Zone Automation help

Configuration
1

I have the below Automation setup. It works, but I notice it executes twice (I receive two notifications of Everyone Away). I want the Actions executed when both devices Leave the Home Zone. Since Triggers are ‘OR’ I read to add both devices to the conditions. Is there a way to write this so the Actions are only executed once?

- id: '1567925877618'
  alias: Everyone Away
  trigger:
  - entity_id: device_tracker.life360_s
    event: leave
    platform: zone
    zone: zone.home
  - entity_id: device_tracker.life360_j
    event: leave
    platform: zone
    zone: zone.home
  condition:
  - condition: state
    entity_id: device_tracker.life360_s
    state: not_home
  - condition: state
    entity_id: device_tracker.life360_j
    state: not_home
  action:
  - alias: ''
    data:
      message: Everyone Away
    service: notify.notify
2

I’d create a group with both device trackers in it. That group then has the state of home if either are home, and not_home if none are home.

group:
  my_people:
    name: My people
    entities:
    - device_tracker.life360_s
    - device_tracker.life360_j

automation:
  alias: Everyone Away
  trigger:
  - platform: state
    entity_id: group.my_people
    to: 'not_home'
  action:
  - service: notify.notify
    data:
      message: Everyone Away
1 Like
3

Thank you. To confirm, I create this in groups.yaml. The Automations GUI is very limited, in this regard.

To look like this:
yaml_groups

4

Please, please, post code as code, not images.

That said, yes, that’s what goes in there, and yes, the automation editor is limited.

5

Thank you. Will do about the code. I wanted to picture it as I have it in that file.