Motion accessory does not work on Trigger Control Application

[BradJJ2000]

I’ve used my PIR’s on the trigger control application forever as I have some PAC logic to control things.
Maybe I’m breaking some CBUS rule or something.

Anyway, I setup a motion accessory in the plug-in Config with the correct ID and application 202 and the motion would not trigger in the Home app. I could see it triggering correctly on other CBUS gear.
I switched my PIR over to the lighting application (and reconfigured the plug-in) and it leapt into life.
Switched it back to 202 and it doesn’t work. Checked everything 4 times.

I’ll move my PIR’s over to lighting. Thought I’d report this as I’m guessing it’s supposed to work.

[JasonY00]

Hi BradJJ2000,

The motion detector works by a simple binary ON/OFF scenario that takes the standard lighting application response from C-Bus of 0/255 for OFF/On and converts it to 0/1. It is not compatible with the trigger control application messages even if you change the application address as the message format is different in C-Bus.

I can only recommend that you create some logic or if possible set up your PIR to also send a trigger control message for your C-Bus and a lighting message for your Homebridge. Not sure if you can set this up in the PIR to send a message on both the primary and secondary applications at the same time. I have not done this, Otherwise, some logic in your PAC for some one-to-one mapping of a lighting GA to follow a Trigger GA will do the trick. Then define the PIR in homebridge back onto your lighting application and you will be good to go. It's a bit of a fiddle and a duplicate of GA's in two applications, but will achieve what you want.

Cheers

Jason

[BradJJ2000]

Thanks Jason.
my PIRs are old and don’t support a secondary application.
I think I’ll just leave them on the lighting application.
thanks again for your response.

[JasonY00]

No problem. Remember, writing the logic in the PAC will also give you what you want. Just chose which application you want the PIR’s to be on and write the one-to-one mapping as above for the secondary application to follow the first. There will only be a small delay.