How to create automation when phone disconected for a period of time?

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I appreciate this is probably a very simple question, but I’m only a few days into the HA universe and know nothing about coding or YAML.

I’m trying to create an automation that makes HA stream a message through my speakers when my phone connects to the router, and it works.

However, what condition do I need to add to run this automation only if my phone was disconnected for a certain period, for example, more than 30 minutes? I tried the following, but it doesn’t seem to work:

triggers:
  - type: connected
    device_id: b32dfb1b6715a0cb67b845dfad628949
    entity_id: 8fc48416e33d5f8603a94985b27f2b85
    domain: binary_sensor
    trigger: device
conditions:
  - condition: state
    entity_id: binary_sensor.192_XX_XX_XX
    state: "off"
    for:
      hours: 0
      minutes: 30
      seconds: 0
actions:
  - target:
      entity_id: media_player.g_speakers
    data:
      volume_level: 0.5
    action: media_player.volume_set
  - action: chime_tts.say
    target:
      entity_id: media_player.g_speakers
    data:
      cache: false
      message: |

Thank you.

2

Post the full automation instead in a code block so it’s readable.

4

I assume connected means the binary sensor is on. So a condition that it should be off wont work.

I would do like this:

triggers:
  - trigger: state
    entity_id: binary_sensor.192_XX_XX_XX
    state: "on"
    id: "connected" 
  - trigger: state
    entity_id: binary_sensor.192_XX_XX_XX
    state: "off"
    for:
      hours: 0
      minutes: 30
      seconds: 0
    id: "disconnected"
conditions: []
actions:
  - target:
      entity_id: media_player.g_speakers
    data:
      volume_level: 0.5
    action: media_player.volume_set
  - action: chime_tts.say
    target:
      entity_id: media_player.g_speakers
    data:
      cache: false
      message: "Phone {{trigger.id}}"
5

Well, now it plays the message after the period of time, but even if I don’t connect back to my wifi.

6

What?
I don’t understand what you mean?

7

Well, what I want is to stream a message when my phone connects to the router, only if it was disconnected for more than 30 minutes. If it was disconnected for just 20 minutes, I don’t want the message streamed.

Currently, it streams the message after 30 minutes of disconnection, even if my phone doesn’t reconnect.

8

Ok… That wasn’t clear.
In that case your initial post was more correct.
But you need to switch the condition to a template.

{{ now().timestamp() -  states.binary_sensor.192_XX_XX_XX.last_changed.timestamp() > 1800 }}

Just to let you know.
192 addresses are internal on your LAN and not something anyone can track you by.
I also have 192.
192.168.0.147 to be specific is my HA.

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9

Wait… I messed up…

{{ now().timestamp() -  trigger.from_state.state.last_changed.timestamp() > 1800 }}

is probably correct

10

Now it works like a charm. Thank you.