Disable Switch Motion Control for 1 Hour After the light switch is manually pressed

smarcus3 · October 18, 2024, 4:30am

So I almost have this completed but have two bugs I need to work through. The setup is a light which is controlled automatically with a motion sensor but if anyone uses the light switch then it ignores the motion sensor for 1 hour. This happens but has 2 issues.

The logic to determine when a user presses the physical light switch takes 2 - 3 seconds to run and within this time the motion sensor is wildly switching the light fighting the user.
On startup the motion sensor is disabled for the first hour as it needs some kind of logic to fix this issue.

Thoughts?

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smarcus3 · October 18, 2024, 2:30pm

To help someone else with a similar problem here is the solution:

Add triggers to only accept the first message from the motion sensor then reject all signals for the next 5 seconds.

Secondly, at startup the global variable which stores time when it was last press it set to 0 so automatic control works immediately.

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