Question About Condition With **Any Value**

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I was trying to make a condition to check how recently a child device was "seen" based on a custom attribute I have in it called LastSeen. Hoping to be able to compare the date in it to the current date plus/minus some value. While that did not appear to be the case I did see that when you select the Comparison of **Any Value** it offers an option to select how long it has been "Time since event exceeds:".

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Not what I was looking for, but sounds good right? I can just let it compare when the event last occurred (that is how I read it) and if it is longer than the X time I can have it do something. Except that is not what happens. Any value I put seems to show the "Truth" as TRUE. It is currently about 20 minutes since the event last updated.
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Yet 1 hour, 2 hours or even up to 24 hours still shows it as TRUE. If I put it for LESS than 20 minutes, I would have expected it to be TRUE... but the hour plus ones should have been FALSE.

So, I am either misunderstanding what it is supposed to do or it is not working properly. Does anyone know? I looked through the documentation but did not find any mention of this.

Please note, I do not care what the value of the attribute is in this scenario. I am relying on when the event last occurred.

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It's not at all clear what you are trying to accomplish.

Perhaps you should use Time Since Event condition.

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I was trying to determine if the event had happened longer than X time ago (specifically 1 hour). It sounds like the condition you mention is what I need.

But that still leaves me wondering, what should "Time since event exceeds" do?

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For the Condition, Time Since Event exceeds 01:00:00: it will be true when the identified attribute had an event more than an hour ago, and false when the most recent event is less than an hour ago.

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So it should work the way I thought, but it was showing true when the most event was only about 20 minutes. It should have shown false then.