topic Re: Scripted Automation for Presence Sensor flooding Activity Feed in Home Automation

Scripted Automation for Presence Sensor flooding Activity Feed

FreemanAMG — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 19:39:38 GMT

I have an Eve Motion sensor that use to control the lights in my kitchen between Sunset and Midnight. The problem is that the Turn Off automation generates an Activity Event every time I leave the kitchen, regardless of time. Why are my conditions being ignored?

automations: - starters: - type: device.state.OccupancySensing state: occupancy is: UNOCCUPIED for: 4min device: Kitchen Occupancy Sensor - Kitchen condition: type: and conditions: - type: time.between after: sunset-1hour before: 12:00 AM - type: home.state.HomePresence state: homePresenceMode is: HOME - type: device.state.OnOff device: Kitchen Main Switch - Kitchen state: on is: false - type: device.state.OnOff device: Cabinet Light - Kitchen state: on is: true actions: - type: device.command.OnOff on: false devices: - Cabinet Light - Kitchen

Re: Scripted Automation for Presence Sensor flooding Activity Feed

BrienGerber — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 14:40:51 GMT

Is the action actually being performed, or is the routine just showing up in the Activity tab of the Google Home app, but your conditions are filtering out the action?

I've noticed sometimes the Activity tab will show the routine even if the conditions correctly filter the action

Re: Scripted Automation for Presence Sensor flooding Activity Feed

FreemanAMG — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 17:56:16 GMT

The actions are not performed, so the conditions do work. Apparently is related to the "For: 4 minutes" part in my trigger

Re: Scripted Automation for Presence Sensor flooding Activity Feed

BrienGerber — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 21:47:03 GMT

You also could use the suppressFor parameter as part of the starter, to prevent rapid activations in a time window