I have just about got the hall and landing lighting working the way that we want it (with a fair bit of help from Karam & Vivian), but have come across a small problem:
The PIR on the landing has been positioned to 'see' all of the bedroom doors, but unfortunately quite often detects movement past the bottom of the stairs, resulting in the landing lights coming on unnecessarily.
The Idratek controlled hall lighting is configured to come on for a period of time based on presence when it is dark both externally and internally (there are also manually controlled lights in the hall) and this works very well.
The landing lights were originally configured in the same way, but I have now included an operating period to minimise spurious switching on of the lights. This is not entirely satisfactory - the operating period is currently set as 21:00-08:00, but this means that outside this period the lights do not come on when someone comes up the stairs or moves around the landing even if the landig is dark
Is there a better way of avoiding false triggering of presence from the PIR so that I can do away with the operating period?
Thanks,
Martin
The PIR on the landing has been positioned to 'see' all of the bedroom doors, but unfortunately quite often detects movement past the bottom of the stairs, resulting in the landing lights coming on unnecessarily.
The Idratek controlled hall lighting is configured to come on for a period of time based on presence when it is dark both externally and internally (there are also manually controlled lights in the hall) and this works very well.
The landing lights were originally configured in the same way, but I have now included an operating period to minimise spurious switching on of the lights. This is not entirely satisfactory - the operating period is currently set as 21:00-08:00, but this means that outside this period the lights do not come on when someone comes up the stairs or moves around the landing even if the landig is dark
Is there a better way of avoiding false triggering of presence from the PIR so that I can do away with the operating period?
Thanks,
Martin
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