Help with automation coming home/leaving home

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I have two automations.
One for coming home:

- id: erster_kommt_nach_hause
  alias: Erste Person kommt nach Zuhause
  initial_state: on
  trigger:
  - platform: state
    entity_id: group.alle_personen
    to: 'home'
  action:
  - .....

And one for leaving home:

- id: letzter_verlasst_zuhause
  alias: Letzte Person verlässt Zuhause
  initial_state: on
  trigger:
  - platform: state
    entity_id: group.alle_personen
    from: 'home'
  action:
  - .....

This is working.

But if I drive and touch the border of the home zone, this automation are triggering. First the coming home automation and shortly after the leaving home automation.
Is there a way that this automations only trigger, if I am at least one minute inside/outside this zone?

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  trigger:
  - platform: state
    entity_id: group.alle_personen
    to: 'home'
    for: 
      minutes: 1
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Thanks @tom_l for your answer.
This would only work for the coming home automation.
This don‘t work for the leaving home automation.
The option for requires to: state
Also the automation would trigger every time I’m touching the border of the zone +1 minute.

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- condition: template
       value_template: >
           {{ (as_timestamp(now()) - as_timestamp(states.group.alle_personen.last_changed)) > 60 }}

Add this condition to both automations. Trigger will only take place when the status of ‘group.alle_personen’ has not changed in the last 60 seconds

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Thank you @haaghala.
Can you also please tell me, how this condition must look like if I have the following trigger?

  trigger:
  - platform: state
    entity_id:
      - person.1
      - person.2
      - person.3
    to: 'home'
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  trigger:
  - platform: state
    entity_id:
      - person.1
      - person.2
      - person.3
    to: 'home'
  condition:
  - condition: template
    value_template: >
      {{ (as_timestamp(now()) - as_timestamp(states.group.alle_personen.last_changed)) > 60 }}
  action:
  ...etc
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Thanks again @tom_l. But this triggers if the group change the state, not the single person.

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No it doesn’t. it triggers on the individual people:

  trigger:
  - platform: state
    entity_id:
      - person.1
      - person.2
      - person.3

The condition is on the group.

Why did you change from the group trigger?

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Will this work, if person.1 is at home and person.2 is coming home?

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Group change will only detect when the first person of the group comes home. Do you need to trigger for every single person coming home?

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Yes please.

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Why not to use zones? I have this:

alias: "Otwórz bramę gdy samochód wjeżdża do strefy Brzezie"
initial_state: true
trigger:
  platform: zone
  entity_id: device_tracker.opel
  zone: zone.brzezie
  # Event is either enter or leave
  event: enter # or "leave"
action:
  service: switch.turn_on
  data_template:
    entity_id: switch.gate
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Because that would still suffer from the boundary problem in the original post.

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Try this:

trigger:
  - platform: state
    entity_id:
      - person.1
      - person.2
      - person.3
    to: 'home'
condition:
  - condition: template
    value_template: "{{ (as_timestamp(now()) - as_timestamp(trigger.from_state.last_changed)) > 60 }}"
action:
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Dota player? :wink:

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