Detect if someone is home

Configuration
1

hi this will work? i only want to run this if nobody is home

- alias: Chegar a Casa
  initial_state: 'on'
  trigger:
  - platform: state
    entity_id: person.x, person.y
    to: home
  condition:
  - condition: state
    entity_id: person.x, person.y
    from: 'not_home'
  action:
  - wait_template: '{{ is_state("binary_sensor.hall_entrada_sensor_porta_42", "on") }}'
  - delay: '00:00:05'
  - data:
      entity_id: media_player.x_s_echo
      media_content_id: i'm back
      media_content_type: routine
    service: media_player.play_media
2

As I see it, when a person gets home wait for the motion detector to trigger, then announce via media player? Remove the condition and add from not_home to the trigger.

- alias: Chegar a Casa
  initial_state: 'on'
  trigger:
  - platform: state
    entity_id: person.x, person.y
    to: home
    from: not_home

Not sure if it’s what you’re after, this will run if either person comes home.

3

You could also put all the people in a group and then monitor the state change of the group.

Good to know:
A group will be ‘not_home’ only when all individuals are ‘not_home’, but it will be home as soon/long as one individual comes/is home. This means the state change from not_home to home will only trigger when nobody was home, i.e. the first individual comes home after everybody was gone - and that conveniently works with as many individuals in your group as you like.

group:
  humans:
    name: People & Devices
    entities:
      - device_tracker.him
      - device_tracker.her

automation:
  - alias: Chegar a Casa
    initial_state: 'on'
    trigger:
    - platform: state
      entity_id: group.humans
      from: 'not_home'
      to: 'home'

Hope that works - just made up the code from what I did quite a while ago.

4

I use with groups and work!
Thanks

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