Outdoor Luminance Sensor

[rpwong (Russ)]

@scoobydrvr

I’ve been watching the value as the sun has come up.

That must have been like watching paint dry.

@scoobydrvr

I just need to know what sunny, cloudy, and dark look like for my rules to work.

You might want to consider also using Diffuse Radiation from Astro. You might be able to combine the data to get a sense of “how much light there should be” and “how much there actually is”.

(Solved) OH3 - Rule trigger but only if after sunset

I also use lux levels but I get them from the astro binding “diffuse radiation” value as I don’t have a light sensor yet. I use it in many rules including motion sensor lighting, christmas lighting (with 3 lighting levels defined for all on, only inside on and all off), exterior lighting auto-off triggers.