MyQ garage control interfering with garage motion light switch.

[2K4CE]

ust installed the MyQ internet gateway in my garage.
I also have an overhead light which is attached to a (noname) motion sensing light switch. This switch has been great as long as I've had it.
The problem is, every 10 minutes on the dot, something triggers the motion sensing light switch (which triggers my alarm camera, which sends me ***tons of emails...)
The lightswitch is not a smart home device. No z-wave or myQ or anything. Just motion sensing.
As far as I can tell, there's nothing happening that it can "see." The garage door opener doesn't move. Just... every 10 minutes, it gets triggered, and the lights come on.
I suspect the MyQ garage opener has a "Call home" feature every 10 minutes that is somehow triggering this lightswitch.
Has anyone run into this before?

 

[cybrdyke]

Is the motion switch PIR, Passive Infrared? It should have some settings on it. One might be to choose to set it to a "vacancy" switch mode. If you have this option, try it. This defeats the automatic on, but not the automatic off. You have to manually turn the lights on, but not off.
Another is the delay setting. This is how long the lights stay on once the space becomes vacant. Play with this setting to see if you still get your consistant 10 minute issue. I'd shorten it as much as possible to see what happens.
The sensor needs to see two things: heat and motion. Is it near a heater? Is there an inanimate object moving in there? This can fool a sensor.
Just some thoughts...
CD

 

[kd3pc]

As the IoT gets really going, these events will be quite commonplace. Many of us have been lobbying the FCC to simply "enforce" the Part ** (insert number here) that they were built to and should comply with....

but they don't - manufacturers are free to sell devices with KNOWN interference issues - with zero consequences. It is always some one else's fault or config issues, or ...

Good luck solving this...

 

[ard]

As the IoT gets really going, these events will be quite commonplace. Many of us have been lobbying the FCC to simply "enforce" the Part ** (insert number here) that they were built to and should comply with....

but they don't - manufacturers are free to sell devices with KNOWN interference issues - with zero consequences. It is always some one else's fault or config issues, or ...

Good luck solving this...

Last thing we need is more regulations- just let businesses do what they want, the market will work it all out.



(I agree with you, but it aint happening...)