Thank you so much for sharing this video! I am a female that recently moved into my first home. My parents were divorced - my father always had apartments growing up and my mother always 'called someone,' so there were a lot of housekeeping things I never learned from my parents and couldn't ask. When I realized last night that our porchlight has a motion sensor that does not turn off (and I wanted to switch to a smart bulb for halloween), I was tempted to buy a new light... But instead I did some digging and found this video. Our light is set up almost exactly like this, so using this video I was able to rewire the light today and can now use my smart bulb. I'm so grateful for people like you who are able to be the 'dad's' of the internet, to help myself and my partner get through living in our first home. :)
Outstanding video information . I had 3 outdoor lamps that a lightening strike killed the sensors on. I was getting power to the socket but the light didn’t work. I routed the red out of the configuration and now I have all 3 working as switched on off. I plan on putting a timer inside the house You saved me a few hundred dollars. Thanks
I am so glad I found this instructional video! I have a very nice porch light, but the motion sensor quit working rendering the light useless. It is dangerous for us and the delivery drivers not having a well lit porch at night. I found this video, and removed my light fixture, rewired it, and now it works just perfect with the switch. I think I will get a smart bulb for the light now! Thanks again!
My wife just bought the same light fixtures and I approved without researching this particular model regarding operational options. Thank you for making this content, now I can disable the motion sensor which is driving me nuts with two of these installed in front of our home above the garage.
Exactly what I was looking for. I'm wanting to connect my motion sensor light to a actual switch. Reason I want to bypass the motion sensor is because it constantly turns on and off all day. So this is what I was looking for to connect it directly to a switch where I can turn it on and off as I need to. Thank you so much 👍 I liked and subscribed.
Saved me $50 thanks to your tutorial--much appreciated! My light wouldn't work since the sensor mechanism failed so I just bypassed it using the technique you showed and the light works just fine with the switch now. I'm going to put in a Sengled LED Smart WiFi bulb and then I'll be able to have it on an on/off schedule...better than before. Thanks again for taking the time to put this tutorial together.
Thank you DoctorFixMaster!! I just purchased replacement coach lamps for the rear patio on my home and did not want the motion or auto dim to activate. Not much of a choice at the big box store as the other choices were not as nice as the ones I purchased. Was hoping someone had bypass suggestions on You Tube. Entered what I was looking for and you were the first video to view. Your instructional video was not long and drug out and came right to the solution. Worked perfectly and I could not be more pleased. Thank you again and Thank you - You Tube.
Thanks so much. Been wanting to do this for about 2 years. Now i can just put in a light sensor. The reset this light has it the most annoying part. You have to reset the switch every day just to get your lights to stay on! Now i won't have to.
Put some smart bulbs in my front porch light. It was motion activated but thanks to your video now I've got it powered 24/7 and I can just schedule the bulbs to turn on and off when I want.
Had the same issue with the Allen + Roth lights we bought. The motion detection was fine by the garage but we couldn't get it to work correctly at the front door. Found this video and voila! Motion sense bypassed. Thanks for the video!
I am so glad I found this video. I bought the exactly same outdoor lights as the one on the video and I did not wanted the motion detection just the light. I thought it would be complicated to desactive it until I found this youtube video. Thank you very much DoctorFixMaster and thanks Google-TH-cam for allowing people to share their knowledge.
I'm a little slow! I thought this video was showing you how to bypass one light to work on the motion sensor of the other. I Think I figured out what I need to do though. Good video and thanks for replying to people and helping troubleshoot. I'll subscribe to that!
Thanks. Excellent overall, if a bit long, due to all the pre-discussion about neutrals, etc. Still, good info! As to why do this? If I have all fixtures I like, and dont want to buy new ones, but want to make them act like regular non-motion lights, then this is the perfect fix.
Jean Sigouin 7:33 PM (2 minutes ago) hi, I did the same thing to the other light. The first one worked well. When I tried the second light ,all the power and a lot more wires. Anyway, the second light stayed on all the time. does the red light on the fixture have anything to do with it.
If both of those lights are on the same switch, it means they are powered in parallel by that same switch. That means what power is delivered to the unit by the switch should be the same for both. When the switch is on, the black wire in both units should go hot (120V AC). That can be easily verified with a cheap tester. If one light stays on when the switch is off, then they are not wired in parallel from the same switch and you need to figure out how they are receiving power first. This bypass trick will work either way. The sensor inside is basically just another switch, and bypassing just removes that switch, meaning that whatever power you deliver to the light goes straight in and doesn't consider the state of the sensor.
quick question I am going to purchase 3 outdoor lights with just dawn to dusk sensors....all I would have to do is connect the incoming black wire to the black wire going into the back of the light, right? You tested the light before hand by putting black and white wire into an extension cord outlet, correct? Stupid question does it make a difference what outlet port you put the black and white wire into to test to see if it works. Thanks, appreciate you sharing your knowledge.
To test your fixture, you have to make sure that the main black going into the fixture is connected to the hot 120V AC line from your house, and the white goes to neutral. House hot is 'usually' black and the neutral is 'usually' white, but it's always best to check them with a tester probe available at any home improvement store. Dusk to dawn sensors should work the same way as what I've outlined in the video, except those will work with a photodetector instead of a motion sensor. They can be bypassed in the same way. I hope that's helpful.
I purchased 2 Honeywell LED motion sensor outdoor flood lights. I dont want these two flood light together. How can I de-link them so they wor independently.
de-linking them depends on a lot of things. Do they turn on based on a single sensor, or does each fixture have its own? If There's only one sensor, you can't unlink them. If they each have a photodetector, then you'd have to figure out the specifics of how the signaling from the sensors drives the fixtures and separate what is now common between them. It sounds do-able, but only if there is an independent sensor on each.
Will this turn it into a dusk till dawn light? Trying to figure out how to override the auto mode with out having to do it manually every night. Thanks in advance
All this change does is disable the motion detector. I'm not sure if a motion detector can be used to do a dusk till dawn light, because instead of detecting motion, you're detecting sunlight. A simple photodetector would do the trick, but that is a much more significant change than bypassing the motion sensor. A motion detector is an infared sensor. Maybe that thing has a mode that will detect sunlight, but I doubt it. A motion detector works in the dark, so it has to emit and receive. It's going to be a bigger deal to get it to receive only so it acts like a photodetector.
DoctorFixMaster I am assuming it does have a ohotodetector because you can manually over ride the auto mode by toggling the power to off for 2 seconds then turn it back on & it will stay on all night & will turn off at dawn but you have to manually do this every night after it’s dark
@@omarpulido8419 It's possible that a motion sensor might be configured as a dusk to dawn detector, but that would take some pretty major alterations that would have to be included in the embedded control hardware and software of the unit. Dusk to dawn just looks for light and signals accordingly, while motion sensors are looking for rapid changes in detected infared radiation. It isn't likely that the average person could hack the embedded control to reconfigure the motion detector as a photodetector. One option is to look at the owners manual to see if there is a photodetector dusk to dawn mode already built in. A configuration switch is all it would take, but that would just be enabling a mode that was already there. The only other option would be to swap out the motion detector module (just turns the light on or off) with a dawn to dusk photodetector module. Going that route is do-able, but the mounting of a generic photodetector might be problematic, and you'd have to buy a photodetector module...and you'd end up with a wasted motion sensor module.
Great vid. Any tips making my motion active light work on a dimmer? I read it can be done without disabling the motion sensor but haven't been able to find wiring instructions. Thanks
I'm thinking you would wire it up the same. At least in my case, the sensor just delivers power to the light or not. The dimmer function is back at the switch, and if I understand those right, it just inserts a variable resistor in the path to ground. That would make the dimming function independent of the sensor function.
Yes, you will cap the red line. It will connect to nothing now. You do NOT cap the black one that the red one was connected to. That black one is the one that goes to the light. Connect that one up to the hot line that comes from the light switch. This assumes your color scheme is the same as mine. Use a circuit tester to make sure if you have any doubts.
No, not if you bypass it like I've shown in the video...assuming there is a dusk to dawn light sensor along with the motion detection sensor. That would also depend on whether or not the dusk to dawn sensor was on its own and you had access to the connector wires. As long as you have access to the connector wires, you can configure it to do whatever you want by including any sensor in series with the light circuit or bypassing it.
Anyone know how to adjust the motion sensitivity on this particular model (#39479). I do not have the original instructions (thrown away by the electrician who installed the lights). Thanks in advance.
There are two adjustments on these lights. A sensitivity adjustment as well as a delay (how long it stays on when it trips). They are very easy to access on the top. You just unscrew the pointy knob at the very top and take the cap off underneath it to reveal the adjustment knobs. Good luck! :)
With two motion sensor lights on the same switch, you do exactly the same thing to both lights. The bypass trick is entirely inside the light, which is completely independent of the power to the lights, controlled by the same switch in your case.
That is certainly do-able, but would require an additional switch. One switch that would turn the fixture on and off, and the other switch which would serve as a mode control....motion detection vs standard light. On the fixture in my video that would mean routing power to the mode control switch instead of straight in to the heavy black line, and using the switch output to choose between the heavy black line that goes to the sensor or the thin black line that goes directly to the light. That would do what you're asking. You'd need to run a Romex cable 3 conductor line to the new switch (double pole single throw - chooses between two different paths). Let me know if that's enough info. If not say so and I'll put another video up. It's a great idea, but routing another cable could be problematic in an already finished home.
There might be one other option. You could opt for an always on fixture and use your existing switch to be the mode control, but that would require that the line from the switch to the fixture was a 3 conductor line. If your line is red, white, and black, you're good to go for that already. If its just white and black, running another line is unavoidable. Oh, and you'd still need a new double pole, single throw switch in the switch housing to accomplish that. (Those are usually accessible).
DoctorFixMaster well I have power to a three way switch now and an additional line not in use but at the mounting box the 14/3 power black bypassed at the switch but I only have the black and white wire like your video from light fixture I have of course the red & netural how do I make it work
Verbally its hard to do this. Can you draw me a picture of what you have, being careful to label which lines are 14/3 and which are 14/2? It sounds like you have the conductors you need already in there. Send the picture to doctorfixmaster@gmail.com and I'll annotate it and give you a solution. Doing this on a 3 way switch complicates things, but I think its still do-able.
The principles are all the same. Find the control module, cut it loose and bypass it. You can still wire it up to the switch and just leave the switch on if you want it on all the time.
Bypassing the motion sensor is step one if that is your goal. Step 2 in accomplishing your goal is a wired switch leg to the switch of your choice inside the house, or a wireless transmitter and receiver switch.
I make my living designing analog integrated circuits, not stringing wires in new construction. I'm going to have to ask you to look past the terminology I use and focus on the basic principles, which are rock solid.
Mike Biddle but why you want to remove it. They there for purpose. If you want to keep the light constant at night just press the switch twice and the light should stay on. th-cam.com/video/Bc-CjY5OPps/w-d-xo.html
@@DerekHundik Not all lights have that feature. Plus, some lights have this feature but also include a dusk to dawn sensor, so the light will turn off automatically during the day and you'd have to hit the light switch twice every night.
I'm not aware of such a feature, but it has been several years since I installed mine. It would be easy to test that theory, and if you still have the install instructions, they would call out the procedure to do that if it was available. As I recall though, there was no such feature, which is why I posted this bypass video. The bypass isn't too bad, but it is committal. It would be a pain to go back and forth between bypassed and not bypassed, so you have to choose which and go with it.
Thank you so much for sharing this video! I am a female that recently moved into my first home. My parents were divorced - my father always had apartments growing up and my mother always 'called someone,' so there were a lot of housekeeping things I never learned from my parents and couldn't ask. When I realized last night that our porchlight has a motion sensor that does not turn off (and I wanted to switch to a smart bulb for halloween), I was tempted to buy a new light... But instead I did some digging and found this video. Our light is set up almost exactly like this, so using this video I was able to rewire the light today and can now use my smart bulb.
I'm so grateful for people like you who are able to be the 'dad's' of the internet, to help myself and my partner get through living in our first home. :)
Outstanding video information . I had 3 outdoor lamps that a lightening strike killed the sensors on. I was getting power to the socket but the light didn’t work. I routed the red out of the configuration and now I have all 3 working as switched on off. I plan on putting a timer inside the house You saved me a few hundred dollars. Thanks
Happy to help. Thanks for watching!
Thank you so much for this. Just did this with 3 lights on the back of our house, and now they work perfectly.
I am so glad I found this instructional video! I have a very nice porch light, but the motion sensor quit working rendering the light useless. It is dangerous for us and the delivery drivers not having a well lit porch at night. I found this video, and removed my light fixture, rewired it, and now it works just perfect with the switch. I think I will get a smart bulb for the light now! Thanks again!
Happy to help!
Great video thank you, helped me a lot!!!
My wife just bought the same light fixtures and I approved without researching this particular model regarding operational options. Thank you for making this content, now I can disable the motion sensor which is driving me nuts with two of these installed in front of our home above the garage.
Exactly what I was looking for. I'm wanting to connect my motion sensor light to a actual switch. Reason I want to bypass the motion sensor is because it constantly turns on and off all day. So this is what I was looking for to connect it directly to a switch where I can turn it on and off as I need to. Thank you so much 👍 I liked and subscribed.
Saved me $50 thanks to your tutorial--much appreciated! My light wouldn't work since the sensor mechanism failed so I just bypassed it using the technique you showed and the light works just fine with the switch now. I'm going to put in a Sengled LED Smart WiFi bulb and then I'll be able to have it on an on/off schedule...better than before. Thanks again for taking the time to put this tutorial together.
What a great idea!
Thank you it was great and easy , didn’t need motion keep flickering on and off. Saved me money
Thank you very much!!! I bypassed the motion sensor using your tutorial and now using Ring smart light bulb.
Thank you DoctorFixMaster!!
I just purchased replacement coach lamps for the rear patio on my home and did not want the motion or auto dim to activate. Not much of a choice at the big box store as the other choices were not as nice as the ones I purchased. Was hoping someone had bypass suggestions on You Tube. Entered what I was looking for and you were the first video to view. Your instructional video was not long and drug out and came right to the solution. Worked perfectly and I could not be more pleased. Thank you again and Thank you - You Tube.
Thanks so much. Been wanting to do this for about 2 years. Now i can just put in a light sensor. The reset this light has it the most annoying part. You have to reset the switch every day just to get your lights to stay on! Now i won't have to.
Put some smart bulbs in my front porch light. It was motion activated but thanks to your video now I've got it powered 24/7 and I can just schedule the bulbs to turn on and off when I want.
Thats exactly my situation. Seems like you can just blackout the sensor. Ima try that 1st
Had the same issue with the Allen + Roth lights we bought. The motion detection was fine by the garage but we couldn't get it to work correctly at the front door. Found this video and voila! Motion sense bypassed. Thanks for the video!
Thanks so much! It worked perfectly! Saved me some money because I used 2 existing lights.
That worked sir. Thank you!!!
I am so glad I found this video. I bought the exactly same outdoor lights as the one on the video and I did not wanted the motion detection just the light. I thought it would be complicated to desactive it until I found this youtube video. Thank you very much DoctorFixMaster and thanks Google-TH-cam for allowing people to share their knowledge.
Very well explained. It looks easy...wish I had watched earlier !
Nail biting maybe not - but very helpful! Thank you!!
🤣Happy to help.
Thank you so much this was driving me nuts
Thank you very much, my problem disappears I save lots of money and my neighbors stop telling my garage light is flicking crazy.
Hello, Thankyou young man you made my day. Johnny
Thanks man, I bought 3 of those, I hate the sensor. Bypassed it. Works great
I'm a little slow! I thought this video was showing you how to bypass one light to work on the motion sensor of the other. I Think I figured out what I need to do though. Good video and thanks for replying to people and helping troubleshoot. I'll subscribe to that!
Thanks. Excellent overall, if a bit long, due to all the pre-discussion about neutrals, etc. Still, good info! As to why do this? If I have all fixtures I like, and dont want to buy new ones, but want to make them act like regular non-motion lights, then this is the perfect fix.
Very useful! Thank you
Awesome job thank you so much
Hey, Thank you so much for this video. Worked like a charm!
Thanks! We have the exact same fixtures.
Perfect. Just what I was looking for. Thanks
This video helped so much. Thank you
Just what I was lookin for - thanks.
Thank u it worked for me
Best video I've seen yet on wiring motion lights! Thank you for the video!
Jean Sigouin
7:33 PM (2 minutes ago)
hi, I did the same thing to the other light. The first one worked well. When I tried the second light ,all the power and a lot more wires. Anyway, the second light stayed on all the time. does the red light on the fixture have anything to do with it.
If both of those lights are on the same switch, it means they are powered in parallel by that same switch. That means what power is delivered to the unit by the switch should be the same for both. When the switch is on, the black wire in both units should go hot (120V AC). That can be easily verified with a cheap tester. If one light stays on when the switch is off, then they are not wired in parallel from the same switch and you need to figure out how they are receiving power first. This bypass trick will work either way. The sensor inside is basically just another switch, and bypassing just removes that switch, meaning that whatever power you deliver to the light goes straight in and doesn't consider the state of the sensor.
Hell Yeah!!,,,,,, worked like a charm!...... TY
quick question I am going to purchase 3 outdoor lights with just dawn to dusk sensors....all I would have to do is connect the incoming black wire to the black wire going into the back of the light, right? You tested the light before hand by putting black and white wire into an extension cord outlet, correct? Stupid question does it make a difference what outlet port you put the black and white wire into to test to see if it works. Thanks, appreciate you sharing your knowledge.
To test your fixture, you have to make sure that the main black going into the fixture is connected to the hot 120V AC line from your house, and the white goes to neutral. House hot is 'usually' black and the neutral is 'usually' white, but it's always best to check them with a tester probe available at any home improvement store.
Dusk to dawn sensors should work the same way as what I've outlined in the video, except those will work with a photodetector instead of a motion sensor. They can be bypassed in the same way. I hope that's helpful.
Awesome. Easy fix. Worked perfectly.
excellent video. thank you very much for this information.
Thanks!!! just what I was looking for... gonna try it tonight!
Worked great thanks for the info!
Thanks for the video...saved my bacon...and my marriage! :)
thanks! worked like a charm!
I purchased 2 Honeywell LED motion sensor outdoor flood lights. I dont want these two flood light together. How can I de-link them so they wor independently.
de-linking them depends on a lot of things. Do they turn on based on a single sensor, or does each fixture have its own? If There's only one sensor, you can't unlink them. If they each have a photodetector, then you'd have to figure out the specifics of how the signaling from the sensors drives the fixtures and separate what is now common between them. It sounds do-able, but only if there is an independent sensor on each.
Very useful I got the same lights I tryed putting them dusk to dawn mode but somehow won't work like that only in sensor mode.
Will this turn it into a dusk till dawn light? Trying to figure out how to override the auto mode with out having to do it manually every night. Thanks in advance
All this change does is disable the motion detector. I'm not sure if a motion detector can be used to do a dusk till dawn light, because instead of detecting motion, you're detecting sunlight. A simple photodetector would do the trick, but that is a much more significant change than bypassing the motion sensor. A motion detector is an infared sensor. Maybe that thing has a mode that will detect sunlight, but I doubt it. A motion detector works in the dark, so it has to emit and receive. It's going to be a bigger deal to get it to receive only so it acts like a photodetector.
DoctorFixMaster I am assuming it does have a ohotodetector because you can manually over ride the auto mode by toggling the power to off for 2 seconds then turn it back on & it will stay on all night & will turn off at dawn but you have to manually do this every night after it’s dark
@@omarpulido8419 It's possible that a motion sensor might be configured as a dusk to dawn detector, but that would take some pretty major alterations that would have to be included in the embedded control hardware and software of the unit. Dusk to dawn just looks for light and signals accordingly, while motion sensors are looking for rapid changes in detected infared radiation. It isn't likely that the average person could hack the embedded control to reconfigure the motion detector as a photodetector. One option is to look at the owners manual to see if there is a photodetector dusk to dawn mode already built in. A configuration switch is all it would take, but that would just be enabling a mode that was already there. The only other option would be to swap out the motion detector module (just turns the light on or off) with a dawn to dusk photodetector module. Going that route is do-able, but the mounting of a generic photodetector might be problematic, and you'd have to buy a photodetector module...and you'd end up with a wasted motion sensor module.
DoctorFixMaster looks like I’m going to have to return this light then. Thank you for all the info! Great video by the way
Great vid. Any tips making my motion active light work on a dimmer? I read it can be done without disabling the motion sensor but haven't been able to find wiring instructions. Thanks
I'm thinking you would wire it up the same. At least in my case, the sensor just delivers power to the light or not. The dimmer function is back at the switch, and if I understand those right, it just inserts a variable resistor in the path to ground. That would make the dimming function independent of the sensor function.
Okay so cap the red line. Do I cap the black line that the red line was connected with? Just want to make sure.
Yes, you will cap the red line. It will connect to nothing now. You do NOT cap the black one that the red one was connected to. That black one is the one that goes to the light. Connect that one up to the hot line that comes from the light switch. This assumes your color scheme is the same as mine. Use a circuit tester to make sure if you have any doubts.
Thank you...
Thanks great info.
Does the dusk to dawn feature still work?
No, not if you bypass it like I've shown in the video...assuming there is a dusk to dawn light sensor along with the motion detection sensor. That would also depend on whether or not the dusk to dawn sensor was on its own and you had access to the connector wires. As long as you have access to the connector wires, you can configure it to do whatever you want by including any sensor in series with the light circuit or bypassing it.
Anyone know how to adjust the motion sensitivity on this particular model (#39479). I do not have the original instructions (thrown away by the electrician who installed the lights). Thanks in advance.
There are two adjustments on these lights. A sensitivity adjustment as well as a delay (how long it stays on when it trips). They are very easy to access on the top. You just unscrew the pointy knob at the very top and take the cap off underneath it to reveal the adjustment knobs. Good luck! :)
@@DoctorFixMaster thanks. I finally found a manual online but I hadn't had a chance to go back on YT until now. I appreciate the reply.
not sure how to do this with 2 motion lights connected to one switch. can you help
With two motion sensor lights on the same switch, you do exactly the same thing to both lights. The bypass trick is entirely inside the light, which is completely independent of the power to the lights, controlled by the same switch in your case.
What I am looking for is a way to both have the motion light always working & yet when I want is flip the switch and turn it on or back as I need
That is certainly do-able, but would require an additional switch. One switch that would turn the fixture on and off, and the other switch which would serve as a mode control....motion detection vs standard light. On the fixture in my video that would mean routing power to the mode control switch instead of straight in to the heavy black line, and using the switch output to choose between the heavy black line that goes to the sensor or the thin black line that goes directly to the light. That would do what you're asking. You'd need to run a Romex cable 3 conductor line to the new switch (double pole single throw - chooses between two different paths). Let me know if that's enough info. If not say so and I'll put another video up. It's a great idea, but routing another cable could be problematic in an already finished home.
There might be one other option. You could opt for an always on fixture and use your existing switch to be the mode control, but that would require that the line from the switch to the fixture was a 3 conductor line. If your line is red, white, and black, you're good to go for that already. If its just white and black, running another line is unavoidable. Oh, and you'd still need a new double pole, single throw switch in the switch housing to accomplish that. (Those are usually accessible).
DoctorFixMaster well I have power to a three way switch now and an additional line not in use but at the mounting box the 14/3 power black bypassed at the switch but I only have the black and white wire like your video from light fixture I have of course the red & netural how do I make it work
And again the light motion detector always on & my option to turn on as I want
Verbally its hard to do this. Can you draw me a picture of what you have, being careful to label which lines are 14/3 and which are 14/2? It sounds like you have the conductors you need already in there. Send the picture to doctorfixmaster@gmail.com and I'll annotate it and give you a solution. Doing this on a 3 way switch complicates things, but I think its still do-able.
Dont beat me up for asking but Couldnt you just blackout the motion sensor with a sharpie or blacktape
:D Yep. It wouldn't be a bad idea for the manufacturer to offer opaque covers for the sensors. You could use bandaids and bubble gum too.
How to bypass the Hampton Bay solar spotlight sensor and make it turn on all the time?
The principles are all the same. Find the control module, cut it loose and bypass it. You can still wire it up to the switch and just leave the switch on if you want it on all the time.
@7:22 "so if I plug this thing back in..." Doh!
That was the sound of me kicking the tripod, not the sound of me being electrocuted. :)
I was about to say the same thing
This light is bullshit. I just want to be able to turn the damn thing on from inside the fucking house.
Bypassing the motion sensor is step one if that is your goal. Step 2 in accomplishing your goal is a wired switch leg to the switch of your choice inside the house, or a wireless transmitter and receiver switch.
Photocell man! Guy if you're teaching people learn the REAL TERMS NEUTRAL, LOAD/LIVE , PHOTOCELL
I make my living designing analog integrated circuits, not stringing wires in new construction. I'm going to have to ask you to look past the terminology I use and focus on the basic principles, which are rock solid.
Absolutely the worst explanation of anything ever.....my God....
The value of the explanation is directly proportional to your ability to comprehend it.
why you got the light with the sensor at the first place. Get normal one so you don't have to bypass anything.
It's so they all match. Some I want the motion sensor function on. Some I do not.
DoctorFixMaster i see.
@@MikeBiddle Same principle applies, but you'll have to remove the fixtures to work on them.
Mike Biddle but why you want to remove it. They there for purpose. If you want to keep the light constant at night just press the switch twice and the light should stay on. th-cam.com/video/Bc-CjY5OPps/w-d-xo.html
@@DerekHundik Not all lights have that feature. Plus, some lights have this feature but also include a dusk to dawn sensor, so the light will turn off automatically during the day and you'd have to hit the light switch twice every night.
If you flick the interior switch up and down a few times is that supposed to override the motion detector?
I'm not aware of such a feature, but it has been several years since I installed mine. It would be easy to test that theory, and if you still have the install instructions, they would call out the procedure to do that if it was available. As I recall though, there was no such feature, which is why I posted this bypass video. The bypass isn't too bad, but it is committal. It would be a pain to go back and forth between bypassed and not bypassed, so you have to choose which and go with it.