10 that s it your dummy sensor should now turn on when it detects motion handling power outages while this worked well for me i had an issue with power outages i live in india where unplanned outages are relatively common and while the domoticz server runs off a ups the motion sensor doesn t.
Domoticz dummy motion sensor.
It s not difficult to add a supported camera to domoticz setup more options camera add camera and then to add the camera to a dummy switch.
Domoticz is a very light weight home automation system that lets you monitor and configure miscellaneous devices including lights switches various sensors meters like temperature rainfall wind ultraviolet uv radiation electricity usage production gas consumption water consumption and many more.
In most cases the motion detection is not integrated in domoticz afaik but there are guides on how to do this.
Xiaomi zigbee z wave 433mhz all those protocols and standard are compatible with domoticz.
After that i define a v text sensor on the node.
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However the information will not be passed to the node without explicitly requesting it from the node.
Everything here is tested and is compatible with domoticz.
Motionpie cam in domoticz with motion detection.
Wemos domoticz dummy device allow to recover measures temperature probe detector of presence or to send orders to a diy connected object for example a relay.
The condition is that we are in alarm state motion triggered and that the delay time of 45 seconds has passed.
Now on to building the events handling.
Human body sensor motion sensor.
Add a dummy motion sensor and find the id in setup devices in domoticz you ll need that to switch the virtual motion sensor through the api commands.
Again google is your friend.
I create a dummy sensor on domoticz and selector swith on that.
Now find one of your ip cams you want to communicate with the dummy motion sensor and add the following two lines and change the bold parts to suit your needs.
Enter the name sound siren dummy and select switch in the sensor type drop down list.
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We will use this dummy switch to decide if we should start the siren.
The idea is simple.
Motionpie won t trigger it off for you.
If you create a dummy switch in domoticz.
By giving a device real or dummy in domoticz a name constructed by adding a pre determined prefix to an existing device group name lua is used to detect when any device with that prefix changes state and to carry out a specific action on an existing physical device group defined already in domoticz and named without using the helper prefix.
