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How to get lights to turn on when we enter a room? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hey guys, I'm thinking about setting up HA. A big positive would be if our bedroom lights (Feit brand) turned on when we enter the room.

Or similarly in my office, I have an LED light that plugs in to a power strip, so I could use a motion sensor + a Wemo power switch I already have to trigger my office light to turn on.

What motion sensor works and isn't expensive?

Sidebar: also, is it possible to link a wifi connected light switch to operate our Feit bulbs? The lamp is plugged in to a socket that doesn't connect to the only light switch in the room and it gets old having to tell Google home every time we enter or leave the room.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Having gone through your journey about a year ago (complete with coming from Feit lights and plugs), I don't think you're going to find an integration that lets you control them (but if you do, please let me know!)

I use a lot of aquaria sensors (water/temp/presence), sengeled bulbs and outlets, and I think third reality is who makes my motion detectors. I've got my office, living room, kitchen/dining room and basement all hooked up with motion or presence activated lights, most of which have scenes that control what light is what color when. Definitely worth investing in equipment that hooks into HA natively, you can hack a lot of stuff together, but it's so much nicer when things just work.

I ended up going with a zigbee coordinator from Tubes ZB, as it was one of the better recommended ones, but you can go with a cheaper option if it fits your use case. I needed a network coordinator since my HA is virtual and wanted flexibility in where my stuff lives.