Notify all but the person trigging

Configuration
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Hi people!

I’m trying to improve upon my entered_zone/leave_zone automatons. Today I’m sending a notification to a group whenever someone enters or leaves a zone. Now, I would like to send the notifications only to the people that didn’t trigger the event.

Example
Current solution:
Wife arrives at work, now both me and her get the notification
I arrives at home, now both me and her get the notification

Wanted solution:
Wife arrives to work, only me get the notification
I come home, only wife get the notification

In my automation I have

action:
  - service: notify.family
    data_template: "{{ trigger.to_state.attributes.friendly_name }}" has arrived to {{ trigger.to_state.state }}"

What I need (what I think I need) is to exchange the service call depending on the trigger, but this is quite hard to test :-/

Any Ideas?

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I would say you need to use the choose option.
If you have choose state if you state !== trigger.to_state.state then send message to you.
Then make another with her state !== trigger.to_state.state then send message to her.

Something like:

choose:
  - conditions:
      - condition: template
        value_template: '{{ states("device_tracker.you") !== trigger.to_state.state }}'
    sequence:
      - service: notify.mobile_app_you
        data:
          message: "{{ trigger.to_state.attributes.friendly_name }} has arrived to {{ trigger.to_state.state }}"
default: []

So if you are not the one triggering the automation then you should get notified. But if you are the one who triggered the automation then your state should be the same as the trigger.to_state.state and thus you should not be notified

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Hi!
Thanx for your input. Much appreciated. I try to use something in this direction.