Turn back on the lights within 5 minutes if someone returns to the area

[willow path]

I want to create an script which will remember for each area in my apartment current lights that are on/off (current scene) and if motion detector detects that nobody in a room, turn off lights.
When someone enters in that room within less than 5 minutes setup lights as was

Is it doable? Im looking for some clean solution for templating maybe area and for each area to get all the lights entities and states, and put it into service scene.create, and the trigger would be motion detection -> cleared

[tawdry dirge]

you could use something like this:

trigger: presence sensor goes from detected to clear

actions:

create scene with entities you want to remember

wait for trigger of sensor moving from clear to detected with 5 minute timeout.

IF sensor = detected (meaning was triggered by someone and not the timeout) THEN activate scene

[tawdry dirge]

heres a quick example i mocked up
obviously the entity names will be different on your setup etc... but gives you an example flow to look at

description: ""
mode: single
triggers:
  - trigger: state
    entity_id:
      - binary_sensor.everything_presence_one_046990_occupancy
    from: "on"
    to: "off"
conditions: []
actions:
  - action: scene.create
    metadata: {}
    data:
      scene_id: remembered_state
      entities: switch.mini1pmg3_garagelight_switch_0
  - wait_for_trigger:
      - trigger: state
        entity_id:
          - binary_sensor.everything_presence_one_046990_occupancy
        from: "off"
        to: "on"
    timeout:
      hours: 0
      minutes: 5
      seconds: 0
      milliseconds: 0
  - if:
      - condition: state
        entity_id: binary_sensor.everything_presence_one_046990_occupancy
        state: "on"
    then:
      - action: scene.turn_on
        metadata: {}
        data: {}
        target:
          entity_id: scene.remembered_state

[willow path]

Ok and how to do it with multiple areas, script can be overlapping with different motion senzora

[tawdry dirge]

do you mean you want different timers and scene saving for each room?

if so then just make an automation for like the above for each room. just name the remembered state scene differently

[willow path]

Maybe I can put everything into one place

And use different triggers?

[tawdry dirge]

for this particular thing I would suggest multiple automations.
the reason for this is because its an automation that runs for a while you really want the protection of the mode type stopping multiple running at the same time in case something goes wrong.
if you have multiple running then you will have to change the mode type to allow multiple instances of the automation to be running at the same time.
in theory yes it should be fine but i think it would be safer and less likely to have issues if it were separate automations.

[willow path]

https://pastebin.com/jFrh7ZMV

First I want to create a script like this, which I will use multiple times, for multiple rooms.
But Im having an issue with this script, when I add fields, it throwa an error:
Message malformed: Entity {% if motion_sensors is string %} {{ motion_sensors }} {% else %} {{ motion_sensors | list }} {% endif %} is neither a valid entity ID nor a valid UUID for dictionary value @ data['entity_id']
@tawdry dirge

[tawdry dirge]

why do you want to do it this way?

[willow path]

alias: Preserve Lights
description: Universal automation that preserves lights for any room when motion goes off
triggers:
  - trigger: state
    entity_id: binary_sensor.athom_office_presence_occupancy
    from: "on"
    to: "off"
    id: office
conditions: []
actions:
  - data:
      scene_id: office_lights_preserved
      snapshot_entities:
        - light.office_all_lights
    action: scene.create
  - wait_for_trigger:
      - trigger: state
        entity_id: binary_sensor.athom_office_presence_occupancy
        from: "off"
        to: "on"
    timeout:
      minutes: 5
    continue_on_timeout: false
  - condition: state
    entity_id: binary_sensor.athom_office_presence_occupancy
    state: "on"
  - action: scene.turn_on
    data:
      entity_id: scene.office_lights_preserved
mode: parallel
max: 10

This is my updated script

now I want to do it for livingroom, bathroom etc. Thinking to create a custom utility script which will be called multiple times fore different areas, to create scene

[willow path]

still doesn't work lol

[candid eagle]

You used the automation (not script) above? Two things i notice, you don't turn off the lights. And you use light.office_all_lights which is I guess a light group? That group will not contain the setting for each light.

[willow path]

Im using another script for turning lights off:
https://pastebin.com/K261q14K

So yes this is automation script.
And what you are trying to tell me that group light can't be put for scene create, as scene doesn't know which light in a group is turned on or off?

[willow path]

So, the issue was to uncheck this option "All entities", and works perfectly fine with this light group, so your guessing is not correct.

apparently not