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Motion Sensor Booking

In this article, you can find the settings and options available to enable and configure the Motion Sensor Booking on the Humly Control Panel

When you turn on Motion Sensor Booking, your spaces will be automatically reserved the moment someone walks in making it super easy to grab a focus room, phone booth, or huddle space whenever you need it.

🛠 How to Enable Motion Sensor Booking

  1. Navigate to the resource settings you want to configure.

  2. Scroll to the “Sensors” section, ensure a motion sensor is selected under the Presence field.

  3. Scroll to the “Motion sensor booking” section. Check “Enable motion sensor booking”.

  4. Choose a booking mode:

    • 🔄 Sensor based + calendar & on-screen booking
      Allows both automatic sensor-triggered bookings and standard calendar or on-screen bookings.
      With this option, the booking will exist on the device and on the backend booking system

    • ☎️ Phone Booth mode
      Only allows automatic sensor-triggered bookings. All calendar-based or manual bookings are disabled.

  5. Save the settings.

  • Phone booth mode requires a standalone resource; connected booking system resources are not supported.
    This means the room or desk cannot be connected to Office365, Exchange, Google, or any external calendar when using phone booth mode.

  • Phone booth mode is supported only on Humly Booking Devices - HBDs

🤖 How Motion Sensor Booking Works

  1. Presence Detected

    • If the room is free and motion is detected, the system automatically creates a booking.

    • Default duration: 15 minutes (Not configurable), or until the next scheduled meeting.

    • Subject: Booked (with the sensor icon on the room display).

  2. No Presence

    • When motion is no longer detected within two minutes, the system ends the booking early to free the room.

  3. Manual End Option

    • If enabled in settings, users can manually end the booking early by pressing “End meeting” on the room display.

  4. Repeat Behavior

    • If presence is detected again after a booking ends and the room is free, a new automatic booking is created.

Motion Sensor Booking is not supported with the authentication enabled on creating, deleting and editing meetings