Motion sensor piston not resetting timer

#1

1) Give a description of the problem
I set the lights to turn off when motion sensor’s motion stays inactive for 10 minutes. But when the timer starts it does not reset to 10 minutes if additional motion is detected.

2) What is the expected behaviour?
Timer resets whenever motion is detected

3) What is happening/not happening?
When piston detects motion is inactive it turns off the lights in 10 minutes even if there is more motion in between

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5) Attach logs after turning logging level to Full

2/15/2020, 1:16:10 PM +506ms
+2ms ╔Received event [Motion Sensor - Kitchen].motion = active with a delay of 147ms
+59ms ║RunTime Analysis CS > 20ms > PS > 26ms > PE > 13ms > CE
+61ms ║Runtime (36943 bytes) successfully initialized in 26ms (v0.3.110.20191009) (59ms)
+62ms ║╔Execution stage started
+69ms ║║Comparison (enum) active changes_to (string) active = true (1ms)
+71ms ║║Cancelling condition #2's schedules...
+71ms ║║Condition #2 evaluated true (5ms)
+72ms ║║Cancelling condition #1's schedules...
+73ms ║║Condition group #1 evaluated true (state changed) (7ms)
+75ms ║║Cancelling statement #7's schedules...
+94ms ║║Executed physical command [Lights - Kitchen].on() (13ms)
+95ms ║║Executed [Lights - Kitchen].on (15ms)
+97ms ║╚Execution stage complete. (35ms)
+99ms ║Setting up scheduled job for Sat, Feb 15 2020 @ 1:25:10 PM EST (in 540.033s)
+126ms ╚Event processed successfully (126ms)
#2

I’d suggest losing the ‘else’ and just having two separate ‘if’ blocks, one for active and one for inactive.

There is a lot more going on with the ‘stays’ than might be assumed and I think it has complicated things.

#3

A quick test seems to show that works. The timer resets on additional motion. Thanks!

#4

If @orangebucket solution solved the problem, it would be great to tick, “solved check box” for people looking for answers…