
I stopped using zones since i found out that sometimes they were not correctly updated by Homey. So I stopped trusting them.@@HDashboards This method I control at least the flow.
I have a dedicated advanced flow for sunlight, each room has this IF lumens is higher than ___ AND lights are off THEN disable _____ Lights flow, I'm not good with the system flows
Nice video! One problem im having with these flows: when the lights dim to 30% due to no motion being detected I start to wave and move like crazy in front of the sensor but the lights still go out.. do you know a way to solve this?
Partly i wanted to share the concept no matter if you use homey or home assistant. Also this concept is pretty easy to translate to zones. I still want to make a whole video about zones.
Good stuff! I suppose you could also use motion sensors in neighboring rooms to determine whether you may have left the room or not? If the motion detector in the living room was the last one to trigger, it should (provided you have enough well placed motion detectors) be possible to deduce that you cannot have left the room, and it shouldn't start triggering any timeouts. If you don't live alone, you obviously can't say that triggering the motion sensor in the neighboring room means you must have left the room, but the reverse seems sound. Is this something you have experimented with?
Great video. Just working on setting Hdashboard up, and i think it's very very good. Keep up the good work 👍🏼
Thanks
Incredible instructive for a starting Homey Pro user!
Glad you enjoyed it
Excellent ideas. Looking forward to seeing more of your advanced flows.
Will upload them soon
Thank you. I am new to Homey and this was quite helpful. I hope you start making more frequent videos to help us noobs out.
Next videos coming this weekend
Fantastic, just started with my homey pro, and these advanced flows are so powerful. I would never have considered this approach. Great stuff!
Thanks! More coming soon :)
Thanks very helpful and made me change my flow on the upper floor
Glad it helped
Great stuff, Menno. Not dashboard related, but I love seeing how you solved some of the common problems when using motion sensors. I am not controlling lights with a motion sensor because of these issues. But I am going to give it a try based on your flow. Thank you. Keep up the good work.
Glad to hear!!! I'll be trying to make videos for homey and hdashboards. Hoping to share some nice tricks! And solutions for common problems.
Very helpful thanks. Great explanation 👍
You're welcome!
Thanks, great explanation !
Thank you for watching😇
Great to see these types of videos on Homey!! I'm experimenting with mmWave motion sensors myself. Next item on my list to buy is the Sonoff mmWave motion sensor :):)
Got a aqars fp2 here! :)
Me too😀
Hi Menno, nice video mate! a comment and a question. Why pause the timer and not stop them? and could you expand this flow with a physical button override? My kids sometimes want to leave the light on in the "overpass ;)" for an hour or so when going to sleep.
Stopping or pausing results in similar behavior both are fine indeed :). I was about to make another video on how to turn on/off automations. The easiest way is by using a book variable. That you can create on the top. Use an extra card to check that bool. But maybe it's better to make a video about it.
Greate thanks
I use my motion sensors in a different way, i have sensors in all the main rooms, when entering a room the lights turn on in that room and turn off in all the other rooms. to stop the cat from turning the light off in the room i am in, I have a smart button in each room that turns the light on and set a varrible the room is in use, I use that varible to stop the light being turned off by the previous flow
Nice! That's also smart
@HDashboards thanks, only issue is when i return to the previous room before the motion sensor has reset, the hue sensors take 30 seconds, but aqara takes 90 seconds, which is annoying
Great video! Thanks. Only thing is that it's not very readable on my phone. More a desktop video!
Thanks for the feedback.
Nice video Menno! I did learn something new. But I expected you to demonstrate the use of Zones (active and inactive) instead of motion sensors. I have learned some time ago it's better to use zones for this. This way when changing motion sensors you don't have to repair the flows. Another thing you didn't mention is that most motion sensors themselves already have a build in time-out. For example Aqara motion sensors (and I believe also the Philips ones) have a minimal detection time of 60 seconds. Meaning only after 60 seconds the motion sensor signals there is no motion anymore.
Gonna make a separate video about zones. The issue with motion sensors might be that i have connected mine without a bridge and don't have a hue app to configure them. Thanks great input!
I stopped using zones since i found out that sometimes they were not correctly updated by Homey. So I stopped trusting them.@@HDashboards
This method I control at least the flow.
@@quakerix totally agree
@@quakerixI don't recognize this problem.
I have a dedicated advanced flow for sunlight, each room has this IF lumens is higher than ___ AND lights are off THEN disable _____ Lights flow, I'm not good with the system flows
That also works
@@HDashboards yours works better
Why do you use countdown and not the ”when there has been no movement in xx time”?
Zone control is unreliable for me.
Nice video! One problem im having with these flows: when the lights dim to 30% due to no motion being detected I start to wave and move like crazy in front of the sensor but the lights still go out.. do you know a way to solve this?
Depends on the motion sensors most have a sensitivity that you can configure. Rising that would help.
Great video Menno! Im gonna try it right away! Also curious why not use 'zone gets active' in stead of 'motion alarm turned on'.
Partly i wanted to share the concept no matter if you use homey or home assistant. Also this concept is pretty easy to translate to zones. I still want to make a whole video about zones.
Good stuff! I suppose you could also use motion sensors in neighboring rooms to determine whether you may have left the room or not? If the motion detector in the living room was the last one to trigger, it should (provided you have enough well placed motion detectors) be possible to deduce that you cannot have left the room, and it shouldn't start triggering any timeouts. If you don't live alone, you obviously can't say that triggering the motion sensor in the neighboring room means you must have left the room, but the reverse seems sound. Is this something you have experimented with?
I use presence sensors for that. But your theory would work fine, if you live alone
Goeie uitleg!
Dankjewel!
Nice! can you make the light dim slowely, like fading out, instead of a step down from 100% to 30%, and from 30% to 0%?
Yes with the loops app for instance.
But I must say most lights automatically fade
I don't understand why or how the homey apps are not tied to the manufacturers apps...
They can use the JavaScript SDK that manufacturers sometimes provide.
Is there anyway to make this into a HomeKit automation?
I'm not familiar with home kit