HAI / Lutron Light restore state function?

[bgoldak]

Hi, I have an HAI Omnipro system that controls a Lutron Homeworks lighting system.

I have some outdoor lights that I want to run at low level for asthetics, but then run them up to 100% if there is a local motion sensor trip.

I set the lights to low on a timed "at sunset" trigger and then if there is local motion, set the lights to 100% for 2 minutes. Trouble is that after 2 minutes, the lights go off, rather than back to the desired low level and then will stay OFF until the next sunset.

A brute force way to fix it (kind of) would be to run the low level setting periodically (say every 5 minutes) after sunset to restore them from OFF after the motion time period has run out, but there would always be a random period of OFF (between 0 and 3 minutes) while waiting for the low level command.

Is there a more elegant way such as storing the previous light level somehow before turning them full on after the motion trip, and then resetting to that saved level?

Thanks

 

[cornutt]

You could trigger on the OFF event for the lights. Something like:

WHEN Landscape Lights OFF
  AND IF DARK
   THEN SET LIGHTING LEVEL Landscape Lights TO 20%

As you might suspect, IF DARK is true between sunset and sunrise.