Automation Condition - for n amount of time

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Can for be included as an automation condition?

What I’m looking to do is turn on a light if a person entity is showing home for a minimum of 20 seconds.

The reason for this is I have just noticed whilst viewing a person state, which uses the HA companion app as the tracker, that the status changed momentarily (about 5 seconds) from their current zone to home, then back to their current zone. I’m guessing 5 seconds is the standard polling interval for the app?

So to avoid false positives like this I want to add a time constraint to the automation.

Current automation:

- alias: Front Door Light Activate Arrival
  id: front_door_light_activate_arrival
  mode: single
  trigger:
    platform: state
    entity_id: 
    - device_tracker.iphone_l
    - person.m
    - person.r
    to: 'home'
  condition:
    condition: and
    conditions:
    - condition: numeric_state
      entity_id: sun.sun
      attribute: elevation
      below: -0.4
    - condition: time
      after: '15:00:00'
      before: '22:00:00'
  action:
  - service: script.front_door_illuminate
2

This will do what you asked:

- alias: Front Door Light Activate Arrival
  id: front_door_light_activate_arrival
  mode: single
  trigger:
    platform: state
    entity_id: 
    - device_tracker.iphone_l
    - person.m
    - person.r
    to: 'home'
    for: 20
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Thanks @tom_l

I didn’t realise it was that simple.