Trigger if motion active for more than X minutes

@saurabh9 Mode in [Day, Evening] is false so the condition fails and is skipped. No Wait was started at 8:18:33. What's odd, though, is shared bath motion is inactive at 8:24:41 and again at 8:25:43. I don't see it going active between these two events.

Ah, OK so in this particular case I was in the wrong day mode :man_facepalming: ... Will test again next time. Not sure what happened there though for the inactive/active observation you made.

I would clone then pause this rule. Then I would remove the Mode in [] from the cloned rule and change the time to something like 1 or 2 minutes to show that this rule does work.

In the logs, if you click on dev:24 it should list only your motion sensor. Can you see multiple instance of either activity-activity or inactivity-inactivity?

Yes, I see my motion sensor instances, but if there is no motion, isn't it expected to continue to get "inactive" events in sequence?

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My motion sensors only report when the state changes. I don't get multiple reports of the same state. It looks like your inactive events are reporting about 1:03 between 8:24 and 8:32, also between 7:37 and 7:38, but there is a 40:24 gap between the inactive and active. Not sure why it didn't continue to report every 1:03 in that time period. Your logs don't show what I would expect to see from a motion sensor.

The next release of RM will include the feature to do this natively in triggers.

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