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Yeah I have a very similar idea going on, all the hallway lights are on motion sensors and I use Adaptive Lighting to turn them on Night Mode when everyone goes to bed.
I have 3 spots in the hallway outside the kids rooms and they used to wake the youngest up when he was smaller so I have 2 of those not work at night so just the furthest from his room comes on low brightness, enough to see by but not enough to wake him.
I love my Hallway motion sensors. We live in a 4 storey town house with the kitchen (and washing machine) on the ground floor and it used to be a right ballache carrying washing from the ground floor to my bedroom, turning lights on and off all the way up with hands full. Nowadays it's as simple as walking