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autoSteve / acMqtt

CBus Automation Controller: Home Assistant, MQTT, Philips Hue and more (for the SHAC/NAC/AC2/NAC2)
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CBUS PIR sensors as binary / lux entities? #13

Closed arrikhan closed 1 year ago

arrikhan commented 1 year ago

Hi,

Is it possible to expose cbus pir sensors ? I believe occupancy (motion) and lux levels may be available?

autoSteve commented 1 year ago

Set up a group to trigger on movement with a short timer like 5s in the block and: MQTT, bsensor, sa=Carport, on=Motion detected, off=No motion

LUX is not available AFAIK. For some sensors, like the 5753PEIRL the light level may be broadcast periodically as a 0-255 group. MQTT, sensor, sa=Carport, pn=Carport Light Level, unit=%, dec=0, scale=0.390625,

arrikhan commented 1 year ago

Brilliant! Thanks so much for this solution. I have eight of these sensors and they've now become useful for HA automation outside of CBUS. Is it worth adding this to the readme (ie: how to combine your bsensor configuration for CBUS PIR sensors?). Us lesser beings sometimes haven't put 2 and 2 together in setting up 'virtual' CBUS groups to link to the sensors to complete the puzzle.

autoSteve commented 1 year ago

😅 Hardly a lesser being mate. Just consider yourself smarter. We're smarter every day.

Glad to hear it. I've done this so many times with PIR sensors that it ceases to be a 'trick', just "what do"...

Cheers, and glad it helped.