"Lock out"

[sgofferj]

Morning!

I have 2 rather large dogs which trigger the PIR sensors at my place. Is there any way to "lock out" the light control based on a device tracker or person entity? So that the lights don't go on if no person is home. Of course, I could create an automation with turns the light control switches on or off based on the device tracker or person entity but that's something that has to be kept in sync with changes to the magic area config.

--Stefan

[jseidl]

Currently there's no built-in feature for that. You could group all light control switches together in a group and make one automation to turn the group on/off based on the person entities. You could also group the person entities in a "Residents Home" sensor so you only need to track one sensor.

[sgofferj]

Thanks for the reply! Yes, I already have a group for all persons. Good idea with the switch group.

Generally, magic areas is awesome! I'm in the process of moving a lot of complex node red pages over to magic areas.