I'm playing around with a Cortex trial at the moment before my first modules arrive and I am unsure how the stairs object comes into play. In plan view I have two floors with a hallway room on the ground floor and landing room on the first floor. The staircase is in two parts with a small landing in the middle (I have attached a couple of photos to show you what I mean). Presumably I add the stairs object at house level and link hall to upstairs landing? Doing this pops up an alert saying stairs are usually added to a room, in which case the upstairs or downstairs room?
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Andrew,
Can't help as I haven't "automated" my stairs yet. But I have exactly the same layout.
From what I have read the Stairs object is much the same as a door so they link two rooms from within the room. From this I assume stairs exist in the hall and lead to the landing.
I'm sure Karam or Viv will correct me.
Paul
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It will work if the stairs is placed anywhere. But like a door, you would expect to place it in the room where it physically is. Its purpose like a door is to link two rooms together i.e. the Hall and Landing. But unlike a sensed door it is always open. So it could be placed in the Hall or Landing. It is the connections that define the bottom and top of the stairs i.e. which rooms are linked. It means if movement is seen on the Landing and motion was last seen in the Hall it will transfer presence from the Hall to the Landing and visa-versa.
Your half Landing I think has the opertunity to provide more acurate tracking. If a PIR sensor could look at the half Landing area and not see movement in the Hall or Landing then the half Landing could be considered a room. You would add a stairs object between the Hall and half Landing and between the half Landing and Landing. This would mean the tracking goes from Hall to half Landing to Landing.
Viv
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interesting thread ... and the comment about stairs being similar to always-open doors is a helpful one ... eg: our place is very open-plan, with many such situations, involving stairs & passage-ways & vestibules, etc ... so the tricks being thought of here, for the half-landing, could be quite handy !
Presumably, the half-landing sensor wouldn't haver to be a PIR' - maybe a floor pad-switch, or a beam-breaker would do, or ...
Wonder if a Maxbotix (perhaps with a Picaxe to provide / improve the interface) would be an option ?
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What about a ceiling mount PIR. These look down and normally cover a circular area of about 10 to 15m or so. Some can be adjusted for sensitivity to help prevent false alarms. http://www.thecrowgroup.com/products...ly=4&prod=1450
manual here http://www.thecrowgroup.com/files/support/TLC_360.pdfIF YOU CAN'T FIX IT WITH A HAMMER, YOU'VE GOT AN ELECTRICAL PROBLEM.
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[QUOTE=... and the comment about stairs being similar to always-open doors is a helpful one
Don't foget that if you have rooms with doorways or openings between them you can add a door from the:
Tools | Design Network | Add Cortex Logic object | Door option
That is if you physically don't have it sensed or their is no actual door.
Later if you do automate it it can be re-assigned to a physical input.
The seperate linked rooms however need to be motion sensed to maintain tracking.
Viv
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