Notify when enters a zone with conditions

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Hi Everyone, just getting into HA, just wondering if A notification can be sent to a device when another device enters a zone, but only if that device is within the zone for a specified period in time. I don’t want to be notified each time the device enters the zone because the zone is the local shops and also the on the way home, I would like to only know if the device enters the zone and for example, within the zone for a minimum of 5 min’s, that would indicate to the recipient of the notification that the device is at the local shops, that way the I can call that person if I need something saving me a trip to the shops if they are already there. Hope that makes sense. Thanks in advance for any help or suggestions

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Sure you can do that. As long as you are using the person integration, the state of the zone is the number of persons in the zone.

trigger:
  - platform: numeric_state
    entity_id: zone.shops
   above: 0
   for:
     minutes: 5
action:
  - service: notify... etc
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Thanks heaps Tom, I’ll give that a crack next time I can get to it. Just learning all this stuff and getting my head around it while working two jobs and never ending maintenance work around the house so I appreciate your assistance with a solution to try.

:+1:

4

Hi Tom, can you please have a look at the attached and advice exactly what I should adjust in the YAML code?

Kind regards,
Damien

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notify_device

6

No, I don’t use blueprints.