I have an outside motion sensor on my Elan system. It detects motion, and if after dark, it turns on lights on that side of the house.

I have a lot of experience with Elan but never did much with timers.

I want to add a timer so the light turns off after 10 mins but can't figure out how to do it in the event mapper. I thought I could just add a 10 min tiimer called "motion timer" and put that line item in the command (3rd part) area of the event mapper. And then an “off” command to those lights after the timer runs out. When I do this the light doesn't even come on at all. If I eliminate the timer and light “off” command line items in the 3rd area of the event mapper, the light does come on when motion is detected.

Anyone have any timer experience with Elan's event mapper commands?

Try creating a run once system timer for 10 minutes.

Event Motion

Condition Timer expired

Command switch off

That is not an option in the Condition field. There is no "Timer expired" option

For timers in the Condition field, there is only Timer is True or False.

What you want to do is create the timer, then in your event map for the motion sensing, turn on the light, then start/restart the timer for 10 minutes. Then create a separate event map for when that timer expires, turn off the lights.

Yep, That works. Thanks for the suggestion and help.

My original hang up was thinking that I could achieve the entire thing with one event map.