Timers for on/off delay

[rlkoshak (Rich Koshak)]

If you are on OH 2.2 and configure ARPING it will detect your phone even while it is asleep.

@steven_191

so I was thinking what would be better is if the presence is detected, start a timer for Xminutes. if the timer runs out without the presence pinging again, go off, otherwise if it pings reset the timer.

This is already basically how the Network binding works.

if you want to use the state of your Network binding to set the state in some other item based on a timer see the following.

Generic Presence Detection

Edit: A rewrite to take advantage of the Debounce rule template on the marketplace. This is a tutorial to show a generic and sensor independent way to do presence detection with multiple sensors and implementing anti-flapping (i.e. all sensors must be OFF for a certain amount of time before the home goes to away). Requirements One or more Switches determines whether someone is present. If one or more of these Switches is ON then someone is presumed to be present (more complex algorithms are …