Zigbee motion sensor with configurable cooldown

Is there any zigbee motion sensor, where I can configure it's cooldown?

What I want to do is to put door contact and motion to my bathroom. When door is left open (to let the moisture out or whatever reason), light is turned on/off by motion. At the moment when door is closed, light turns off when you closed it from outside, but stays on if you closed it from inside. That would be achieved pretty simply:

On door closed:
1/ reset motion to inactive
2/ wait 5 secs
3/ if motion is inactive, turn off light

The issue with motion sensors is when I reset motion to inactive, it reports motion only after another minute or so. There is a hack for aqara motion sensor to put them in "test mode", which reports motion every 5 secs. But that doesn't sound right to me either, I want to to report only after door close, so the sensor should ideally support this:

On door closed:
1/ reset motion to inactive
2/ configure motion to report in 5 secs
3/ wait 5 secs
4/ if motion is inactive, turn off lights
5/ configure motion to report once a minute

This way it would work perfectly for this scenario, and also if I leave the doors open and just go there to brush my teeth, it doesn't send event every 5 secs.

Is there any motion sensor with this capability?

I have a similar rule, I use hue motion sensors set at 15 sec on the stairs and 10 in the bedroom (motion zone has 5sec clear). Hue sensors don't seem to have a blind time

Thanks Mark. There has to be cooldown time, otherwise it would broadcast motion event every milisecond when you wave your hand in front of the sensor. That would drain battery pretty fast. I googled Hue motion sensors has 15 secs cooldown. Can you please confirm, if you wave your hand in front of Hue sensor and then check Hubitat logs, how far away are those events? 5 secs would be good enough for me, but 15 is too much.

The minimum re-trigger time that can be set for the hue sensors is 10s.

Not sure what u mean by cooldown
I'm guessing inactive is controlled by the hardware not the driver as hue's seem to always report clear exactly 10 sec after motion stops
So exactly the time you stop moving plus the 10 is when it reports inactive

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I realise this isn't what you asked, but just chucking this out there. 12v honeywell standard pir through any dry contact in hubitat.

I use mine all the house with nodemcu's work ace.

/ mildly off topic.