Lights That Come On When You Enter Room

Arduinonaut on may 27th 2015 at 11 00 am said.

Lights that come on when you enter room.

When a sensor detects motion it would change the status of lights but that would be both too complicated to program and not work correct 100 since when you are in the room and lights are on when someone walks in the room lights will turn off and vice versa. It was great and cheap less than 15 and was better than the single bulb pull chain fixture we had it came on automaticly turned off automaticly and had 2 sockets that i could twist to dorect the light anywhere in the room. With a manual on switch you turn on the lights when entering a room and then when you leave the area the switch shuts off the lights after a preset period. The philips hue motion sensor turns on your hue smart lights when it detects motion in the room.

How to set up the smartthings home monitoring kit. The one shown at left senses movement in a 900 square foot area. It s just right for utility rooms basements closets garages and similar rooms. Not as good an idea for say the bedroom where you might want to leave the lights off as you enter to prevent waking up the baby or spouse.

In our basement laundry room i replaced the light with a motion sensor fixture like you see on garages or houses. Enlarge image apple s home app can trigger light as you come and go and it comes with a couple of nice extra features. Lights that come on as soon as you enter the geofenced area around your home. If you re sick of having to find and fumble with the light switch every time you enter a dark room you can use smartthings to automate that process and have the lights turn on automatically when you enter.