SENPILL & Day Move

I have a SENPILL in the middle of the lounge. Night move works a charm, Sunset works a charm, but if I try and set a group on using "Day Move" or MiL as it's also called on the Occupancy tab, nothing happens. Now admittedly I'm doing this at night and shining a torch at the PIR to make it think it's daytime. This method works for sunrise/sunset macros but not for "Day Move". Is my torch "blinding" the sensor, or am I missing something else?

 

The "Day Move" and "MiL" are two separate features of the unit and the two should not be confused with each other.

In short, Motion in Light tells the unit which C-Bus Virtual Keys (and therefore which C-Bus Groups) to "do stuff with" when motion is detected. This is configured on the Occupancy tab. Motion in Light sends motion events to the virtual keys that have a tick in the ML column.

Now, exactly what to do with those groups is another question. This is where the Function drop-down box for each Virtual Key comes in. The Day Move Function is a short-hand way of configuring a Virtual Key to keep a group address turned on as long as motion is detected. Day Move won't turn a group on, but it will keep it on.

If you want detected movement to turn on a group and run a timer when the light level is above the light level threshold of the unit you need to change the function of the Virtual Key from Day Move to Night Move. If you want something else to happen when motion is detected when the light level is above the threshold then you'd obviously change the Virtual Key Function to something else.

 

Ow Newman, that made my head hurt. If my expected outcome is:

Turn a group on whenever there is motion, at any light level, and keep it on as long as there is motion, but switch it off after 5 minutes of no motion. Then how do I approach it? I assumed I would assign the group in the "Day Move" section and set the time to 5 mins. Am I wrong? Also, I don't see any setting for light evel threshhold anywhere on the unit (physical or in toolkit).

Secondly, even with my various fiddling, I have to be on top of the sesnor and doing a _lot_ of jumping about to get it to see me, irrespective of twiddling the sensitivity screw. Is the sensitivity adjusted elsewhere in software that I'm missing?

 

If all you're looking to do is have the sensor turn on a light whenever there is motion then the default settings of the unit will do that. You just need to set the light level (configured on the Light Level tab) so that the ambient light level is always below the threshold set.

By default the sensitivity is assigned to Pot B. The most senitive setting is when Pot B is rotated fully clockwise. There is some intelligence in the unit to prevent it from flooding the C-Bus network with traffic so don't be too concerned if it takes a moment or two to respond when there is lots of motion detected.