I have some Zigbee/MQTT motion detectors that have a maximum timeout of 2 minutes. I want to extend this timeout to e.g. 10 minutes and I want to use the state of these motion detectors not as triggers (it’s easy to add a delay there) but as conditions in other automations.
My first idea was to create boolean helpers and have an automation that sets those to false after a delay, but boolean helpers can’t convey the “unavailable” state and also don’t have device classes, so they can only be on/off and not detected/clear.
Ideally I would create some kind of template sensor that can look into the past (“state is clear if motion hasn’t been detected for 10 minutes”) - is something like that possible?
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