Motion Senor won't fire repeatedly is motion exists

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Hi Team,

I have a motion sensor in the kitchen that I use to turn on the lights. It trippers a timer also so that in x amount of time the lights get turned off in another piece of automation.

However, once the motion has been executed once, I can’t seem to get it to pick up on the motion again. Even for X amount of time after the lights turn off it’s the same, the motion is not recognised.

Any ideas, what I am doing wrong?

alias: Kitchen Cupboard Lights - Lights On - Movement after Sunset
description: ''
trigger:
  - platform: state
    entity_id: binary_sensor.kitchen_sensor_motion_1_ias_zone
    to: 'on'
condition:
  - condition: or
    conditions:
      - condition: sun
        after: sunset
        after_offset: '00:00:00'
      - condition: sun
        before: sunrise
        before_offset: '00:00:00'
action:
  - service: light.turn_on
    target:
      entity_id: light.switch_hallway_cupboardlightstrip_on_off
  - service: timer.start
    data:
      duration: '0'
    target:
      entity_id: timer.kitchen_under_cupboard_timer
  - service: notify.gmail_notifcation_notifier
    data:
      title: 09 - Lights On
      message: Kitchen Under Cupboard Lights Turned On / Reset Motion Time
mode: restart
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What is the device?

3

@nickrout Xiaimi Motion Sensor connected to HA via ConBee II dongle

4

Xiaomi Mi Motion Sensor White 23953

5

Solution was to set the state of the sensor back to off after the execution of the automation.

https://github.com/xannor/hass_py_set_state

  - service: python_script.set_state
    data:
      entity_id: binary_sensor.kitchen_sensor_motion_1_ias_zone
      state: 'off'

If there is another way, keen to hear it.

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Your timer stops as soon as you start it with that duration.