Howdy - I have a swinging dog door that is hinged at the top that my dog can use 24h. I can add a window switch to detect when he goes through the door, but what I actually want is to detect when he has entered vs when he has exited.
I thought about an input binary helper, but sometimes he opens the door with his nose to sniff outside and doesn’t actually go out the door, so I couldn’t just toggle an input binary when the door is activated. Plus that would be difficult because the door swings so a window sensor would go open-close-open-close-open-close for a few seconds every time he goes through.
Is there a better hardware solution for this? Or should I go back to the configuration category and I can still do it with a window sensor?
Tagged zigbee because 90% of my other devices are zigbee.