Hi everyone. My first post here, so bear with me if I omit needed info or ramble too much.
So, I have automations setup to turn on my garage lights when motion is detected. However, because we work in the garage and driveway where motion isn’t always detected, I created a toggle helper that when on, overrides the auto turn off on the motion automations. I want to create an automation with an actionable notification that allows the user to extend the time that the override is allowed to stay on. For example, after the override has been active for 2 hours, a notification is sent to the user and gives them the option to extend another 2 hours, or the override will turn off.
Oh, forgot to mention if it matters, the override is toggled on through a tag scan.
If i were on your place I would use presence sensor in garage and for door some contact sensor to monitor if the door is open or closed.
And do automations based on state of those senosrs.
I already have the motion sensor, what I am trying to do is create an override for the automatic shut off of the lights when the motion sensor doesn’t detect motion.
No, there is a difference between motion senosr (pir) and presence sensor ( radar sensor).
Motion sensor (pir) is binary sensor with two states on/off, motion detected/clear.
Radar or presence sensor is usually plugged in electricity, but now there are battery power ones, and it detect presence in a room.
Anyway…don’t over complicate things because usually it will not work.
To create override you will probably need some helper that will turn automation on/off, but this is something that I never tried and I don’t know will it work.
Thank you for the advice. At the end of the day, I’m really just trying to figure out the actionable notification piece of it. The motion sensor and lights are working, I’m just not familiar with how the actionable notifications work yet where I can attempt to program the automation without some assistance.
I don’t think that this is the right thing to do in your case.
You don’t want light to turn off if you are working in garage.
So you have to “tell” ha that someone is in garage and not to turn off lights.
With your current hardware setup you could create timer helper that will start when pir stop detecting motion and be reset if motion is detected in threshold time. And based on that it will turn off lights.
But again this is not suitable for garage and working on car.
As you wish but it would imho be much easier to add presence sensor or two of them to detect presence.