Design Pattern: Motion Sensor Timer

[watou (John Cocula)]

Great tutorial! Thanks for sharing it.

Just a note that the Expire binding is the brainchild of Michael Wyraz; I just pushed it along a bit.

Please test the new Expire Binding

Michael Wyraz wrote a new Expire binding that works on 1.8 and 2.0 beta. It simplifies the process of returning an item’s state to a default value, such as marking a stale sensor reading as Undefined, or turning off a motion sensor indication after some time. You just add this to your .items file: Number Temperature "Temperature [%.1f °C]" { zwave="12", expire="2m" } Switch LightSwitch "Light" { myq="2", expire="45s,OFF" } String Message "Message [%s]" { expire="1h,No activity for one hour!" …