Heating does not switch to comfort mode when scheduler is active and person was away for less than the configured “Leaving Home Duration”

[f45tb00t]

Hi,
I noticed that the Advanced Heating Control blueprint does not behave as described when using the Leaving Home Duration setting.

Expected behavior:
If a person has been away for less than the configured input_presence_reaction_off_time (e.g. 14 hours), the system should still consider that person as home, so the heating switches to comfort mode when the scheduler turns on (for example, at 06:00).

Actual behavior:
When the person entity is not_home (for example, phone in airplane mode during the night) and the configured “Leaving Home Duration” has not yet expired, the blueprint keeps the heating in eco mode instead of switching to comfort when the scheduler activates.
The heating only switches to comfort once the person is recognized as home again.

Steps to reproduce:

Configure a person in the blueprint and set
Leaving Home Duration = 14 hours

Ensure that the scheduler activates at 06:00.

Let the person be detected as not_home for the night (e.g. phone off or airplane mode for 7 hours).

Observe that at 06:00, although the person has been away for less than 14 hours, the heating does not switch to comfort.

Expected result:
Heating should switch to comfort at 06:00 as long as the “Leaving Home Duration” has not expired.

Conclusion:
It seems the blueprint currently interprets any not_home state as absence, regardless of the configured duration. The logic should treat the person as still home until the off-time has fully elapsed.

[f45tb00t]

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[panhans]

Hey, sorry. That somehow got lost.

I will test this in my testing environment. Are you sure your server didn't restart over the time? Did you check the history of your person entity if it recognized as not_home all the time?

A trace log from the point in time when the automation does not behave as expected is usually helpful.

[f45tb00t]

Hi,

im 100% sure my server did not restart. I checked the history. I have now a workaround. With workaround means I heat all the time. But when I use the scheduler it does not work.

For instance living room

Start heating 06:00 AM and heat up to 10:00PM. Normaly the expected behavior would be, that the heating starts at 06AM. But it does not start. It only starts when I come back from flightmode, HA recognizes I am back and then the heating starts.

I only have this issue when using a schedule. If I leave this out, I have no issues

You can see it at the screenshot. I removed the schedule 12 January as it was really annoying to freeze in the living room in the mornings.