Alrighty, so I have an automation up and running that works to notify who entered/left which zones. The only issue I’m getting is sometimes I get duplicate notifications, presumably because of GPS inaccuracy on the border of the location radius.
I’m wondering about the best way to refine this. For example, I could set a condition that waits 30 seconds to see if the state is still the same, or I could simply set a condition that only notifies if it hasn’t already notified of state change in the last 30-60 seconds or something.
Has anybody tackled this? For information, the yaml is below:
- alias: Location Tracking
description: Tracks our location
trigger:
- platform: state
entity_id:
- person.<name1>
- person.<name2>
- person.<name3>
condition:
- condition: template
value_template: '{{ trigger.from_state.state != trigger.to_state.state }}'
action:
- service: notify.notify
data_template:
message: '{{ trigger.to_state.attributes.friendly_name }} {% if trigger.to_state.state
== ''not_home'' %}has left {{ trigger.from_state.state }}{% endif %}{% if
trigger.from_state.state == ''not_home'' %}arrived at {{ trigger.to_state.state
}}{% endif %}.'
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