It works but it is ugly

Here are the problems.

  1. My Node Red Kung-Fu is weak on my best day.
  2. This works but I think there is probably a better way.

Looking for a cleaner way to do this, any and all help is greatly appreciated. TIA.
What currently happens is I open the door to the garage (open/close sensor) garage lights turn on. then a 2 min timer starts, there is a Xiaomi motion sensor and a Tuya mm sensor ( the big black box ugly one) that are looking for motion/presence as long as there is the timer just restarts and lights stay on. This is a HA automation that I will move over to NR later. THEN the below flow is used to shut the lights off. It works but I am looking for suggestions on any way to make it better / cleaner.
Here is the flow:

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It looks like you are using Home Assistant.

I think that few here use HA, so anyone who downloads your flow will get this:
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Not much to go on, sadly.

I suspect that the Home Assistant forum is the place to ask for help.
Same advice as you were given last February!

Edit - There are some discussions in this forum about switching things on and off combining the readings from two different sensors.
I found one discussion because I posted in it, but I have seen others too.

I am using HA. I guess that is why it is not showing correctly. Last Feb huh? Well if I only run into issues once a year I guess it's OK. :rofl:. I will look in the HA forums then I guess. See you next year!! Thanks.

That's way better than my mean time between failures!

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