Notify if someone arrives home (but not if you're with them)

Configuration
1

Hi all,

First off, apologies if a) I’ve posted in the wrong spot and b) this has been answered (I did search and couldn’t find anything).

What I’m trying to do is create an automation where if my wife is returning home and I’m already home, I will be notified and vice versa. If she is returning home and I’m not home, then I won’t be notified.

I have this working ok but we both went out today and arrived home at the exact time together. We both got notified that each other was arriving home. This is what I’m trying to avoid.

Yaml is as follows:

alias: Adam arriving home
description: ''
trigger:
  - platform: zone
    entity_id: device_tracker.pixel_6
    zone: zone.home
    event: enter
condition:
  - condition: zone
    entity_id: device_tracker.hotspot
    zone: zone.home
action:
  - device_id: e5abcedb4ace29ed1bd332ff94b4ea30
    domain: mobile_app
    type: notify
    message: Adam arriving home
    title: Notification
mode: single

Thanks in advance,
Adam

2

As a first thought you could use a “for” parameter in your condition like so:

alias: Adam arriving home
description: ''
trigger:
  - platform: zone
    entity_id: device_tracker.pixel_6
    zone: zone.home
    event: enter
condition:
  - condition: zone
    entity_id: device_tracker.hotspot
    zone: zone.home
    for:
      hours: 0
      minutes: 10
      seconds: 0
action:
  - device_id: e5abcedb4ace29ed1bd332ff94b4ea30
    domain: mobile_app
    type: notify
    message: Adam arriving home
    title: Notification
mode: single

This way, person 1 should already be home for 10 minutes, for example, before person 2 arrives, in order to eliminate issues when arriving home at the same time.

3

This is perfect mate thankyou.
I will give it a try and report back.

4

Had to change slightly but this works perfectly. Thanks heaps for your help.

alias: Adam arriving home
description: ''
trigger:
  - platform: zone
    entity_id: device_tracker.pixel_6
    zone: zone.home
    event: enter
condition:
  - condition: state
    entity_id: device_tracker.hotspot
    state: home
    for:
      hours: 0
      minutes: 10
      seconds: 0
action:
  - device_id: e5abcedb4ace29ed1bd332ff94b4ea30
    domain: mobile_app
    type: notify
    message: Adam arriving home
    title: Notification
mode: single
5

Looks like I jumped the gun on this.
It apparently is not working.
I have been home all day and my wife just arrived home and the notification did not trigger. When I look at the debug info I see the following:

“Stopped because a condition failed at February 21, 2022, 4:06:55 PM”

Executed: February 21, 2022, 4:06:55 PM
Result:
result: false
entity_id/0
Executed: February 21, 2022, 4:06:55 PM
Result:
result: false
state: home
duration: '2022-02-21T04:56:55.099700+00:00'

step config is:

condition: state
entity_id: device_tracker.pixel_6
state: home
for:
  hours: 0
  minutes: 10
  seconds: 0