Hello all,
I have two automations that I have written that have been working fine for the longest time, but as of a month ago some different behaviors started happening. I have a Vista 20p alarm panel and I have plugged in a A2DUSB to my Raspberry Pi. I can read all my sensor states and see them as binary sensors and have created automations to turn lights on and off based on the sensors.
What’s happened in the last month is that the lights keep turning on and off when the automation is active. For example, if the garage door sensor goes to on, turn on the garage lights. When that’s active, the lights would turn off and on. I finally figured out that what was tripping it was my motion sensor on my main floor. If someone is home upstairs and I come home, as soon as they move the light turns off, but then the light turns back on again. If they move, it turns off. You can imagine this gets annoying when you are in a very dark garage.
I am stumped as to find a way around this. I tested the sensors and sure enough see the garage door sensor go to OFF when the motion sensor triggers, and then goes back on when that sensor clears. Is there a way to write the automation to ignore a specific event? I’ve had this running for about 5 years and this is suddenly coming up. I am losing my WAF very quickly!
Here’s my alarm panel log. 01 are the doors and 05 is the motion sensor
12/16/2019 6:33:10 PM [0000000110000000----],001,[f70000071001000028020000000000],"FAULT 01 "
12/16/2019 6:33:14 PM [0000000110010000----],008,[f70000071008004c28020000000000],"SYSTEM LO BAT "
12/16/2019 6:33:18 PM [0000000110000000----],001,[f70000071001000028020000000000],"FAULT 01 "
12/16/2019 6:33:19 PM [0000000110000000----],005,[f70000071005000028020000000000],"FAULT 05 "
12/16/2019 6:33:23 PM [0000000110010000----],008,[f70000071008004c28020000000000],"SYSTEM LO BAT "
12/16/2019 6:33:26 PM [0000000110000000----],001,[f70000071001000028020000000000],"FAULT 01 "
12/16/2019 6:33:27 PM [1000000110010000----],008,[f70000071008005c28020000000000],"SYSTEM LO BAT "
12/16/2019 6:33:31 PM [0000000110000000----],005,[f70000071005000028020000000000],"FAULT 05 "
12/16/2019 6:33:35 PM [0000000110010000----],008,[f70000071008004c28020000000000],"SYSTEM LO BAT
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