Event to turn on light on motion but also come on dimmer between a certain time frame

[Alarm_guy1]

Hi guys,

Just getting into HS and trying to shake of another HA system.
I currently have an event that turns a light on when motion is detected starts a timer and then the light goes off at the conclusion of the timer and also restarts the timer if subsequent movement is detected,
My issue is that on my old system between 11 at night and 5 in the morning I want the light to come on on motion but at say 10% dim level.
I have a dummy switch that should come on during them hours just not sure how to implement that into my current event.
Any help greatly appreciated

[Eman]

Hi guys,

Just getting into HS and trying to shake of another HA system.
I currently have an event that turns a light on when motion is detected starts a timer and then the light goes off at the conclusion of the timer and also restarts the timer if subsequent movement is detected,
My issue is that on my old system between 11 at night and 5 in the morning I want the light to come on on motion but at say 10% dim level.
I have a dummy switch that should come on during them hours just not sure how to implement that into my current event.
Any help greatly appreciated

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Eman.

[Alarm_guy1]

cheers i'll take a look

[Uncle Michael]

I currently have an event that turns a light on when motion is detected starts a timer and then the light goes off at the conclusion of the timer and also restarts the timer if subsequent movement is detected,
My issue is that on my old system between 11 at night and 5 in the morning I want the light to come on on motion but at say 10% dim level.
I have a dummy switch that should come on during them hours just not sure how to implement that into my current event.
Any help greatly appreciated

Welcome to the HS Board.
A strength of HS is that there are multiple ways to do almost anything, and that is definitely true of what you are describing. (It's also a source of confusion and frustration for new users, though, as you will soon learn.)

I think it would be useful to take at look at this post as a place to start - and then the rest of Randy's posts in the Event Clinic as you get the time.

To have two different behaviors depending on time of day, I'd recommend using a 'virtual device, which may be the same as what you call a 'dummy switch'.
Set the virtual device to 'Night' at 11 PM, and to 'Day' at 5 AM.
A primary event would be triggered by bathroom motion. It would have two actions, both running other events if their conditions are true (call them Day and Night).
The 'Day' event would have the condition that the virtual device is set to day and would:

• Delete any pending delayed device actions for the bathroom light
• Turn on the light normally
• Create a delayed device action to turn the light off after 5 minutes

The 'Night' event would be similar, but instead of turning the light on normally, it would turn it on at 10% intensity

[Alarm_guy1]

cool I will have a read up, yes sorry Dummy = Virtual, still in or HA mode.
Thanks for taking the time to respond