Tuya Motion Sensors and Automations

Hi,

First post so please be gentle!

Ive read through a lot of the posts on these and saw people reported problems with Tuya integrations, particularly with these WiFi motion sensors;

https://expo.tuya.com/product/687112

However, I have managed to make some progress with this and got them to integrate and detect motion correctly which turns a light on when motion is detected which I’m taking as a small win. My issue is getting it to work the other way around.

So the way i managed to get these working is that HomeAssistant will recieve a state for around 15 seconds for whether someone is detected or its clear and then the device becomes unavailable until another state is set. So i need some help putting that into an automation script.

The only two states this can send is either “detected” or “cleared”.

For sake of argument well assume room_sensor is controlling room_light
Essentially The automation script needs to flow like this;
cleared state recieved by room_sensor
do nothing for 10 minutes
If room_sensor has not been set to state “detected” in that 10 minutes then;
switch off room_light

Just wondered if its even possible to set up an automation routine like that?

Once ive got that set up, ill share a guide as to how i got them to work along with scripts for both on and off routines because its not been the easiest journey haha

Thank You

Marc

Hi Marc,

Are you anywhere further forward with this as I have the same problem.

Thanks

Mike

Why don’t you write your automation based on detected and unavailable. Unavailable is also a valid state and could be used as a trigger