So, you have this cool motion sensing light. But, what if you only want the light motion sensing to work between 10pm and dawn? The easiest way is to make a couple of Time Date Trigger actions that will enable/disable the Front Porch Motion Detected that were created in the Motion Triggered Porch Light scenario. NOTE: this technique only works with the Motion Triggered Porch Light scenario - if you have directly linked your Motion Sensor to your switch via INSTEON links it will always work because Indigo won't be involved with the action. If you have Indigo triggering off of various device events, then you probably have something similar.
Time/Date Action List
from the View
menuNew…
button at the top of the main windowEnable Front Porch Motion Trigger
10:00 PM
from the first time selector in the Time
sectionActions
tabEnable Trigger Action
from the action Type
popup Front Porch Motion Detected
from the Enable:
popupNew…
button at the top of the main windowDisable Front Porch Motion Trigger
Sunrise
in the Time
sectionActions
tabDisable Trigger Action
from the action Type
popup Front Porch Motion Detected
from the Disable:
popup
That's it! Now, the motion sensing will only happen between 10pm and sunrise.
In Indigo 5 and greater, we significantly enhanced the condition editor and added a bunch of new conditions. One new condition is the ability to specify time ranges. So, rather than making two triggers as above, simply define the triggers as specified in the Motion Triggered Porch Light scenario - except on the Conditions tab specify “If time” “is between” “10:00pm” and “6:00am” (not exactly dawn, but close). This makes the solution much simpler.