I created an automation that turns on my porch lights when motion is detected by my Ring Doorbell. I don’t see any option where I can say “turn on porch light for x minutes”. So I created a second automation to turn off the porch light after it stops seeing motion for 1 minute. The problem with this…

Never Ending Motion Loop

sidjohn1 (sidjohn1) January 18, 2019, 3:21am 3

You’ll need a pause to stop the loop

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Throttle Notifications?

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