Triggering an automation when a state has been *from* (not "to") for X time

@mikeage wrote:

Hi,
I want to trigger an automation whenever my device_tracker has been not home for a certain amount of time. The following does not work, because from: apparently doesn’t work with for:

automation:
  trigger:
    platform: state
    entity_id: device_tracker.foo
    from: "home"
    for: "00:10:00"

I can’t use to: "not_home" (which does work with for:), because I have device trackers that report zones, and I’d rather not list all of my zones in the to: field (and in any case, if they’re moving between two zones, or between a zone and the generic not_home, I’d like to combine the times when counting how long they’ve been away from home).

Any advice?

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