BulbCam light dont turn off on schedule

[briankrause1]

I have the new bulb cam and 2 accessory bulbs connected to it. Everything is working good except the lights wont turn off on my set schedule. Does anyone have ideas what I could be doing wrong?

[Crease]

Welcome to the Forum, @briankrause1!

How/where are you setting the schedule? It’s possible to do it with Automations, but you probably want to do it directly within Bulb Cam’s Settings, perhaps using the Ambient Light settings, as discussed here:

Sunrise-Sunset Schedule not working for light

I really like the bulb cam, but I’m having an issue with the light automatically turning on at sunset and off at sunrise. I had to manually turn it on and off since installation. Under blub settings, I have the ACTIVATE WHEN: set to motion, Smart detections, Person. Lights off Timer is 1 min Schedule is Sunset - Sunrise (this is the setting that’s supposed to make it turn on and off on the schedule, right?) So, what am I doing wrong?

If you could share some more detail about what you’ve done in the app (screenshots can be helpful) and what, specifically, you’re trying to accomplish, then that can help others in assisting you.

[briankrause1]

Under Ambient Light
ON
Brightness level is 30
schedule - 930pm 6am
preset is always ON

Under ACTIVE WHEN
MOTION
ON
ALL MOTION
TIMER 15S
schedule 930pm 6am

can you please explain what those settings are doing

[Crease]

As long as you aren’t overriding the light settings by tapping the light control (the Bulb Cam icon overlay on the Live Stream screen), then I believe your current settings should be doing this:

• Ambient Light: turn on the lights at 9:30 p.m. at 30% brightness and leave them on at that level until 6:00 a.m., when they should turn off.
• Motion: when any motion is detected between 9:30 p.m. and 6:00 a.m., turn on the lights at [some unknown level] for 15 seconds, and then return the lights to the previous setting (30% brightness set by Ambient Light in your case, since you specified the same schedule for both settings).

What I don’t know is what lighting change (if any) you would expect to see with these settings if motion-activated lighting is triggered, because I don’t know how you have the BRIGHTNESS LEVEL slider set on the main “Bulb Settings” screen. If It’s set to 30, then there should be no change from the Ambient Light setting. If it’s set to something higher, then you would expect the lights to brighten to that setting for 15 seconds whenever the camera detects motion between 9:30 p.m. and 6:00 a.m., and you’d navigate back into Detection Settings from the main Settings screen in order to tune that detection using the Detection Zone and/or CAMERA SENSITIVITY slider.