The same story my sensor notification in the kitchen at this moment 90 lx I set ambient light sensor on minimum 40 lux and max 400 lux lights whont on. They only turn on when the light sensor is completely covered. Main motion sensor/Trigger is presence sensor
Found solutiona long time ago I installed the adaptive light add-on I forget about this which automatically added my kitchen lights entity. I removed entity form Adaptive Lights and all works great.
I do have this on my list to do so it is on the road map but I don’t want to guarantee or give false hope to when this will happen. Thanks for you suggestion.
@Blacky I have about 30 Smart & Sensor BPs so far. I’ll have at least 50 by the time I’m at full production. One ask is a way built-into the BP to indicate when its in Bypass. I know we can monitor the bypass entities in a separate automation, but that is a lot of work, and a lot of additional automations just to monitor entities that only do 1 thing… bypass your BPs. Having the BP itself set a Helper Entity would save a ton of work!
side note: it would be useful to have a ‘warning’ timeout where the lights fade down/up prior to the bypass timeout or (for Sensor Light for no motion timeout)… so the user would know they are running out of time.
IMO the best for everything is to combine Smart & Sensor BPs because the function difference between them is the initial trigger (motion, switch, etc – which should not matter, its just a trigger). Then add the motion sensor option as a bypass… when motion is detected, it restarts the bypass timeout.
– this would combine all your functions into a single BP and provide the most flexible automation for lighting.
OK, back to the the initial thought. The way you put it is funny but, yes… a single entity to hold bypass status for all Smart Light and Sensor Light automations. Use can quickly see which bypasses are on and have a one touch was to turn them all of off.
Think of this situation…
User is in a workshop/garage/office/etc
Want lights to stay on entire time
Motion sensors may not pickup motion due to the low-movement activity and/or location of sensors being blocked by cars, cabinets, etc.
both Smart Light and Sensor Light have this awesome ‘bypass’ so user sets a physical zwave relay switch (like from a very popular Zooz double switch) to be the bypass.
bypass timeout is either completely disabled or set to 4 hours (the max allowed) because the user works long periods of time in that location and its important lights for not going out (cutting wood vs cutting fingers off ; soldering electronics vs 3rd degree burns!, etc)
… either the bypass timeout is not set, or when leaving, the user forgets to physically click the relay button to disable bypass. The lights stay on forever.
If there is a ‘status’ entity showing that lights are in bypass, users have a single place (entity) to see status for all bypasses, turn all bypass off (manually or automation), and even provide notifications on after a given # of hours (6 hrs, etc)