Automatic Hall Lighting
FlowBits makes it easy to implement automatic hall lighting in your home. By combining a few different flow cards, you can easily create a system that responds to motion and modes. This example uses Philips Hue lights, but any smart lighting device should work.
What you'll get
Your hall lights will turn on with a dimmed state when a mode is activated and turn on to full brightness when motion is detected. The lights will go back to dimmed state when motion stops long enough.
Requirements
- A motion sensor.
- Smart lights.
- A Mode for when the lights should turn on. This example will use Evening.
- Scenes configured in your Hue app.
- Hall dimmed — This scene will be activated when Evening is activated. A good start will be a scene where all lights are dimmed to 5%.
- Hall bright — This scene will be activated when motion is detected.
Flow
Step 1
The lights should turn on to a dimmed state when Evening is activated.
FlowBits
Evening is activated
Philips Hue
Activate the Hall dimmed scene
Step 2
The lights should turn off when Evening is deactivated.
FlowBits
Evening is deactivated
Philips Hue
Turn all lights off in Hall
Step 3
When motion is detected, the lights should turn on to full brightness.
Motion sensor - Hall
The motion alarm turned on
FlowBits
Evening is active
FlowBits
Stop timer Hall Motion
Philips Hue
Activate the Hall bright scene
Step 4
When motion stops for a while, the lights should go back to dimmed state.
Motion sensor - Hall
The motion alarm turned off
FlowBits
Evening is active
FlowBits
Start timer Hall Motion with 3 seconds
FlowBits
Timer Hall Motion finished
Philips Hue
Activate the Hall dimmed scene