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Timed light to be on in evening and infra red triggered for rest of night?

Hi there

I currently have the light above my front door on a motion sensor which means it will come on from dusk til dawn when it detects motion.

However, I'd like to be able to have the light on permanently for a few hours in the evening, before becoming motion sensitive for the rest of the night.

So I'm looking to do:

Dusk to (say) 11pm - ON
11pm to dawn - motion triggered
dawn to dusk- OFF

I've not been able to find anything on the market that does this - I can either have a timer on the light switch (which would kill the motion sensing once it switches off), or the motion sensor setup that I currently have (with the lightswitch always set to on).

Does anyone have any suggestions for how I could combine them both without needing to run an arduino or something...?

Thanks

Tom

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  • matelodave
    matelodave Posts: 9,149 Forumite
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    Two separate lights? or I have seen IR lamps that have a constant low level illumination which brightens when someone come into it's detection range.


    The alternative is to get a fitting with two bulbs and have separate feeds, one from an IR detector and one from a timeswitch.
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