Here is a simple technique that you can use to tell you whether there has been
any motion in the house in the last few minutes !
It doesn't matter what time it is. When you get home, it is always a good thing to
ask your system whether the house is empty or not...
Choose all of your 'inside' sensors.
Here is an example of what you might do to create a 'new group' of sensors that
you want to check. These are taken from the XTension Demo database:
Now, we need a script which will test each of these units on demand, so we can
call it from any other script or event.
Here is a script that simply checks each of the motion sensors in the group 'all inside motion', and announces whether any have 'triggered' in the past few minutes :
Notice that this couples well with the wireless speakers which you will no doubt will want to add...
This script could be triggered at any time, even if you are already at home and
just want to check on some strange noise.
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Last modified: September 2, 2007
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