How to turn off lights when no motion from Hue Sensor?

[yalag]

I see in the homekit app, I can set it to turn off lights if there is no motion. But I want to say no motion for 15 minutes. Is there a way to do that?

 

[Debauch]

Yup. If you trigger a light "on" the "turn off" option shows up on the last page of the automation setup. iOS11.

 

[yalag]

Yup. If you trigger a light "on" the "turn off" option shows up on the last page of the automation setup. iOS11.

No but I don't want the lights to turn off after 30 minutes it has turned on. I want it to turn off 30 minutes after there is no motion

 

[Debauch]

No but I don't want the lights to turn off after 30 minutes it has turned on. I want it to turn off 30 minutes after there is no motion

Got it. Sorry misread your question ... don't know then. Haven't seen an option to do that.

 

[wesley96]

It's actually quite easy to do on iOS 11. I have several Hue bulbs & Motion Sensors set up to do just that in my house.

Configure an automation to turn the lights on when the motion sensor does not detect motion. At the bottom of the configuration, set Timer to 30 minutes. The trigger ("does not detect motion") starts the automation ("turn the lights on") for the duration of the timer ("30 minutes"). Once the time is up, the light is turned off.

Now, this situation implies that the light would originally be turned on when motion is detected, so use this in tandem with an automation where it turns the lights on without any timer when motion is detected. Personally, there are some relatively rare cases where HomeKit misses the "does not detect motion" trigger, so I configure this automation with a timer of a much longer duration.