Help with Sengled Color Bulb and automations

📐 Rule Machine®
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Recently I purchased this Sengled color bulb and since then, trying to navigate some various color combinations and situations has been challenging. I don't think what I want is too complicated, but I do believe I am going about it incorrectly.

Currently, both bulbs are set up with the "Advanced Zigbee RGBW Bulb". I've tried a few different ones such as the legacy drivers for Sengled, but they all seem to have their own issues.

  1. Situation 1: Using a motion sensor, when activated between 8am-8pm, turn on 2 Sengled Bulbs (Temperature: 3000) for 5 minutes, then turn off if no motion is active for 5 minutes.

Else, if the time is between 8pm-9pm, set the color to RED level 100.

Problem: If someone is in the room and moving around, the lights are all over the place. Sometimes they only stay on for a minute. Basically, it has challenges when someone doesn't just go in and leave. I don't seem to have an issue with the red lights at night, but they do flash what first before they turn on and before they turn red.

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What is happening is that the rule is re-triggering every time motion is sensed.

You have 2 options to resolve this issue:

  1. Stop the rule from triggering once the light is on. You can do this by adding a precondition that the light must be off to trigger.
  2. Cancel the 5 minute delay when the rule is re-triggered. You can do this by either adding a “Cancel Delayed Actions” at the top of the rule, or by changing the “Delay 0:05:00” to a “Wait 0:05:00”. (Waits are automatically cancelled when a rule is re-triggered, where delays are not.)

There are other options like doing a wait for no motion with a 5 minute duration, but one of the two above should be simple to implement.