Help with motion/door sensor activated light

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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?

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Hi templeowls,

My suggestion is this scenario…

  1. trigger on the garage sensor
  2. condition that the mud light and the mud sensor be off
  3. action as a wait for trigger, and trigger on the mudroom sensor.
  4. turn on the mud light.

You may need to add a delay somewhere to fine tune, but that is where I would start.

3

I think that did the trick. Thanks!