I could have sworn there were motion sensors out there that were not binary. That you could set thresholds and get feedback for each motion detected on how far below or above that threshold it was.
Am I tripping? I need to create some conditional reactions to movement and binary wont get me there.
Any help is greatly appreciated, y’all rock!
I’ve never heard of such a thing.
I could see where the sensitivity adjustment of the sensor could be possible (it needs more motion to trigger the sensor). But I’ve never seen a motion detector that reports different levels of motion.
Are you talking about a distance sensor?
otherwise motion detected above a threshold makes no sense. It’s either detected or not → binary.
Not that this is my my flow, but single dad with a kid and a dog. Dog triggers nothing, kid triggers night lights, man triggers room lights. IDK. Just spit balling.
I can easily see some flows for non binary sensors, but I do agree that binary is what 99% of the people are after. I am just trying to do something niche 
Yeah, I got nothin’ for that.
even security cameras that have object size detection are either on off and don’t give a “this detection was this big” type of thing.
You could do the person vs dog detection using camera’s and Deepstack or some other type of object detection AI. Or maybe even facial recognition for you or your kid. But then you are getting in pretty deep.
But other than that I really can’t think of anything else.
Facial recog is a bit too much, imho. Like you said that pretty deep. I wonder if Azure Kinect can help achieve this, but it does seem like overkill… way overkill.
More as a thought experiment than a flow for any practical use… I wonder if what I am after can be done using a variety of binary PIR sensors at different strengths and distances, all “looking” at the same doorway/hallway.
Thank you for your feedback btw