How to Install the Maestro Motion Sensor Light Switch
If you're like most people you hate fumbling for the lights when you're hands are full, right? Let the Maestro light switch do the work for you and turn your lights on & off automatically. The cool part about the Maestro is that it's easy to install and is a great upgrade for laundry rooms or other places in your house where you forget to turn OFF lights. So, not only will it turn your lights on but it will save you money by turning them off when you forget.
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0:00 How to Install a Motion Sensor Light Switch
0:50 Turn off the electricity and test the switch for electricity
2:00 Take a picture and examine the electrical wiring
3:53 How to remove the wires or cut and strip them
5:26 How to pigtail black (hot) wires with a wire nut
6:55 The occupancy switch and its different modes
7:45 How to connect the black wires
9:05 How to add the green and bare wires and cap the blue wire
9:52 Shove the wires into the box and attach the switch to the wall
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Thanks Jake, I really appreciate your support
Thanks Jeff. The instructions that came with the switch mention nothing about a red wire in the box so I'm glad I found your video just to be sure I connected things correctly.
@HomeRepairTutor
9 жыл бұрын
My pleasure to help out Robert V. - sometimes the directions are a little vague :D
Interesting video. I wish that you demonstrated its functionality at the end. I have questions on room size, height of sensor location, proximity of a door, traffic in the area, LED or incandescent load, etc. Will look deeper into this brand. Thank you.
This video was very helpful, since I did not use the red wire before, just the two black, like single switch, but.... could not set the timer (no blinking lights) and the light would not shut off. So I was excieted to try the two blacks together and the red. The timer setting on the motion switch worked for the first time, but... still the light would not shut off. So I added two and two, and moved the black wire back to the location of the red wire, and viola!! Success!... so result is hit black wire alone, slave black wire and red wire to other terminal. As usual, green to ground. Feel like I got my brain back... lol.
line and load.. line from the power and load to the light... thank u for your video
I actually had the opposite problem, kid that won't turn the light off after leaving the laundry room 🤦♂️ thanks for the detailed video!
Thanks, Shipmate. this was very helpful and wife won' t trip now fumbling for lights with laundry basket in her arms.
I only have a black and white wire coming out of box. Help!!
I'm trying to replace my old worn out motion sensing switch. In my case though there is a separate wall switch that controls the same 1 overhead light bulb. Otherwise awesome video!!!
You need to twist your wires together before you put the wire nut on
Hey Kenny, you know what, you're totally right. That would be a better way to do it and I chalk this up to a huge BRAIN FART. Thanks for pointing this out.
Jeff my box it looks like what you are showing in the video. But I don't see the ground wire. Only the white ones neutrals. I connected with out the ground wire. But it doesn't work if I don't hve a ground. Where to connect the ground from the sensor ?
Worked for me , thumbs up ! Thanks man
I only have a black and a red wire. What would you guess the red wire is ?
I have a light and a motions sensor in different locations. The light and its switch is wired with Black, White, and Ground. I want the motion sensor (with Black, White, Red, and Ground) to turn the light ON/OFF when the switch is powered ON. What is the correct way to wire the motion sensor.
Hi I want to install this sensor switch but I have only red n black wire how can I connectedness
Thanks for the detailed video! I was looking for a video of a box with multiple black cables, a red, and a white like on my box. I don't have a ground cable though. Old building with metal boxes. Can I ground it against the metal box? Thank you again.
@tutoringkewallal3533
6 жыл бұрын
Martin Portillo Blanco I have the same set up....one red one black one white. No ground/green/copper but metal box. Couldn't find the screw/where to affix the ground wires to the box. ....
@michaelslaughter6557
2 жыл бұрын
@@tutoringkewallal3533 You can buy a little metal clamp to attach ground wire to your box.
Do you have a video demonstrating wiring the motion sensor switch in a circuit with a three way ?
@seankendle8471
4 жыл бұрын
@Slade Profka would you care to specifically say which code violations those are??
these days these wall switches arrive without neutral connection or in some cases they can be interchanged with the earth. Check out sensor switch in the US
I'm pretty sure that blue wire is sometimes live if it's for the 3-way function. It should be cut off and capped. The way you did it leaves bare live wire exposed in the box (see at 9:34). A wiring diagram would be helpful in this video just to see what wire goes where.
@ronaldbranco5467
3 жыл бұрын
How much 3way swicth sensor
Muy bien explicado con todos los detalles necesarios gracias
Thank you!! Great video
thank you
@HomeRepairTutor
10 жыл бұрын
Hope it helps hasa ha
Thank you for this
Hello. How can I tell if my ground wire is truly grounded?? My motion switch does operate. "it does have power and light goes on, just doesn't go off or on with motion" thx
@SivRami
7 жыл бұрын
kenny play have you found a solution? I'm having the same problem
@liamcarters8987
5 жыл бұрын
kenny play you do it with magic... jk it has instructions on how to program that
@thecookiemonster335
3 жыл бұрын
Mine is also having this issue. Programming it isn’t solving anything. Any resolution to this?
Thank you
@HomeRepairTutor
5 жыл бұрын
Happy to help
@Tony2Ton
5 жыл бұрын
@@HomeRepairTutor i do a little cooking on my channel. come check it out.
What up with the 12/3 are you sending power to some other device?
How do you reset a lutron ms-ops2. the sensor will not turn off
if I have a 3 way switch, do I need TWO maestro switches? or would 1 control the light to auto turn off still?
thank you!
@HomeRepairTutor
10 жыл бұрын
Hope it helped Chris Holzapfel
does this sensor have a blinking light?
Which black wire of the sensor switch is the line? Which one is the load? The switch has a black/line, red/load, yellow/traveler and a green/ground. (Hubbell WS2000)
thank you, good video
i only have 3 wires coming out the wall.black,white and ground.how do i use them to install my switch?
@HomeRepairTutor
8 жыл бұрын
Depends on the manufacturers directions. Shut off the power first. Typically black is hot and goes to brass screw, white is typically neutral and goes to silver screw, and bare copper is ground and goes to green screw. But again, follow the switch directions.
@uzielditter
7 жыл бұрын
meatdogg101 if you have 3 wires black white and ground. your power is coming from the ligth so to make sure what im telling just turn the power off and put wire nuts or tape turn the power on test wich one is the power the oter is gonna be the switch light. normaly white os neutral ok
@meatdogg101
7 жыл бұрын
thanks for the reply .I tied the red and black together to my black wire which is the hot
@henrydoelger6503
5 жыл бұрын
meatdogg10
One black should be from the circuit breaker (separate the 2 blacks, turn power on and see which one is hot), the other black goes to another light switch feeding a different light fixture they just used the switch box as a junction box. The red wire goes to the light you are trying to control with the switch. It is common to use a red wire as a switch leg.
Good video I subscribed and favorited and likes
What hapen if no ground wire in the box?
@d.t.3495
2 жыл бұрын
I’m a little late, but you have to re-run a wire with a ground
What was the purpose of splicing the two wires together with another wire...then nut that wire to the switch...why not just nut the switch wire to the other two? would seem neater and less work to me
@andrewkiedyk4142
3 жыл бұрын
That's right, unnecessary additional piece of wire and additional connector. What for ?
I am number 666. Yeah buddy! It’s merely a number
How much?
Hi Jeff, I have two switches that operate one light bulb. Do I need two sensors or just replace on of the switches?
@HomeRepairTutor
10 жыл бұрын
Sounds like you have a three-way switch chrlwht4 - I think this switch works for three-ways. But make sure to check the box before you buy it.
Hi, my original don't have a ground, what should I do?
@TheXxunidentifiedxx
7 жыл бұрын
Tony Fok did you figure it out?
10/19/2021 If you show how to remove the wall-plate screws, (everybody knows that), why didn't you show how to strip the rubber off the wire? Some of us don't know how.
How much sensor swicth
more complicated than I thought ...
Tmi
My switch my motion switch I’m talking about has one load and ground in my box or my switches I have two blacks to neutral wire noted together and ground three ground actually wire noted together for my line side I put the hot wire coming in I connected it to my line side my load side I put for my traveler to my light why is it not Working do I have a bad switch motion switch I mean
We don't even know if that works.
The bear wire is the ground and the green wire is the neutral wire because that type of switch need a neutral wire but you put all together I will work like that but is not the right way to do it.
@wlipman
3 жыл бұрын
Wrong. Get an electrician to install this.
Confusing
@HomeRepairTutor
9 жыл бұрын
Sorry for the confusion grantmaz123. It's actually not hard and if you have specific questions about your electrical box the technical service line at Lutron is awesome at helping out. I highly recommend buying Lutron products because of their great customer service and products.
@offsetsammy
9 жыл бұрын
You might be confused, but it is not confusing.
Terrible. Why would you give an example with that 3rd wire.
How many times do you walk into the laundry room and you can't turn the lights on because your hands are full of clothes? Ah....first world problems.
These switches are a waste of time. Just leave your regular switch, pop in an LED bulb and leave it on all the time. It will cost you 5 cents per month in electricity.