Why is my piston cancelling?

#1

1) Give a description of the problem
Condition #10 seems to cancel the Piston

2) What is the expected behavior?
I want when there is motion detected, to turn on the kitchen lights. I also want to store the current state of the lights and have the original original state of the light restored after 5 min

3) What is happening/not happening?
For some reason its cancelling after the time condtion is passed. I dont want to activate the piston during those times because sunrise triggers the motion detector on the ring door bell.

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#2

First of all…you have WAAAAAAYYYY too much going on here. I would suggest that you turn off True and False until you have a better handle on them. Because you’re not using them correctly.

I would set something up like this:

If Motion changes to active
Then
Set VAR1 = whatever
Set Var 2 = whatever
Set lights to how you want them for motion.

then a second statement in the same piston
If motion stays inactive for 5 minutes.
Set lights to VAR1 VAR2.

Is that enough for you to follow or do you need the whole piston. Cause that it gonna be a bigger ask. :slight_smile:

#3

Could you be more specific on how I’m using the true false wrong?

#4

Because you have both built into the if statement and then both written into the then statement but for a different device. You could write the entire piston without usine one true/false statement. You asked how you could get the piston to work…did you try what I suggested?