No one is ever going to go into the Eaves besides me. I should alarm it.

[pa-wills]

I have tried to build the feature using the alert primitive. It works, basically, but there's a defect. It will send a notification each time the sensor trips, which is not great because the sensor resets itself about every 30s. I thought that using the "repeat" parameter would slow this, but alas, no.

So, I think we need to do something different:

• Alert on the trigger.
• Maintain a variable showing last time the alert notified out. Seed it with now() upon start.
• Upon triggering (state change) - check if 5 mins has elapsed since the last notification.
• If 5 mins or more have elapsed - send a notification.

So, how to invoke a script from an alert?

https://community.home-assistant.io/t/combining-alerts-with-scripts-or-automations-for-tts-repeating-alerts/63414

Hmmm, maybe automation to script....

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/script/

and the set-variable:

https://community.home-assistant.io/t/how-to-save-a-value/140294/14

Here's an argument that you should use input_variables for this type of thing:

https://community.home-assistant.io/t/any-suggested-methods-or-best-practices-for-storing-variables/3399

[pa-wills]

This integration could be the go: https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/alert/

[pa-wills]

I have the basic design working now, but when I introduce the condition in the script - it fails.

[pa-wills]

Practically completed. and merged back into master.