Upgrade Issues

[sethlampman]

So I have a strange one here and I don't know if there is a way to do this or not. I have blue iris triggering a vera virtual switch when AI detects motion on my front porch. Reactor then triggers the light, this works perfect. I want to shut the light off when there is no motion, this also works perfect. What I am having am issue with is when someone turns on the light manually I don't want it to turn off after motion is detected. Example: we are expecting a pizza so we turn on the porch light. 5 min later amazon delivers a package, trips motion. 10 min later Reactor is going to turn off the light. If I manually turn on the light before motion is detected I do not want reactor to turn it off. For the life of me I cannot figure the logic out. Does anyone have any ideas?

[toggledbits]

Please re-read the posting guidelines. You're welcome to ask questions like this, but unless you show the work you've done so far, you're leaving us with "how long is a piece of string?" as a starting point.

[tunnus]

Whatever rule you are using for a motion triggered light, you could just add a condition (or constraint) where you check that light is off?

[SweetGenius]

@sethlampman I use multiple rules and a global expression to hold the current state of the light that I set when different events happen. When motion triggers the light I set the global expression to “auto”. When the light comes on with no motion then it must of been turned on manually so that rule sets the expression to “man” I then have rules to to shut the light off for when motion happend and another rule for when it was turned on manually with different delays. When the light is off I set the global expression to idle. Does this give you any ideas for your situation?