How to I create a back-up motion sensors?

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Sun Aug 28, 2016 6:19 pm
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How to I create a back-up motion sensors?

So, I have several critical areas that I would like to have at lease two motion sensors detecting. One is my front drive. Having two sensors I'm less likely to miss a trigger if one has a low battery, sun hitting it...etc.

Rather than setting two duplicate triggers and therefore getting two separate actions (video clips/photos/alerts) how does one create one action from two triggers (being either of the two motions senors detecting motion)?

Thank you!

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Sun Aug 28, 2016 7:07 pm
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Re: How to I create a back-up motion sensors?

Trigger on a variable and have the motion sensors set the variable?

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Mon Aug 29, 2016 7:53 am
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Re: How to I create a back-up motion sensors?

Create a virtual device group made up of multiple sensors and have your triggers watch for changes to the virtual device group.

So, for example, I have this:
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Mon Aug 29, 2016 1:21 pm
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Re: How to I create a back-up motion sensors?

Virtual Device Group, I'll give that a try... thanks!

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