Keep track which motion sensor has been triggered most recently?

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I would like to be able to send notifications only to the room where the last motion was detected.
Can anyone please give me some pointers on how to achieve this?

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Not quite sure exactly what you’re wanting to do. But, as best as I can understand, this may help.

Make an input text sensor that holds the last zone. Set an automation that is triggered when you recognize motion in a zone. The output of that automation sets the value of the input sensor to the zone name. Then you can send whatever notifications you want sent to the zone saved in the input sensor.

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Hi Matt, thanks for jumping in (after 4y not having posted anything!)

I want to use an automation for notifications of all sorts to play on a media player in the area where motion has been detected instead all over the place, so a follow me for notifications.

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I do this with Variables+History. Works quite well, but it’s only really totally reliable when there’s only one person in the house - even a dog can be misleading.

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Hi Jack, thanks for that link!

Well, for the dogs, I have the motion sensors at the same level as the light switches and covered the lower half with aluminum foil; works perfect.