Automation: room entry and exit lights

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I’m brand new to home assistant. I just switched from smartthings and am really excited about the possibilities. I’m trying to recreate an automation I had on my smartthings system and could really use some help

Here’s my setup. I have 2 motion sensors, one on the inside of a room, and one on the outside. I’ve restricted the beams to capture only exit and entry. I have a z wave light switch in that room as well.

My general setup in sudo code would be this:

trigger:
 outside motion sensor activated
condition:
  inside motion sensor was activated in the last 5 seconds
action:
  turn light off

I think I’ve got everything figured out except for the condition. Any help would be much appreciated.

2

Did you check the cookbook?

And if you ask me, I’d only use the inside motion sensor.

3

I did see that but I don’t think that would quite work. The purpose of using both sensors in to ensure there aren’t false positives.

4

Which is why I’d go with the one sensor option :wink:

Anyway, I don’t know your local situation so please go for whatever works best for you :slight_smile:

5

your condition should be something like

{{ (as_timestamp(now())-as_timestamp(states.sensor.sn1_reed.last_updated)) < 5 }}

6

This might help.

7

Here is what I ended up doing.

- alias: redacted
  hide_entity: True   
  trigger:
    - platform: state
      to: 'on'
      entity_id: binary_sensor.ecolink_motion_detector_sensor_2  
  condition:
    - condition: template
      value_template: '{{as_timestamp(now()) - as_timestamp(states.binary_sensor.ecolink_motion_detector_sensor.last_changed) < 5}}' 
  action:
    service: homeassistant.turn_off
    entity_id: light.ge_12724_3way_dimmer_switch_level

 - alias: redacted
      hide_entity: true  
      trigger:
        - platform: state
          to: 'on'
          entity_id: binary_sensor.ecolink_motion_detector_sensor  
      condition:
        condition: and
        conditions:
        - condition: sun
          after: sunset
          after_offset: "-1:00:00"
        - condition: template
          value_template: '{{as_timestamp(now()) - as_timestamp(states.binary_sensor.ecolink_motion_detector_sensor_2.last_changed) < 5}}'
      action:
        service: homeassistant.turn_on
        entity_id: light.ge_12724_3way_dimmer_switch_level

Thanks for the help I really do appreciate it!

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