How do I make the philipshue motion sensor not annoying?
I am mildly annoyed by my motion sensors, to the point I started regretting buying them and considering storing them away and not using them anymore.
As an example, I got home in the evening, I walked into my home office to check my computer, my light automatically turns on. It is set to be lit for about 10 minutes, after which it closes down. Usually I spend more time than 10 minutes here, so I always get annoyed to be distracted from my work by it shutting down. I have to walk to the switch and turn the lights on, in the meantime the sensor sees me again and turns them on. I walk to my desk, continue working, they shut down again after 10 minutes, repeating the process.
Same issue in my bathroom, the motion sensor is very helpful when I am there for a short amount of time, but when I want to take a shower or a long bath I need to get out of the water and shake my hand in front of it to turn the light on again. This situation is slightly worse than the mild annoyance from my office, it's high degree a**holery.
Am I missing something, a way to click my remote switches when my motion sensors activates to tell them that I don't want the light to be short term only, but to last until I shut them down? I sometimes turn the lights off, then back on just to ensure that the motion sensor doesn't dictate the closing time, however sometimes it doesn't work and the lights shut down after that time anyway.
Plus they have a thermometer in them, yet they don't actually display that information anywhere.