Fun App needed - measure active times of motion sensors

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I've been writing a rule when it occurred to me that a useful app would fit the bill.
I have a number of motion sensors of differing brands. It would be great if I could run an app that gave back a report by taking the active to not active timer of each of my sensors for review.
Obviously it's not a daily use thing - more of an informational task.

Right now, I've a rule that has a button trigger - it then waits for a device to go motion active, logs the time, then sets a trigger to log the time when it goes deactive. subtract the two and you get your 'motion active length' value for a specific device.
I haven't figured out how to store seconds (don't need mills) - so currently my rule only shows minutes - so work to be done. but anyway - if anyone is bored....!

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The information you're collecting is also present in the Event and State details for the device. So easy enough to ask for the motion events and subtract the inactive date/time from the active....

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I expect you could append the events you are detecting in the rules to a local file, then read the file back in as part of a html file hosted locally on the HE hub, presenting that in an iFrame. No app needed.

But obviously an app would be more user-friendly to pass on to others and to configure.