What causing my home empty helper to delay?

Third party integrations Node-RED
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My wife text me again at 4:41 PM tonight that she was home and the lights didnt turn on automatically. Now I found that in item #4, I forgot to include her entity ID in the entity field. But then with that said, I cant figure out what turned off the home empty helper then.

  1. So looking at her history, she was logged home at 4:41:

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  2. But my home empty helper didnt turn off until 4:52:
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  3. Here is the only flow that changes the home empty helper. Unfortunately, I have it set to output at connect so thats why it shows it being turned off at 19:51. But we know from seeing home empty helper above, that it also turned off at 4:52.
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  4. Looking at my condition, I see that I forgot to include her entity ‘person.christina’ in the entity id field.

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But then her entity was not in that field, did it not use that to turn off the home empty helper? As I said, I cant find a home empty condition anywhere else in node red.

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Not an answer to the question but why not use a group?
Group the family and you will have home/not_home status.
If you then need a condition with guests then just add a guest device tracker that you control with device tucker see or just set the state.

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I switched to group. Working well so far.