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Aeotec Motion Sensor

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Written by Tom Rankin
Updated over 8 months ago

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This is the Aotech Multisensor 6. Primarily we use this as a motion detector. It has a

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couple of additional sensors on it that will detect the light level, the temperature, and

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the humidity. Another thing to note about this device is that the way motion sensors work is

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they really only trigger when there's a change. If there hasn't been any motion in the room for

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some time and somebody walks into the room, it will say motion is detected. And as long

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as somebody stays in the room and continues to move occasionally, it will continue to

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register that motion is detected. When everybody leaves the room, it'll process for about four

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minutes and after that four-minute period, if there's not been any new motion, it will

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say motion is no longer detected. To include this device, start inclusion on your controller,

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and press the action button on the back of the device twice. You'll see the note is detected.

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It takes just a few, few seconds to interview. That's a little bit longer than some devices,

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not as long as the Siren. We'll say typically this is a room, so we would say this is living

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room movement. The rest of the default should be fine. Update the sensor. To exclude the device,

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start exclusion on the controller, and press the action button twice. It's been detected we

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want to remove it and the device has been removed. The best way to verify that this

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device is working as expected is to find some place in the living room or wherever you're

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going to mount it and place it face down so that it can't detect any motion and that will

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cause it to time out. Then if you go to the dashboard, simply turn the device upright

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and you'll see that motion was detected in the living room. This device is working as expected.

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Rules. The motion sensor is a sensor only. It doesn't take any commands,

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so it really only triggers events. Let's add a new rule into the system.

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I'll show you the triggers that are available for this device. You can use the sensor state change,

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select your device, you can detect tampering and motion. When motion is detected or not detected,

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then you can add additional actions as you want. When motion is detected or when motion is not

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detected, you can add conditions. If you want to use the sensor as a condition, you can say sensor

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state change, living room, when motion is detected. So for example, you could make this rule

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when the door opens and motion has been detected in the room, you can perform an action. The

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additional triggers that you can add are the numeric value changes. So you can detect when

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the battery level goes to a certain point, when the temperature reaches a certain point,

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when the illuminance reaches a certain point, and when humidity reaches a certain point.

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Select the value you want, set the range above or below that you want,

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and then trigger the action as necessary.

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