When the garage door is open (LED 7 glows yellow).Hope that helps you some!Įdit: also thanks for the reminder that I really need to try your switches with the led notifications.Īs long as you mentioned it, here is what I've set up for my downstairs dimmers I arrived at the "180" value by simply waiting until it was noticeably dark inside and then checking the LUX value.Īnyway that works really well! Today was a very rainy, overcast day and the lights were already on inside when I got home from work. I did that to avoid turning on lights because of an intermittent cloud or 2. So, in fact, the sensor would need to report under 180 twice (consecutively). I use that interval because the sensor reports it's LUX value precisely every 3 minutes.
I created an event that turns on INSIDE lights when the floodlight sensor LUX level has been less than 180 for more than 3:05 minutes.However, I fixed this too with the new sensor. not really a problem more of an annoyance. Also (and this is more important), it gets dark inside quite a bit earlier on an overcast day. HOWEVER, that's not a precise calculation as "dark" relative to sunset is not linear at every time of the year. I set that up because it always gets dark in my house about a 1/2 hour before sunset. My system had always been programmed to turn lights on in the house 30 minutes before sunset.
This was not exactly a "problem" but was just something I got used to. I added this tweak to remind me to turn off the lights if I turned them on "manually" and also to give me a heads-up if someone (or my dog) was in the driveway. It will BLINK magenta when the lights are turned on by motion (did this with another event). It will GLOW magenta when the lights are turned on by Z-Wave.
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