Person Group Status for Not So Binary Presence Detection

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I had added to my nodered the most recent not so binary presence detection (NSBPD): Making Home Assistant's Presence Detection not so Binary (Node-RED version). Worked well enough, but a constant solution I was trying to find was how to give my home, or rather, group of people, a status that would be similar to a group made of person entities (ie if one home and one not_home, shows as home, or if both not_home shows as away). Having something like this would assist in automatons that require all people to be Away or even Extended Away. My solution is as follows:

  1. I created a new input_select (lts call it input_select.away for our purposes) with the same options as those in the NSBPD (Home, Just Arrived, Just Left, Away, Extended Away).

  2. In NODERED I create an “events: state” node to listen to entity ^input_select\..*$ with Regex selected so anytime an input select is changed, this flow would trigger. The purpose is to capture any input select changes in the NSBPD flow.

  3. The events: state node flowed into a function node with the following:

//creates values for the states
var dict = {
    "Home": 1,
    "Just Arrived": 2,
    "Just Left": 3,
    "Away": 4,
    "Extended Away": 5
}

//a function to be able to recall a key by its value
function getKeyByValue(object, value) {
  return Object.keys(object).find(key => object[key] === value);
}

//assigning values to persons based on their NSBPD status
var states = global.get('homeassistant.homeAssistant.states');
var P1 = dict[states["input_select.P1"].state];
var P2 = dict[states["input_select.P2"].state];

//Select the lowest value, convert the value to a status, and return that status
msg.payload = getKeyByValue(dict,Math.min(P1,P2));
return msg;

  1. This function node then flows into a call service node, with input_select domain, select_option service, input_select.away entityId with {“option”:msg.payload} in the data field.

  2. Now you can set automations based input_select.away which captures the whole home status instead of the binary HA status.

Nodered flow:

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