I have several motion sensors set up outside the home, facing the front door on the main door, facing the front door of the guest house, on the far side of our guest house and another facing the front driveway. I have set up an automation on a 4 position remote (ZOOZ) so one click will activate ALL OUTSIDE LIGHTS and double click will shut off ALL of the same lights.
The problem seems to be (My guess) is if we walk past one of the motion sensors they then take over. The outside motion sensors are set to 10 minutes on for front lights from main house and 8 minutes on for front lights from guest house. So in the dead of night while walking the dogs after turning on ALL LIGHTS we find ourselves searching for our phones to turn lights back on again.
Is there a way to make that Automation IGNORE all motion sensors so the lights stay on till’ we click on the remote 2x ?
I have several simple overrides for my outside motion sensors - they can be input_booleans for dashboard use, or schedule helpers, or binary template sensors based on light levels. They simply go in the condition section of the “lights on” automation. If the override is “on” the automation stops. Would that not do it?
If you want the lights to stay on after a button press, and to return to automation after the double press turns them off, then I’d use an input boolean as a condition for the automation. Then another automation to toggle the boolean when you press the buttons.
ALL new stuff to me… wish there was a Home Assistant for Dummies but from what I see impossible. With all the updates and such a lot of times when I google it the data is 6 months to 2 years back and things change a lot. Never looked into boolean (although I did take boolean algebra in college MANY MANY years ago LOL) or context-based. I will google these later tonight after I do my dog training.
I go to the main HA web site and look at documentation and use the search box but the search box usually does not turn up info for what I am looking for sadly.