If you spend a lot of time in your in your backyard and often find times where you could take care of a few tasks if you had a trowel, gloves, pruning shears, or other small item handy consider adding ...

Head to Settings > Automations & scenes and click “Create automation” to get started. Find your sensor and use the “started detecting motion” trigger as your “When” action.

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