Turn off lights with overlapping 24GHz mmWave sensors

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I have an ESPHome powered mmWave sensor that overlaps with one in another room. Since it overlaps it still sees movement so I am reliant on the distance sensor. Unfortunately I am having trouble running the “off” script. When there is no movement in the overlapping room the 1st trigger of waiting 10 minutes work, but the 2nd trigger is never fired.

I am sure there is something I am not understanding, would appreciate any insight folks can give me!

mode: restart
max_exceeded: silent
triggers:
  - entity_id: binary_sensor.esp32c3_mmwave_living_room_radar_target
    from: "on"
    to: "off"
    trigger: state
    for:
      hours: 0
      minutes: 10
      seconds: 0
  - trigger: numeric_state
    entity_id:
      - sensor.esp32c3_mmwave_living_room_radar_detection_distance
    for:
      hours: 0
      minutes: 10
      seconds: 0
    above: 151
actions:
  - alias: Turn off the light
    target:
      entity_id: light.zigbee_living_room_lights_group
    action: light.turn_off
alias: Lights Auto Off Living Room
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In case this data helps.

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Not sure what you expect us to get out of that diagram. What happens before 11:00? How are you testing the numeric state trigger? It will only ever react to a state change. If the number is already above the threshold when the automation is loaded, it will never trigger until it has fallen below the threshold and then back above it again.