Room occupancy detection with motion plus ecobee sensor?

[nathancu (Nathan Curtis)]

If you’re up for installing a smartapp in the IDE… Look at this.

[Migrated to Custom Capabilities] Rooms Manager: Smarter Rooms: Personalized rules based home automation with rooms Occupancy sensing from devices you already have in your home

 Rooms Occupancy and Rooms Manager While ST has a concept of rooms it is essentially a grouping mechanism which does not enable personalized automation. In contrast rooms occupancy considers the room as a meta device and automates common tasks associated with a “room” physical or virtual. What makes it really useful is not just the room's occupancy state but the ability to manage automation for rooms in a set of rules for the room based on the occupancy state of the room and data from various sensors. When creating a room device through the smartapp you are able to create these rules for the rooms making your rooms really smart. What these rules enable is many common tasks around rooms which most users go through automating at some point. Us…