Alert when person leaves work zone and is 10 minutes from home

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I am wanting to set up some sort of alert (lights flash) when my wife leaves work and is 10 minutes from home. This way I can put her dinner in the oven just before she gets home. We work shift and get home at different times.

I already have presence detection setup via life360 so I can tell where we are at all times and zones for work and home. I was thinking of setting up a new zone around home that is large enough that it takes 15 minutes to drive to the edge of it.

So I need help setting up an alert that goes off only after she has left work location and enters the 10 minute drive location.

Any ideas?

Maybe some how with a template. I am just not sure how to program that…

automation:
  trigger:
    # enters 15 minutes drive away zone
    platform: zone
    entity_id: device_tracker.clairelife360
    zone: zone.home15mindrive
    event: enter
  condition:
    # has been in work zone the in last hour.
    condition: template
    value_template: '{{ states.device_tracker.clairelife360.##### left work in last hour ########### }}'

Just to Just to clarify My problem isn’t that I need to work out when she is 15 minutes away, it is that I only want it to trigger when she has left work in the last hour. So if she pops to the shops I dont get notifications etc

2

Use the Google maps travel time component. It looks easy to set up and it’s in my to do list.

Check it out here : https://home-assistant.io/components/sensor.google_travel_time/

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looks good and I will look into that in the future but My problem isn’t that I need to work out when she is 15 minutes away, it is that I only want it to trigger when she has left work in the last hour. So if she pops to the shops I dont get notifications etc

4

Use the Proximity Component

You will be limited to distance instead of time, but that would depend on traffic issues on the route.

Example from my configuration (trimmed down):

proximity:
  home:
    zone: home
    devices:
      - device_tracker.phone
    tolerance: 65
    unit_of_measurement: ft

automation old:
  # Proximity Testing Arriving at Home
  - alias: "Zone - Home Arriving"
    trigger:
      - platform: numeric_state
        entity_id: proximity.home
        below: 250
      - platform: template
        value_template: "{%- if state_attr('proximity.home', 'dir_of_travel') in ['towards', 'arrived'] -%} True {%- else -%} False {%- endif %}"
    condition:
      - condition: template
        value_template: "{%- if state_attr('proximity.home', 'dir_of_travel') in ['towards', 'arrived'] -%} True {%- else -%} False {%- endif %}"
      - condition: numeric_state
        entity_id: proximity.home
        below: 250
    action:
      - service: script.notification_alert
        data:
          title: "Zone Proximity"
          message: "Arriving at Home"
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I now do it with a node-red flow. which is alot cleaner. I dont need three automation and a input Boolean to achieve the same thing like I did before.

My flow looks like this…

Trigger node: Triggers when a chosen device tracker current state is “not_home” and previous state was “Work”

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Wait Until Node: Wait until “Proximity” of chosen node is below 4. using the proximity component in HA.

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Change Node: Sets payload to Message for notification “Dad is nearly home”

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Throttle node: Only passes one payload per hour.

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Call service: Send notification using your chosen notification service

Node red export

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