Alarm Trigger Automation

Third party integrations Node-RED
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I’m trying to make an automation that flashes specific lights (defined by groups) red&blue when my alarm is triggered. I’ve come up with a fairly kludgy way to accomplish this, but want to restore the lights to their previous condition when the alarm is no longer triggered…but I don’t want the lights to turn off every time the alarm is disarmed, only when it is disarmed from a trigger. Any help is much appreciated.

PS, all of the lights in question, are hue, so if the “flash” command is helpful, it is available.

Interested to see what suggestions come from this talented group!

Thank you

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here something, maybe can give you an idea. this is only for one light tho, if you have more lights maybe you can do something with “get entities” node. you need to change the inject nodes with your alarm status triggers.

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first flow basically stores the initial state of the light in “flow context”, and second flow puts the light back to pre-alarm state. this example only storing the state but probably you need to store brigtness and color as well. or use fixed brigthness and color in the data box of call service node in second flow, if you don’t need to go back “exactly” how they were before

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