Dummy "Home/Away" sensor

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Hi,

I would like to have a dummy On/Off (Home/Away) sensor that it’s state will be changed based on automations.
If no motion was detected by all of my motion sensors for X minutes, change the dummy sensor state to Away.
Then I can use the dummy sensor’s state for other automations like turning all lights off etc…

I am new to HA, and would appreciate your help.

How can this be accomplished?

Thank!

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Take a look at this

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From my experience, an home/away sensor based only on motion sensors is a bad idea. You will have wrong ‘away’ status. A lot.

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I have a new entity! :slight_smile:
Is there a way to make it look like a sensor, and not a switch?
(currently I have a toggle button)

@Shaad Thanks for the tip. I will add more sensors to rely on. What is your current setup to avoid wrong "Away"s?

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You can make a template binary sensor for that.

binary_sensor:
  - platform: template
    sensors:
      at_home:
        friendly_name: "At home"
        device_class: presence
        value_template: "{{ is_state('input_boolean.at_home', 'on') }}"
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That one did the trick!

Thank you all guys

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I am having hard time making this presence binary sensor state to change based on PIR sensor activity.

In the automations I cannot choose an entity as an action, and this entity does not show up under devices.

Any ideas?

Can I maybe add the option for entities to be chosen as an action?

TNX