Front door with or without side light

Not everyone feels like hallway/light when they want to let their soul dangle at night

And exactly for that reason, these things also have a switch Off - Automatic - On ;)

A gain for trapped room niches. For traffic areas, there could be a big minus point if you want to influence the lighting effect yourself.

Or a double big plus point if you - let's say - want to go to the basement with two crates of drinks (water on the left, pilsner on the right). Or go from the basement to the upper floor with a full laundry basket in both hands. A thousand and more situations are conceivable where your hands are full and you actually still need to operate a light switch ... ;)

Or a double big plus point if you - let's say - want to go to the basement with two crates of drinks (water on the left, pilsner on the right). Or if you carry a full laundry basket with both hands upstairs from the basement. A thousand and more situations are imaginable where you have both hands full and actually still need to operate a light switch ... ;)

This is not about the basement, and that’s not what I mean when talking about self-determination over the light. In the basement, you hardly have any natural light, so those things are very comfortable. But here it’s about the entrance area and its pleasant natural lighting, which is why I don’t consider your suggestion exactly debatable. There may be others who like that the light always turns on there at perceived twilight (in a hallway sometimes a 24/7 situation), but for many it is not pleasant.
At work, we have these motion detectors in the central hallways, and they do a good job there… but I don't want that switching on/off hassle. I also perceive it negatively from my office? When it turns on... and when I go to the copier, I first go into a dark corner. It’s nicer when you then have a wall light or floor lamp. But it’s always artificial light. The connoisseur knows the difference ;)

But here it is about the entrance area and its pleasant natural lighting, so I don't exactly consider your suggestion debatable.

But I had explicitly spoken out for natural light in the hallway and even posted a picture of our front door. Did you not look at my picture? The tip about the motion detector from me was only because the original poster probably cannot get enough light into the hallway through a light opening in or next to the front door.

This is not about basements, and that's not what I mean when talking about self-determination of light. In basements, you hardly get natural light; there these devices are very comfortable.

Okay, the basement was perhaps a somewhat unfortunate example. But we have these devices in the basement, the hallway on the ground floor, and the hallway on the upper floor. So I can go from top to bottom (and of course vice versa) even during the darker hours of the day without having to operate a light switch. Both hands are free for whatever.

It is nicer when you have a wall light or floor lamp. But it is always artificial light.

Well, in our case, the motion detectors do not switch on 250-watt halogen cold light spotlights, but tracks whose individual lighting fixtures are more or less exactly aimed at the pictures in the hallway and the stairwell and thus put the art "in the right light" ... ;)

Didn't you look at my picture?

Unfortunately, without Wi-Fi, the picture doesn't load even after 10 minutes :confused:

Unfortunately, without WLAN the image still doesn't load even after 10 minutes :confused:

Well, then I'll significantly turn down the quality ... :)

Well, then I'll significantly lower the quality ... :)

As long as you don't mess with my standards :p