MMM-PIR-Sensor tuning

shgmongohh

Hi,

I have sucessfully installed the PIR-Sensor. Now I want to tune the Sensor. Is there a possibility to track, when the monitor is turned off?
I want to adjust the delay time and the distance.

Sebastian

Jopyth

@shgmongohh Does you sensor have these turn knobs, to adjust distance and time delay? Like here? Lets hope it does, all you need to do then, is turn them until the delay + distance work fine.

shgmongohh

@Jopyth
Yes, it has the knobs. But I want a programm which logged the time, when the monitor starts or shut down.
I unfortunatly cann´t programm it, because I don´t have the knowledge.

Sebastian

Jopyth

@shgmongohh And you want this, to adjust delay and distance accordingly? I have used a simple python program for that, maybe I can find it again.

Edit: Never mind, but if you just want to know, when the sensor goes off or on this tutorial might help.

shgmongohh

@Jopyth
I will try it.
I want to know if for example the monitor stays off during the night. I have the feeling, that he sometimes turns on when nobody is around. Thats the reason I want to trigger the on/off time.
When I have the times I can also adjust the minutes he stays on with the knob.

Sebastian.

shgmongohh

Can anybody tell me, how to write a python programm to trigger the on / off time of the monitor? My monitor starts during the night. I want to now how often he starts.

Sebastian

jc21

@shgmongohh I have forked the original MMM-Pir-Sensor repo and made some mods to debug my own sensor last week.

https://github.com/jc21/MMM-PIR-Sensor

If you add debug: true to the config of my forked code, you’ll get console info about when the sensor detects motion and when it doesn’t. Also note, I’ve renamed the sensorPIN config item to sensorGpio to more accurately indicate the numeric determination.

[MMM-PIR] [2016-10-04 09:31:07] Watching on GPIO #25 ...
[MMM-PIR] [2016-10-04 09:34:15] Motion no longer detected
[MMM-PIR] [2016-10-04 09:34:15] Turning Screen OFF in 30 seconds
[MMM-PIR] [2016-10-04 09:34:18] Motion detected
[MMM-PIR] [2016-10-04 09:34:18] Not turning monitor ON, its already ON

shgmongohh

@jc21
Thanks alot for your help. I was on vacation and will try it now.

Sebastian

shgmongohh

@jc21 said in MMM-PIR-Sensor tuning:

debug: true

One stupid question, how is the debug info started?

KirAsh4

As @jc21 suggested, add the line debug: true to the module’s config section, and restart MM, then look at the console log.