Lots of RF traffic from MS16A

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Lots of RF traffic from MS16A

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I have bought some motion sensors (MS16A) that I'm using around the house. I can program the motion sensor that it will send an off signal after X minutes. Problem is that is is always sending an 'on signal' when motion is detected. I would rather have it send an on signal when motion is detected. and not resend an on signal until the off signal was send. This would prevent a lot of traffic on my 310Mhz band. Anybody knows if this is possible or maybe can be modified?

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As far as i know this is the normal behavior. As long as there is motion detected, it will keep sending "ON", i think it is every 5-7 seconds. I don't know of any way to prevent this from happening.
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its every 10 seconds. it can't be changed.
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Here you see what happens when a MS13E constantly detects motion:

17:05:24 A08 ON
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17:05:53 A08 ON
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17:06:07 A08 ON
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Also see http://www.domoticaforum.eu/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1635
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Try a ms13 in the garden, then you have a party!!!
So bad that it's overloading the system. It reacts on bird's,cat's enz

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I have bought 14 ms14 and at some point en decided to cut down to 8 , to much traffic.
And it only give's one!!!! off signal, and that's missing in traffic.

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hmmm, I bought 15 MS16a's. I will have to decide where to ose them and cut down to 8 too.
I'm glad I use the 310Mhz version otherwise it would really mess up my (more important) 433Mhz band.
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Try to create no overlap.
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@Jaybee,
Maybe you can create aan script that set the ms16 off in HS after a xxtime.
The problem is always with the off signal.

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you can always use my watchdog script to overcome the missing off signals from the MS1x's
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