Yes, as @matt1 surmised, the reason I set the expire was initially in my rules I was using “update” and was flooded with notifications, so I set an expire for the trigger items. Later I did modify the rules to use “changed to ON” but never made the connection that I no longer need to expire the trigger items. I am all for reducing code complexity so I am going to modify my items and drop the expire timer.
Thanks for the insight.
@matt1, I still have a question though regarding the use of the PIR Alarm and the motionAlarm. Before the 7-14 update both channels were available and worked independently. Now however, after 7-14 update, the PIR Alarm seems dead and only the motionAlarm is working. So I have FFmpegAlarm and MotionAlarm, but no separate PIRAlarm trigger. If this is how it is I can live with it, but incase this is a bug I wanted to make your aware of it because the bindings from late June seemed to work differently.