Door sensors will push a notification after X seconds of being opened.

[JustJohn]

Hi all

I am curious to see if anyone has experience with a good sensor that:

1.  Alerts to duration of a door being opened, not just just on action (open/close)

2. Preferably does not require a hub for Home integration. 

I have scoured the interwebs and just cannot find much that meets even the first requirement. The original Wyze sensors did this, but now the newer sensors require a hub . And also, with the several recent security snafus on their part, I am not interested in adding them back into my network. 

Thanks!

[luigisemenzato]

I am interested in this too.   I'd like to receive a notification if the garage door stays open for more than, say, 5 minutes.  I am not seeing an obvious way of doing this.  With a more complete programming language, I could simply wait 5 minutes and then check the status of the door.

There is one possibility.  An automation may be able to trigger another automation, and the second automation may refuse to start when its condition is not met.  I haven't tried this yet and I am not sure that it will work.

[OpethNJ]

statement was that you didnt want another hub but Native device registration into Google Home isnt there yet. So you work with what you can.  

From a Google Home Script Editor perspective you can control timing in your STARTER with "for" and or "suppressFor". 

Within ACTIONS you can also set timers there . 

You could also leverage multiple STARTERS to get some control that way. 

After that its easy to get notification. This section of script is from a larger script I have running in my apt. I do a check for the open close state of the door at 60 seconds and 90 seconds. Keep in mind that 90 means 30 seconds after the first 60 second check.

metadata:
  name: Kitchen 3.0
  description: check to see if the Fridge or Freezer door has been left open , announce and alert. TOD check then turn on lights.
automations:
  ###
  # Fridge Check 1
  ###
  - starters:
      - type: device.state.OpenClose
        state: openPercent
        is: 100
        device: AQCS Fridge - Kitchen
        for: 1min
    actions:
      - type: assistant.command.Broadcast
        message: Check the fridge door
        devices:
          - Living Room Display - Living Room
    ###
    # Fridge Check 2
    ###
  - starters:
      - type: device.state.OpenClose
        state: openPercent
        is: 100
        device: AQCS Fridge - Kitchen
        for: 90sec
    actions:
      - type: assistant.command.Broadcast
        message: Refridgerator door is still open
        devices:
          - Living Room Display - Living Room
          - Bedroom display - Bedroom
      - type: home.command.Notification
        title: Check the Fridge
        body: Fridge Door has been open for 1 minute.
        members: #GOOGLE HOME MEMBER EMAIL

[luigisemenzato]

Thank you OpethNJ, I had not noticed the for clause in the starter event.  Using it solves my problem, and I believe it solves the OP's problem too.

[HaroldBien]

Do you frequently get false alerts, especially if say the door is opened and closed rapidly, say around 30 seconds (not super fast like 1 sec)? That's been my problem. The activity log sometimes shows missing door closed event, but even when it does capture the door close the announcement often fires anyway after the set delay.

[Reija]

I often get false alarms too, with Ikea Parasoll door sensor. Is there a more robust way to write the automation? If my starter is door opening and has 'for: 10min', could i then have a test that whether the door really still is open before notification? I tried adding a condition but it did not help:

metadata:
  name: notify if front door is left open
  description: notify if front door open for more than 10 min
automations:
  starters:
    type: device.state.OpenClose
    device: Etuovi - Entryway
    state: openPercent
    is: 100
    for: 600sec
  condition:
    type: device.state.OpenClose
    device: Etuovi - Entryway
    state: openPercent
    is: 100
  actions:
    type: home.command.Notification
    title: Front door was left open
    body: Front door has been open for more than 10min