#Best way to layout this automation, whats the trigger/condition/activity? -Climate Automation

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late rune
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For some reason or another I'm having a hard time figuring out how to best handle this.

My goal is to turn on my bathroom thermostat when the temperature is below 45 degrees. However, If the bathroom door is open, I want a text message to tell me to close the door, wait 10 minutes for me to do so. If I do close the door, the thermostat will turn on, if I don't, the thermostat will turn down to 50.

I believe the issue I am running into is, what if the bathroom door is open before the temp drops to 45 degrees? That leads me to -> the door should be the condition, but then how to I make the action be a choose?

I feel like I'm overcomplicating this, but for some reason or another. Can anyone tell me the best way to lay it out?

Tia.

raw pasture
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I would have 3 triggers on your automation, all with ids

  1. Temperature is low
  2. Time based on an input datetime
  3. Door closing
    Conditions: none
    Actions:
    Choose temperature low trigger id:
    If door is closed: heating on
    Else: send you the notification, set the value of the input datetime helper to be 10 minutes in the future
    Choose time trigger id
    Set heating on low
    Choose door closing and datetime helper is in the future
    Set heating on
    Set datetime helper to be a minute in the past (prevents it triggering the automation again)
late rune
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I'm a little confused on 2. The time based on an input datetime. Is that a helper?

raw pasture
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You might want another trigger for the door opening for x minutes that checks if you are heating it and turns down the temperature

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Input datetime is a helper, yes

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You can make that be the time that a time trigger is looking for, rather than a string like "14:00"