Okay, I purchased an R-PRO-1 from Apollo Automation to detect motion in a specific room to automatically turn the lights on and off, but for the life of me I can’t figure out how to configure it. No matter what, the LD2450 insists that there’s something in the room, despite it saying when I’m in the room there’s only one source of motion. It’s like even though I walk out the door and out of range, the LD2450 isn’t clearing my presence, but is instead leaving a phantom version of me in place that resyncs with my motion when I walk back into the room. And then there’s a second source of motion that seems to fly around the room at random intervals. I thought it might be the ceiling fan, but the motion doesn’t match the ceiling fan at all. I’m so confused and I have no idea what I’m doing.
Watching this as I might buy one of those.
Turn off the ceiling fan, turn sensitivity down, other config settings (is the sensitivity so high it is finding movement in another room on the other side of a wall)?
Also - probably not related to your situation specifically but worth saying here - take into consideration situations where people try to turn off a wall light switch while walking out of the room. In that case I disregard any motion for turning lights on for a few minutes as soon as someone turns the wall light switch physically off, so the lights won’t go back on while the person walks out. (I have ALOT more logic built into mine to work around using primarily PIR sensors on my end, endless tweaking has that working well but that is another story.)
I tried turning the fan off, which is how I know the phantom motion isn’t the fan; it shows up even with the fan off completely.
I’ve had this problem with the LD2450 in the R-PRO-1 as well. I had to give up on using it for presence detection, since it would keep presence after everyone left the room, as you said.
Fortunately, I added the LD2412 to the R-PRO-1, since I find it works much better for precense detection. I basically ignore the LD2450.
Hilariously, I have the opposite problem with the LD2412 (which I did order along with the LD2450); it sometimes says I’m not in the room when I am.