Is there a straightforward way to get a notification and/or turn a virtual switch on when a motion sensor has not detected motion for 24 plus hours. Ideally I would like to be notified if there has been no motion for over 24 hours and then have the ability to see a date/time stamp on a dashboard of when there was last motion.
Thanks for any assistance.
The use case: we are installing some hubitats and smart thermostats in a seniors building. Having a single motion sensor in the living room that occasionally detects motion throughout the day represents a healthy mobile senior. No motion over an extended period of time, would call for a wellness check.
The built-in Notifications app should be able to handle this pretty easily. You'd create a notification rule for each apartment unit, and set the rule to notify on motion inactive for 1440 minutes.
For the dashboard piece, you should be able to create a tile for each apartment unit, and use the Last Activity attribute of the motion sensor.
EDIT: The Last Activity attribute of the motion sensor will give the date and time the sensor had activity in general, not necessarily the last time motion was detected...if you wanted something a little more accurate, you could create a rule in Rule Machine that, every time a sensor detects motion, it updates a hub variable with the current date and time. You could then display that variable on a tile in your dashboard. More work, but better resulting output.
