Motion detector behavior question

[Thomas D Arman]

If you remove the else clause, then only "LateNight" actions will occur.

I think it is that simple.

Tom

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xtensionlist-bounces at shed.com wrote on 06/09/2008 11:03:01 AM:

> 
> Charles Pendleton 
> 

> All,
> 
> I have a motions detector that is in my kitchen that controls rope 
> lighting that is atop my kitchen cabinets.  My hope was that when we 
> need to come down in the middle of the night for cough medicine or "I 
> need a drink to go back to sleep mommy", that the rope lights would 
> turn on and off accordingly.
> 
> They in fact do; however, when the argument of "Latenight" is false, 
> and the lights happen to be on because we want them on, whenever 
> someone trips the detector, the lights turn out.
> 
> Here is the on script of the motions detector:
> 
> 
> if (status of "LateNight") is true then
>    try
>       suspend event "Kitchen: Over Cabinet Lights" for 3 * minutes
>    on error
>       turnon "Kitchen: Over Cabinet Lights" for 3 * minutes
>    end try
> else
>    turnoff "Kitchen: Over Cabinet Lights"
> end if
> 
> 
> The question is - how do I get the motion sensor to continue to log 
> motion (all hours of the day), do its "latenight" thing as desired, 
> BUT NOT shut the lights off when we actually want them on?
> 
> THanks,
> Charlie-