Automate Guest Mode with Pfsense

Configuration
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I want to be able to automate my helper for Guest Mode so the lights don’t turn off when I leave the house if a guest is home. Currently I have a helper boolean that I toggle manually. Unfortunately I usually forget to enable it.

I’ve tried to create and tracker entity based on a dhcp lease on my pfsense router. The problem I’m noticing is that pfsense doesn’t release the dhcp lease for a while so I can’t rely on it turning that entity on/off in a timely fashion.

Any thoughts on how to deal with this issue?

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You could shorten the lease time on the pfSense router for the guest network but this could still be an issue to manage. Since I have a Unifi network, I use the Unifi integration to detect the number of connections on my guest network. This updates within ~30 sec. and does not depend on DHCP lease time.