#Multiple Notifications from Same Automation

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thick lark
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Hello,
I recently just had a Reolink camera installed. I am trying to have an actionable notification send me a snapshot when a person is detected. Once tapped I have it open the Reolink app. I have all this working. Although, my issue right now is if a person is detected and stays there. I will get like 10 notifications within a couple seconds. When I look at the device info I can see that the binary person detected sensor will go from detected to clear very rapidly. I think I understand what's going on with the automation, every time the person detected binary sensor changes to detected it fires the automation, thus sending me a notification multiple times within a few seconds. I don't know what to change to I guess "cool down" the notification. My idea would be to only fire the notification if the camera has been clear for 2 minutes.

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steel gazelle
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just add a delay at the end

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there's literally a "cool down" section in the docs for that 🙂

thick lark
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You know, i looked for cool down forever in the docs. I see it now, thank you. I added the delay and that does help thank you!