homeassistant

You should be able to handle this in HA within a single automation:

Trigger: Room is occupied (occupancy > 0)
Condition: Light off
Action:

• Call service: Turn Light On
• Wait for Trigger: Room is clear for 5 minutes (occupancy < 1)
• Call service: Turn Light Off

If you are basing your occupancy on more than one sensor state, you could build a helper to combine the states into a single sensor value, which itself might need a Hysteresis helper.

I've started moving some of my own automations over to this method. It works pretty well, but it is susceptible to being interrupted by restarts or reboots. You may need to build in additional logic to reset things to a known state on startup.

Are you doing all the logic in HA or are you using NodeRED?

I used to have a similar timer reset for my "going to bed" button that I could cancel/snooze before the events started firing. It was done in NodeRED, though, and HA just glued that logic to the UI and buttons.

hi logically i thing you are on the right track. A timer is defiantly the right way to go. You can try my blueprint for your automation. Hope it helps

@sabreW4K3
Create a timer that you set to 5 minutes.
Create an automation with 3 triggers:

1. Motion is detected
2. Motion clear
3. Timer changes to idle

Choice of three actions:

When 1:
Switch light on
Cancel timer (this takes care of motion being detected again during the 5 minute delay)

When 2:
Start timer (And let’s wait for 5. Minutes for timer to end)

When 3:
Check that motion is clear (as motion also cancels the timer)
If so, switch light off