Delay time trigger until motion no longer detected

@ajwest wrote:

Hello, I have a Time Trigger automation setup to turn my thermostat down at 22:00, but sometimes I am still awake and moving around in my apartment. I’d like the action at 22:00 to delay until it hasn’t seen movement for 10 minutes.

My plain Time Trigger looks like this:

- id: '1579145331076'
  alias: Living Room Temperature Schedule Evening Off
  description: ''
  trigger:
  - at: '22:00:00'
    platform: time
  condition: []
  action:
  - data:
      entity_id: climate.remote_temp
      temperature: 16
    service: climate.set_temperature

I think I could add a “condition” like:

 - condition: state
    entity_id: binary_sensor.living_room_sensor_motion
    state: 'off'

…but this would just skip the action altogether if there is still movement*. How can I get it to keep checking for movement after 22:00 and when there’s no longer any motion, continue the automation action to turn down the heat?

* Also the motion is only ever “on” for a few seconds every time it detects motion, so there’s still some likelihood that that condition wouldn’t stop it from continuing anyway because there are little windows where motion isn’t detected; it really needs to be “motion hasn’t been detected for x minutes.”

Thanks for any guidance you can help me with here!

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