Measuring time away from home

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Hi,
I’ve set up an automation so when one of the family members arrives home after dark the outside lights switch on. The trigger is their phone attaching to wifi. I have a problem that the phones can be off the network for a couple of minutes which then inadvertently triggers the lights.

Is there a way I can minimize false triggers, ie. Only somebody is away is greater than 15 minutes.

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Set the consider_home to your device tracker

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Or build a script that checks if people are away, then sets a counter for 15 minutes, then checks again and if people are still away fires the automation.

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You should just add a ‘for’ to the trigger section of your automation, so that it only triggers if someone is away ‘for’ so many minutes.

    # If given, will trigger when condition has been for X time.
    for:
      hours: 1
      minutes: 10
      seconds: 5
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