Motion activated lighting with manual override

weirders · June 14, 2021, 12:19pm

Thought I’d share. Here’s my solution for the following usecase:
hardware:

an on/off sensor (i.e. Motion )
light, scene, automation, etc to switch

use:

when light is switched on: motion activated lights = ON and they turn off after a certain period.
when light is switched off: lights OFF, motion activation OFF
when light is switched off, then on within a certain time, lights ON, motion activation OFF.

Thoughts:
I do not want to decouple the switch from the lights in case the switch loses connection to HA for whatever reason. It still needs to act as a light switch (graceful degradation)

Feel free to comment on my code, I’m not a good programmer by any stretch of the imagination.

** Edit: changed to github link & fixed a scheduler issue.

github.com

weirders/homeassistant/blob/main/MotionLightsPlus.py

import datetime

import hassapi as hass


#
# App to turn lights on when motion detected then off again after a delay
# Doubleclick on the switch, within specified timeframe, will disable motion activated mode
#
# NOTES:
# 1. its LIST of sensors and LIST of entities. Stick to the supplied apps.yaml example structure.
# 2. this app switches on the sensor going OFF, meaning, start app, then trigger motion for it to start. Take into account the time your sensor needs to turn to an off state.
#
# Args:
#
# sensors: list of binary sensor to use as trigger, all sensors must be meet condition
# entities : list of entities to turn on when detecting motion, can be a light, script, scene or anything else that can be turned on
# off_delay: amount of time in minutes after turning on to turn off again. If not specified defaults to 1 minute.
# doubleclick_delay: amount of time in miliseconds that counts as doubleclick
#

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weirders · June 15, 2021, 9:59am

Updated post with updated script as there was a scheduler issue. Should be fixed now.