I added a Zooz ZSE18 motion sensor in my garage-attached workshop. The intent is to trigger an alarm on motion late at night. It’s working, but of course detects motion constantly when I’m in there during the day.
Are all these detection events potentially a problem for my Z-wave network, or for HA? Should I be looking for a way to disable the sensor during the day?
You can set up the automation for your alarm to only trigger the alarm at certain times. - After Sunset or Before Sunrise, for instance or something time based.
It is no any problem for the network. The motion reports will always be there and that’s not a problem.
Well yes, you can ignore them during the day and make an automation, which will do something only during the night, that’s very easy.
condition:
- condition: time
after: '01:00'
before: '06:00'
Yes the automation will have a time-of-day condition, I’m just thinking about all the times during the daylight hours when motion is detected, and that automation gets triggered. It won’t do anything, that’s fine, just wondering about all the unnecessary z-wave traffic.
But it looks like it would only be once a minute, because that’s the interval between the “motion detected” event and the “cleared” event.
I wish the sensor had a command to disable/enable it. Actually, maybe it does, I haven’t researched it.
Having the sensor go off once a minute is not going to hurt your zwave network at all.
The only thing it might affect is the battery life of the sensor if it is battery powered.