Combining presence outputs

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Hi all.

I have a presence sensor which works well most of the time, but I’d like to add an additional sensor in the same room to improve coverage.

On a dashboard I have the presence status of all my rooms which works well, but currently each room only has a single sensor… So I simply show the relevant entity related to presence / motion for the sensor in each room.

For the scenario where I plan to have two sensors, how can I show this on my dashboard as a single output? E.g. Show presence as being true if either or both sensors can detect presence, and show as absence if neither sensors detect presence?

Thanks in advance,

Steve

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group them together using the group sensor helper.

settings->helpers->create helper->group

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Sorry for the delay in replying, I used your suggestion the next day and it worked a treat. Also opened up my eyes to the whole world of “helpers” which has been huge as I’m a bit of a HA noob coming from Samsung SmartThings. ST has ‘virtual switches’ which I used extensively, so your reply was very useful.

Thanks again.

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:slight_smile: happy to hear! yes, helpers can be really amazing. they’ve done a great job with them.