How do you trigger your light?

Post by **mholtkamp** » Sun Nov 08, 2009 11:15 pm

HI,

I've the dusk/dawn/movement sensor MS13E. Thisone has a a dusk dawn sensor and a motion detection. The motion detector can be used for turn on/off the lights. But I can't use the dusk/dawn sensor for trigger the lights.

If i trigger the lights on sunset/sunrise then sometimes it's yust to dark before sunset (bad whether etc.).

My question is... How do you turn your lights on/off?

Post by **Rene** » Mon Nov 09, 2009 10:15 am

Why can't you use the dusk/dawn detection for triggering your lights? I use it for triggering my lights.

Rene.

Post by **mholtkamp** » Mon Nov 09, 2009 8:18 pm

If I use the dusk/dawn sensor to turn on the lights, the lights go off if it's not dark, if the lights are no, it's dark

Post by **Digit** » Mon Nov 09, 2009 9:47 pm

I use this 1 for outside lights:
http://blog.hekkers.net/2009/01/06/new- ... wn-sensor/
You can set the darkness at which it has to switch yourself IIRC; default setting was ok for me.

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Post by **Alexander** » Mon Nov 09, 2009 10:26 pm

@mholtkamp: correct because the sensor sees the light as daylight. Place the motion sensor not near the light. Or place another one in a different room without light (or outside). The only problem with outside placement is that there is enough light outside when its dark inside. You have to mod the MS13 to trigger the sensor later.

Alexander

Post by **Stevexyz** » Tue Nov 10, 2009 12:07 am

Sunrise/sunset times don't work - there might be heavy cloud or a solar eclipse (8-) But my MS13 too sees the outside lights as daylight; there's nowhere else I can position it. So... if it's dark AND there's motion, it turns the light on for 50 seconds then it turns it off again. That seems to work OK for me
Steve

Post by **Alexander** » Tue Nov 10, 2009 12:14 am

Steve, read this one (http://www.laureanno.com/x10-mod1.html): "Adding a Dusk/Dawn Sensitivity Adjustment"

Alexander

Post by **Stevexyz** » Tue Nov 10, 2009 10:21 pm

That's a really good site, thank you.

Steve

Post by **Tozz** » Mon Nov 30, 2009 10:24 pm

There is another option if you're using HomeSeer (or any other device that has sunrise/sunset times)

Another option is to trigger another housecode and use an HS event. For example, your light is on A1. You set the MS13 to P1. In HS you create an event that will turn on A1 if it receives P1-ON AND it is past sunset.