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I have a bunch of presence and motion sensors (like four, but shush) and when people leave rooms I would like to turn the lights off after five minutes, however if someone returns to the room before that five minutes is up, I'd like to start that countdown again. Is there a grateful way to do this that isn't me just doing if no activity for five minutes, turn off the lights, else wait five minutes and then turn off the lights. Because that's ugly, rigid and not very smart at all.

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[–] sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How did you get into NodeRed?

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I was complaining to a friend about how clunky it was to setup automations in HA, and they told me about NodeRED. lol. Haven't looked back.

[–] sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This was before the UI or recently?

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 1 points 10 months ago

About 5 years ago, so probably before.