Routine To Temporarily Disable Motion Detector

[ajd123]

I have automated blinds in a specific room that open and close at sunrise and sunset.  These blinds trigger the motion.

Anyone have a clever idea how I can bypass the motion detector in a specific room based on the following conditions:

 

If current status of equipment --> home security --> home security is equal to armed | away THEN

Disable family room motion for 2 minutes before and 5 minutes after sunrise AND

Disable family room motion for 2 minutes before and 5 minutes after sunset.

 

Thanks

[Dr. Venkman]

I gather the problem with the motion being sensed is that it’s setting off your alarm?

The logic/programming in C4 shouldn’t be hard, but can your alarm even handle a request to bypass and then re-activate a zone while the system is already armed?

Have you asked your alarm company if the motion sensor can be configured (or moved) so it doesn’t register the blinds opening and closing as motion at all?

[Cyknight]

1 hour ago, Dr. Venkman said:

I gather the problem with the motion being sensed is that it’s setting off your alarm?

I would guess the same, and if they are, fix the problem, don't program around it -if it's possible at all as noted above- (ie dual sense motions or better placement).

 

 

[ajd123]

The motion is on its own zone, but what your saying makes sense.  Does DSC have functionality to allow a zone to be armed/disarmed while the rest of the system stays active.

Another workaround I came up with was to use C4 to program the blinds to open/close at sunrise/sunset rather that the somfy app itself (the native app for the blinds).  This way I can have the C4 system disable the routine to open/close the blinds in the rooms where the motion is triggering when the alarm is armed.

[Dr. Venkman]

20 minutes ago, ajd123 said:

Does DSC have functionality to allow a zone to be armed/disarmed while the rest of the system stays active.

I don’t know the answer to this, but bypassing zones after the alarm is active feels like it runs counter to the idea of arming a security system in the first place, and it wouldn’t surprise me if it was impossible. It’s akin to disarming the system, so I would guess the DSC would prefer to just be disarmed, then rearmed. In any event, it’ll likely require a disarm code, which you probably don’t want stored in C4 programming. 

26 minutes ago, ajd123 said:

Another workaround I came up with was to use C4 to program the blinds to open/close at sunrise/sunset rather that the somfy app itself (the native app for the blinds).  This way I can have the C4 system disable the routine to open/close the blinds in the rooms where the motion is triggering when the alarm is armed.

If you can’t get the motion detector fixed to not be triggered by the blinds, having C4 skip the raise/lower if the system is armed sounds much better to me than trying to bypass an armed system. 

[C4 User]

I assume this motion only activates when the system is armed to AWAY. If so, you might simply program the blinds in this room to close when the alarm system is armed AWAY. Another option might be to move the shade in 5% increments until it is fully opened/closed with a 60 second delay between movements (playing with the increment amount and delay setting until you motion does not get triggered.