If a rule has a conditional action, does it require a trigger.
My rule is simple, if everyone’s phone leaves the house, lock the door. Only way I could get it configured is with a conditional action
This is how I would write the rule. Well, it's how I wrote my rule. There are a bunch of right ways to write it.
triggers:
phones x,y,z presence changes
If presence x,y,z all of these is away
then
lock the back door.
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End if
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Most rules will contain a trigger to initiate the actions within the rule. Something has to occur for the actions to be executed. To answer your question though, rules do not require a trigger. You can call rule actions from other rules. I do this quite extensively. I have actions that I want executed when various things happen. Instead of incorporating those actions into multiple rules I create one rule with those actions and call that 'action only' rule from other rules.
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Add an end if.
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Another thing to consider is the fact that a single presence sensor is usually not that reliable, for various reasons. Most users use some sort of presence aggregation to solidify this. There are multiple threads that touch upon this. I have listed one below along with a presence search link. I would recommend reading through those to get a better understanding of what you can expect.
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I personally have great success with one precense setup.
I use homebridge/homekit that does this very well.
