motion sensor for existing outdoor light

#Motion sensor for existing outdoor light install

You can find a list of several here from which you can choose the right size and depth to match your siding and the fixtures mounting plate. You may find it easier to fish the cable if you change to the siding box and plate that is large enough to look like it was placed there for the larger back bonnet of the fixtures. One such company is Arlington Industries, Inc. I suspect that varies with the brand and manufacturing practices of the original source of those boxes. I have sometimes been able to fish a #14 UF cable in one of the slots behind the siding were the surface comes out to imitate clapboard siding. Run a new cable out to the end of the porch which is on the side of the door were the fixture box has 2 cables connected to it after you confirm that the other fixture box has only 1 cable connected to it already.

#Motion sensor for existing outdoor light install

You could also forgo this awareness and use schedules for the scene triggers that coincide with the landscape lighting schedule.It would be more elegant but also more work to take a cable from some place on the door lights supply cable were you can install a box or add connections to an existing box. If the landscape lighting isn’t Z-Wave or otherwise detectable, then I would add a relay powered by the landscape lighting that trips a Z-Wave door/window sensor to tell Vera when the landscape lighting is on. Worst case this would require two in-wall relays and some means of determining the state of the landscape lighting.

Have another scene that turns the relay(s) On when the landscape lighting is turned Off.(You could substitute PLEG for the scenes. Have a scene that turns the relay Off when the landscape lighting is turned on. This might be a single in-wall relay inside that switches the circuit of both lights, or it could be an in-wall relay in each of the light’s enclosures. Place a Z-Wave relay in the circuit(s) that power the exterior motion sensing lights. I think that the best Z-Wave solution presently available to would be to: The present system of discrete Z-Wave motion sensors and Z-Wave relays is the most flexible and probably the most cost effective, unless you try to do each light independently. But that would still be a limited market device retailing for $50-$100 per light. It would be nice if a vendor would offer a combination Z-Wave motion sensor and relay allowing you to retrofit any light fixture. Adding a Z-Wave one costs $20 or more so there are none. I hope I was clear sorry, but English is not my first - I’ll bet that if someone did, you’d avoid the purchase because you didn’t like the style of light that they came out with.Īdding a standard PIR motion sensor to a light fixture costs pennies, so there are lots of choices. Is that’s not possible, you can use another zwave relay that would still be controlled by the one which controls the landscape light. What seems the harder part here is making possible to bring to the landscape wall switch the AC power of the security lights. The in-wall switch controls just the landscape light but when you turn it on/off, you need to turn off/on the other relay. You will need to bring AC power to a in-wall single switch, then you have to use 2 circuits, one for the security lights, and one for the landscape lighting. Not being an expert, I think you can “easily” accomplish this with just one 2x1.5Kw Relay Switch from Fibaro (or any other switch that controls 2 relays). Has anyone seen any progress in this area? My searches haven’t turned up a solution - but maybe I’m just using the wrong keywords in a google search. Install a smart switch inline to the lights in a weatherproof enclosure.Īll this stuff would need to be outdoor rated - that is humidity up to 100%, temp ranges from -10c to 40c and the like. Replace the existing motion/daylight sensing security lights with new ones that have zwave/zigbee smarts in them - that doesn’t yet seem to exist oddly enough. Replace the flood light bulbs in the existing fixtures with smart flood light bulbs - the offering of exterior use floodlight bulbs in zwave/zigbee seems limited. To accomplish this I figured there are several options: They work fine, but when I turn on my landscape lighting, I want those security lights to be disabled to prevent them coming on. Ive got two outdoor security lights that have built in motion sensors and light up (2 floods), hardwired to the A/C power, and without switches. Resurrecting this thread, since its several years later and I don’t seem to find any solutions yet (still).