I have a mudroom attached to my garage and want the mudroom light to turn on for 60 seconds when someone goes from the garage to mudroom only. I don’t want it to go when someone goes from the mudroom to the garage (i.e. leaving the house).
I have a motion sensor in my garage and a door sensor on the garage/mudroom door. Here’s the automation I came up with:
alias: "Motion Detected: Mudroom Light"
description: ""
triggers:
- trigger: state
entity_id:
- binary_sensor.mudroom_door_sensor_opening
from: "off"
to: "on"
conditions:
- condition: state
entity_id: light.mudroom_light
state: "off"
- condition: state
entity_id: binary_sensor.garage_motion_sensor_motion
state: "on"
actions:
- action: light.turn_on
metadata: {}
data: {}
target:
entity_id: light.mudroom_light
- delay:
hours: 0
minutes: 1
seconds: 0
milliseconds: 0
- action: light.turn_off
metadata: {}
data: {}
target:
entity_id: light.mudroom_light
mode: single
The problem is its (understandably) still turning on when going from mudroom to garage as both sensors are ultimately being triggered in both situations. I essentially need the automation to run if the motion sensor is triggered first.
Please note: I did try swapping the door sensor and motion sensor in the automation but it did the same thing.
I’ve racked my brain trying to think of a different way to do this, and I think I’m just being dumb. Any suggestions?