Hi There.
tl;dr : I need suggestions for disabling / overriding automation flows “manually”.
I am a new member of the HA community, but I have been using HA for about 2 months now.
I have integrated my HA installation with Node-Red and am using it as my primary automation flow creator.
I’ve searched through the forums and reddit, but didn’t find anything to answer my question.
I need some advice on how to disable automation flows. For example.
I have a room that has an electric fireplace and some lights. My automation flow works perfectly and I’m very happy with it, but I do want the option to disable that flow, or override it manually.
For example, I want my fireplace and lights in the room to turn off and stay off when I go to bed if I toggle the light switch or tell alexa to turn off the lights, regardless of any other automation rules passing.
I’ve thought about creating virtual switches and toggling their values and then adding those to the decision tree of my automations, but I was hoping you would have some better suggestions.
Is there a way to determine whether a switch was triggered manually ( like through Alexa or by hitting the physical toggle on the wall ) or whether it was triggered by an automation calling the service.xxxx service in HA?
Thanks in advance for all your suggestions!