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Hi you all.
I cant understand how to use the APPS in a efficient way. Tried several APPS some times they work but they are to simple for my purpose.
I need to Turn a Hall light when motion or a door opens and leave the light on for 60 seconds.
So the light should come on when: Motion is detected, Door opens , or light switch turns on the light .
Is this complicated? Im feeling that this APPS are not the way to go.

Apps are simple because you should do simple things with them.

As I see it you want to do two things:

- turn on light when motion is detected
- turn off light after 60 seconds.

to turn on light you can either react to an event from your motion detector and use something like 'If -> Then' (if motion detected turn on light... '.

Doing so might run into the problem that these kind of events seem to have a couple seconds lag which isn't nice if you are standing in the dark.

What I did was an association of the motion detector with the light I want to switch on. This works rather well.

Your second task is to turn the light of after 60 seconds.
This should be possible with the 'Automated Switch Off' App.
Again you might get a problem that you need to differ between a turn on via motion detector where you turn off the light after 60 seconds and turning on via the switch where you don't want to turn of the light.