Domoticz Dummy Motion Sensor

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Domoticz dummy motion sensor.

I create a dummy sensor on domoticz and selector swith on that. Motionpie cam in domoticz with motion detection. Add a dummy motion sensor and find the id in setup devices in domoticz you ll need that to switch the virtual motion sensor through the api commands. The idea is simple.

Enter the name sound siren dummy and select switch in the sensor type drop down list. Wemos domoticz dummy device allow to recover measures temperature probe detector of presence or to send orders to a diy connected object for example a relay. Now find one of your ip cams you want to communicate with the dummy motion sensor and add the following two lines and change the bold parts to suit your needs. However the information will not be passed to the node without explicitly requesting it from the node.

Everything here is tested and is compatible with domoticz. Human body sensor motion sensor. All those products are linked to the right gearbest page so you can add them to your shopping cart easily. We will use this dummy switch to decide if we should start the siren.

It s not difficult to add a supported camera to domoticz setup more options camera add camera and then to add the camera to a dummy switch. Posted on september 7 2015 december 6. 10 that s it your dummy sensor should now turn on when it detects motion handling power outages while this worked well for me i had an issue with power outages i live in india where unplanned outages are relatively common and while the domoticz server runs off a ups the motion sensor doesn t. Don t forget to edit the switch so it s a motion sensor and set a custom off delay.

Motionpie won t trigger it off for you. Domoticz is a very light weight home automation system that lets you monitor and configure miscellaneous devices including lights switches various sensors meters like temperature rainfall wind ultraviolet uv radiation electricity usage production gas consumption water consumption and many more. Now i can simply update the text sensor via the selector swith json commands and the text sensor variable will be updated. Now on to building the events handling.

Virtual devices can also be used to display information retrieved from an online service weather air quality road traffic. In most cases the motion detection is not integrated in domoticz afaik but there are guides on how to do this. If you create a dummy switch in domoticz. The condition is that we are in alarm state motion triggered and that the delay time of 45 seconds has passed.