Occupancy settings
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Written by Sebastien Gouin-Davis
Updated over a week ago

Motion is detected with Amatis sensors. The Amatis App has two different modes for occupancy that we call Normal Hours and After Hours - both of which are configurable in the Location Settings drawer. Within each mode, you can set a grace period.

Keep in Mind: Normal hours will stay on 24/7 unless you include a schedule to trigger after hours.

Normal Hours Occupancy

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1. Normal Hours Occupancy is enabled as a default with each device.

2. Adjust Vacancy Timeout to choose how long the lights stay on once motion is detected.

Default settings are configured to:

  • Vacancy Timeout: 15 minutes (lights transition to Vacant Light-Level after 15 minutes after the last person leaves).

  • Occupied Light-Level: Lights will be on at 100% when the space is occupied.

  • Vacant Light-Level: Lights will be dimmed to 0% when there is no one in the space.

3. Click the bottom-right checkbox to save these settings.

Keep in Mind:

After Hours Occupancy

Enable a single space to have two different modes. Normal hours occupancy is likely the preference during normal work hours, and after-hours occupancy is a way to save even more energy because you don’t expect people to be congregating in a space but could expect occasional, short occupancy.

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1. Enable the slider for After Hours Occupancy and Daytime Nighttime.

2. Adjust Vacancy Timeout to choose how long the lights stay on once motion is detected.

Once you enable Daytime Nighttime, you will see the buttons that trigger both modes. Clicking Start Normal Hours will begin Normal Hours Occupancy, and clicking Start After Hours will trigger After Hours Occupancy.

3. Now you will need to adjust a schedule to trigger Normal Hours and After Hours. You will first need the LinkIDs of each function. You can find these in the scenes tab next to Start Normal Hours and Start After Hours.

4. Set the schedules to trigger each scene using the LinkIDs and you're done! For more information on how schedules work, follow this link.

Normal Hours will trigger when you have chosen normal hours to start and end when you have chosen for after hours to begin. After hours will begin when you have chosen after hours to start and normal hours to begin.

Default settings are configured to:

  • Vacancy Timeout: Lights transition to the Vacant Light-Level after 5 minutes after the last person leaves. We choose a shorter default timeout because we expect occupants to be passing through the space, rather than congregating.

  • Occupied Light-Level: Lights will be on at 70% when the space is occupied.

  • Vacant Light-Level: Lights will be dimmed to 0% when there is no one in the space.

Grace Period

Enable this intermediate step between occupied light level and vacant light level during normal hours or after hours. For example, if you set a 45-minute occupancy timeout, with a 30 minute grace period, this feature will dim the lights down to the grace period light level after no occupancy detection for 15 minutes. After an additional 30 minutes of no occupancy detected, the lights would dim down to the vacant light level.

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1. Enable the slider for Normal Hours Grace Period and/or After Hours Grace Period.

2. Adjust Grace Period to choose how long the lights stay on.

Default settings are configured to:

  • Grace Period: Lights transition to the intermediate stage between Occupied and Vacant Light-Level after 1 minute after the last person leaves.

  • Light-Level: Lights will be on at 10%.

3. Click the bottom-right checkbox to save these settings.

Note: We do not recommend adding schedules to areas with occupancy control turned on. Occupancy overrides schedule, so your lights may still turn on after the designated scheduled off time if the sensors detect motion, and may turn off if the occupancy timeout is triggered after the lights are scheduled to turn on. The simplest method is to rely on occupancy in rooms with motion sensors and schedule lights when occupancy is completely off.

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