Need advice on using Echo with motion sensor

[001jeff]

But, will changing to (no value set) create the issue of it not running that I ran into before? This was Terminal’s reply:

You probably have to initialize the MessageSent variable. I probably should have mentioned that.

Before you run it, just edit the variable in the variable section beside the log section. Just click on the
edit(pencil) next to the MessageSent variable and set it to your current time.

You could create code to initialize it if it’s null but once you run it once then your good.

[001jeff]

And if so, how do I create code to initialize it?

[WCmore]

Your last piston looks good, and you are right… Pressing Test will do nothing. It has to run naturally.

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I believe $now is considered “after 120,000”, so this might not be needed, but if your real-life testing fails, you can initialize that variable once by following @Terminal’s example above.

Just make sure to use a time a few minutes in the past.