Hi Blacky! Very interesting. I wrote something similar myself but I created 2 zones. One for “at home” and one for “nearby”. So when I leave home but I go to the neighbor, the security cameras switch on but not the lights/apmplifiers/tv’s switch off unless everybody has also left zone nearby. Then also all unused appliances switch off. Just a suggestion ![]()
What you can do is use the Presence Helper. When nobody is home then this should come ON and you can use the Delay Before Turning ON. Then what you do is in your action you have a condition. Say you used a A/B condition, you would set that the Presence Helper must be OFF to run the action. Then if your entering work zone or a school zone to then being away it won’t run the action until this Presence Helper is OFF and when it turns OFF you will be home or in the zone you have set.
I not sure how you set it all up but there will be a way to only trigger it once.
Blacky ![]()
Hay thanks for sharing, I have to run it through my thoughts. It’s how we keep making things better
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Blacky ![]()
Hello,
first thanks for this Blueprint. I am successfully using it since four weeks now and it works for me as expected. What I haven’t used yet though is the Bypass option mainly as I don’t fully understand the logic behind.
What I would like to do is that I could activate the Bypass when I have e.g. a guest staying at our place so nothing shuts down when all regular inhabitants are off. But I am not sure if that’s really how it’s meant to work.
Does activating the Bypass just stops the Automation to change it’s status or does it always switches the presence helper to On?
Rgds
Andreas