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Hi,

there's one major issue in all the smart home platforms I know:
Motion sensors break manual actions. For example, if I manually activate a light switch, the motion sensor still starts the automation to turn the light off after x minutes. Of course you can check "if light is off", but there are scenarios where this simply doesn't work as intended.

With 3rd party Hue apps, you actually can disable and enable Hue's motion sensors, which works better. Still not perfect.

I'd like to make the suggestion to implement a function into Tuya to override automations by manual button presses. Motion sensors or automations then shouldn't have any effect on overridden lamps. This would make things a lot easier.

hi

let's confirm your feedback now. You created a series of linkage rules for Motion sensors control lights, and then found that you did not want the rules for Motion sensors to control lights to take effect again after you manually turned on the lights, right? Is it permanent? Then if you are using the tuya gateway, please provide the virtual id of the tuya gateway. You can view the device id in the details on the upper right corner of the app gateway interface, which will help us more, thank you

Thank you for your reply.
Maybe let me give you two examples to clarify things:

I go out in the garden at night. As the motion sensor registers movement, the light gets turned on and turned off after 3 minutes. I sit down and once the light turns off manually turn it on again using a button. Then I move. The motion sensor starts the timer again, and after three minutes the light turns off.
Ideally turning a light on manually would disable the motion sensor until the light gets turned off manually again to not mess with the light.

I go out in the garden on New Year's Eve. As I want to see the fireworks, I turn off all the lights. Because I move, the motion sensor turns on the lights again. It should be possible to set a "dark scene" where motion sensors get disabled until the scene switches.

As of now, I'm using some Hue sensors because they can be enabled and disabled easily. So I currently have no IDs for an existing setup. But I could setup a "test scenario" if you like. If you do some web searches, you will find other people with those issues too. They also use Hue because of this scenarios. But I'd like to be able to solve this problem in Tuya.

hi

I roughly understand what you mean, in fact, the motion sensor linkage control light rules configured in the tuya system, you can enable and disable in the "scene" - "automation". But after our communication, I understand that you actually want to operate a certain device by pressing buttons, or configure a certain scene to cover the execution of linkage, right? I think it would be a good idea. I will communicate with my colleagues. Thank you

Indeed, absolutely.
Turning on and off light with a button should optionally have priority over automations (in short).

Thank you.

hi

I communicated with my colleagues that the tuya system allows you to create a rule to enable and disable a motion sensor control light by pressing a switch. You can create a rule in 'Scene' - 'Automation' to switch on and off the motion sensor control lights that have been created

Incredibly helpful, thank you so much!