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

tominghana
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in Energy
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
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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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.Never under estimate the power of stupid people in large numbers0
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