Control hierarchy

Control hierarchy

The control hierarchy allows manual lighting control and automatic lighting control to work together. Manual control is any physical action, like selecting a scene by tapping on the scene icon in the app, pushing a switch, push button, or Bluetooth touch panel, or Enocean switch. Automated control is, for example, commands generated by motion sensors and schedule. There are three parts of control in the Koolmesh system: motion sensor auto control, manual control, and schedule control.

● Motion sensor auto mode
The behavior of the motion sensor, it can be divided into two different modes in the Koolmesh system: auto mode and semi-auto mode.
Auto
After the sensor is triggered, the scene is automatically called. The luminaires will be turned off after expiration of hold time & stand-by time.
Semi-auto
The sensor is only activated on the manual press of a Push switch, or via touch panel, or via Enocean switch, or via the app. The luminaires keep being on in the presence and turn off automatically after expiration of hold time & stand-by time (absence detection mode).

● Manual control
Action from App, Push switch, Bluetooth touch panel and Enocean switch.

● Schedule control
Users can create a schedule based on the date, week, time, or sunrise sunset time to recall a specific scene.

Sensor mode and mode priority

● Sensor auto + sensor prior to manual control
When there is no schedule involved, the motion sensor will be the highest priority in the system. When the motion sensor is triggered, it will make the luminaires into the hold time scene immediately no matter if the luminaires are in what status. For example, when users dim down the brightness through the Push switch, then when they trigger the motion sensor, the luminaires will recall the hold time scene immediately. After hold time, if there is a stand-by time scene, it will also activate the stand-by time scene, after stand-by time, the luminaires will turn off.

● Sensor auto + manual prior to sensor control
When there is no schedule involved, the manual control will be the highest priority in the system. When the motion sensor is triggered, it will automatically run the hold time scene and stand-by time scene. But if the users use the app, push switch, Bluetooth touch panel or Enocean switch changed the luminaires status (brightness and CCT). Then the luminaires will go to manual control status. Users can decide how long the manual control needs to be implemented. They can define how to quit manual control in two ways, first is in the luminaires setting, in the “how to quit manual override”. There are 5 options for the users to choose. They can decide to quit or not quit or how long time to quit (automatically quit). The other one is in the push setting; they can define the single press or double press function to “sensor take over”. When the users single press or double press on the Push switch, then the luminaires will switch back to the auto mode (manual quit).

● Semi-auto + sensor prior to manual control
When there is no schedule involved, the motion sensor is only activated on the manual press of a Push switch, or via touch panel, or via Enocean switch, or via the app. Which means only when the users turn on the luminaires, then the motion sensor is activated. Then users trigger the motion sensor, it will activate the hold time scene and stand-by time scene. If no movements are detected, then the luminaires will go off. Users need to manually turn on the luminaires again to make the motion sensor work again.

● Semi-auto + manual prior to sensor control
When there is no schedule involved, the motion sensor is only activated on the manual press of a Push switch, or via touch panel, or via Enocean switch, or via the app. After the users manually turn on the luminaires, then activate the motion sensor, the motion sensor will not recall the hold time scene due to "manual prior to sensor control". It will stay in the manual control. For example, if the users use the push switch to turn on the luminaires and trigger the motion sensor, then the luminaires will stay at this manual brightness and CCT for hold time (default is hold time, depending on “how to quit manual override” setting). After hold time, then the stand-by time scene will be recalled, after stand-by time, the luminaires will go off. Apparently in this case, the luminaires will never run the hold time scene, but it will recall the stand-by time scene after hold time expires.