After the PIR on our external lights failed, I decided to replace the lights themselves with Hue bulbs, and to use the G410 doorbell camera to detect people or vehicles in our courtyard and thence to trigger the outside lights and an indoor welcome light for a five minute period. Managed as an Apple Home automation.
The problem appears to be that the automation is being continuously triggered, as follows:
- with the outside lights disabled, the automation will trigger the indoor light, but only if the doorbell’s own night light is disabled.
- with the outside lights enabled, the automation is continously being triggered - as soon as it times out, it triggers again.
My working assumptions therefore are that:
- In Home at least, the detection trigger for the G410 operates at the most basic detection level and does not use the options to restrict the trigger to the People/Vehicles/Animals/packages settings in Home;
- It therefore is triggered by anything, including both its own light and the lights triggered by the automation switching off, thereby causing it to turn back on again immediately.
So my questions are:
- is there a way in the home integration to make the automation use the higher level discrimination of the people/vehicle settings in triggering the automation?
- If not, would moving the integration from Home to Home Assistant provide access to finer-grained tailoring of the triggering of the automation and/or to set a refractory time?
TIA…
