Why are people asking the same questions over and over again? (Or the Regulars' Chatroom) 🤷

[Stiltjack]

Maybe we need a collection of simpler stuff in Community Guides - or a new “Cookbook” category. To go back to the OP, @tom_l has done a post on this which deals with the question in a few lines:

Motion activated lights automation

This gets asked a lot so here is an example for automating a light to come on with movement and go off after there is no movement for a short time. trigger: - platform: state entity_id: binary_sensor.your_motion_sensor_here # change this to: 'on' - platform: state entity_id: binary_sensor.your_motion_sensor_here # change this to: 'off' for: minutes: 2 # adjust as necessary action: - service: "light.turn_{{ trigger.to_state.state }}" target: entity_id: …