Counting how many times a location switched to a specific value

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Hi there :slight_smile:

For doing our tax, we need to provide an information on how many days in a year we went to our office, or worked in home office.

Now, I am thinking that it should be possible to do that with a counter …

  • I am tracking the location of myself and my wife.
  • it is either @home or the zone “office”
  • based on other information, such as : Workday / do we have holidays, etc. it should be possible to count how many times the location switched to “home” or to “office”…

BUT:
there are some additional rules that might need to apply:
→ location switched from “office” to “away” → and then back to office, within the same day should not be counted
→ location switched from “away → home” or “home → away → office → away → home” should only count for office
→ location stays on “home” for multiple days should count the “home” counter for each day…

The sensor should start at january first - and count until end of the year… a new cycle should then start… but the history needs to be stored, because I need the values from the previous year when making the tax…

Any Idea on how this could be done?

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I’m doing very similar to this. You get it worked out?

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Hi, Sorry - not really… I didn’t had the time to start looking into this yet … and I am not sure, If I will be able to do so in the next couple months, since this does not have a very high priority for me atm…

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I am going to try to achieve this with history_stats…
The only thing which bothers me is “person is jumping between zone_1 and not_home”.
Probably this may be solved w/o using history_stats: automation is triggered by “person got to zone_1” with a defined “for”, then incrementing a counter (which is reset periodically by another automation).