As Karam said in a recent post light automation is not that easy in all cases. Perhaps someone can help with my kitchen light problem ...
The kitchen has two sources of natural light, a window at the side of the house about 1.5m from a fence and then through a double doorway into another room which has excellent natural light.
I have automated this in two ways (at different times)
1) internal light sensor (MFP near door) and external light sensor
problems; if I set the external sensor to optimise kitchen light the lights in other rooms come on inappropriately early as they get more natural light than the kitchen.
2) Internal light from MFP and manual threshold set on external ight meter.
Pro; most lights in house OK
Con: sometimes "oscillatory" kitchen light behaviour as the manual threshold get triggered / untriggered changing the current over-ride mode.
One observation I have is that while there is historesis for an analogue level in the set-up there is no temporal element to this. So someone walking past a light meter on an MFP or wall plate briefly but substantially interrupting the light level can trigger a threshold, a damped temporal response would help here without I think affecting the other behaviours (at least for lights). This would help in several rooms where entering the room briefly shades the light meter and causes the light to switch on uncessarily. Does anyone know if this is user editable?
It would also help if it were possible to set multiple thresholds (on the outside light meter), maybe I need a more sophisticated control than light on/off to prevent strage interactions with the override state - any ideas??? OR to be able to set the thresholds within the connections options....
Other ideas on how to improve light automation much appreciated. In some rooms we very rarely use the switches, in others it is all too often!
TIA
Jon
Jon
The kitchen has two sources of natural light, a window at the side of the house about 1.5m from a fence and then through a double doorway into another room which has excellent natural light.
I have automated this in two ways (at different times)
1) internal light sensor (MFP near door) and external light sensor
problems; if I set the external sensor to optimise kitchen light the lights in other rooms come on inappropriately early as they get more natural light than the kitchen.
2) Internal light from MFP and manual threshold set on external ight meter.
Pro; most lights in house OK
Con: sometimes "oscillatory" kitchen light behaviour as the manual threshold get triggered / untriggered changing the current over-ride mode.
One observation I have is that while there is historesis for an analogue level in the set-up there is no temporal element to this. So someone walking past a light meter on an MFP or wall plate briefly but substantially interrupting the light level can trigger a threshold, a damped temporal response would help here without I think affecting the other behaviours (at least for lights). This would help in several rooms where entering the room briefly shades the light meter and causes the light to switch on uncessarily. Does anyone know if this is user editable?
It would also help if it were possible to set multiple thresholds (on the outside light meter), maybe I need a more sophisticated control than light on/off to prevent strage interactions with the override state - any ideas??? OR to be able to set the thresholds within the connections options....
Other ideas on how to improve light automation much appreciated. In some rooms we very rarely use the switches, in others it is all too often!
TIA
Jon
Jon
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