Basic question on automation and to set a device state

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Hello,
I am struggling with HA and fails in most obvious steps…

In aytomation when I set the Alarm Control panel to ‘arm_away’ I also like to set the state of my PIR detector to ‘off’ since it goes ‘on’ when it detects motion detection.

So in Automation when I activate the alarm, how do I change the state of the device “binary_sensor.slim_multi_sensor_pir_temperature_illumination_home_security_motion_detection” to ‘off’ ?
I.e - what action do I do in the automation GUI to set the PIR device to “off”?
Thanks for any support - appreciated!

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Isn’t it doing what it’s supposed to do? Turn on when it detects motion?

A binary_sensor is a read-only device. There is no service call to set a binary_sensor’s state. Even if you did set the binary_sensor’s state to off, it would change to on the moment the physical PIR sensor detected movement.

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Yes it is what it suppose to do. The problem is that it stays on for like 20 hrs or something like that.
When the sensor has trigged a motion, I like it to be abke to set it to “clear” when I set the “away-from-home” state on the alarm panel.
Now the alarm is not working until the PIR decides to set the Clear state by it selfe that takes several hours.
If I use developer tools to set the state “manually” it works fine and I like to do this in automation.

I realize that the sensor is “read only” but if a sensor detects “motion” and keeps that state, how useful is that I ask myself
I obviously is doing something wrong here…
I can use the entity “sensor.slim_multi_sensor_pir_temperature_illumination_home_security_motion_sensor_status” that toggles but that was auto-hidden and I assume I should work with the motion_detection entity.

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What kind of PIR is this? That’s totally useless in my opinion…
That’s not how a PIR should work. Mine turn on when they detect motion and off after 10 seconds of no motion detection.

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PST02B by Philio Technology Corp
It creates:

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The Entitiy with the running guy is called:
‘binary_sensor.slim_multi_sensor_pir_temperature_illumination_home_security_motion_detection’
This is the one that goes:
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And stays like that for hours, and I like to reset it to:
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But this I can only do in developer tools.
Perhaps there is a timer somewhere to control the “reset” but I can not find it…

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This has to be some configuration issue, probably on the device itself.
You need to set one of these configuration parameters http://manuals-backend.z-wave.info/make.php?lang=de&sku=PST02-1A&cert=ZC10-16030003

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As a workaround I use
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that switches state basically directly but that entity was deactivated after the z-wave JS installation…
That entity is called " sensor.slim_multi_sensor_pir_temperature_illumination_home_security_motion_sensor_status"

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Thanks sir - that make sense to me.
Just need to figure out what parameter to set and the how to set it :slight_smile:Is that with developer tools in HA i pass such configuration or do I need ti use a external tool somehow?
Again thanks for comments guys!