Confused about and / or logic

Third party integrations Node-RED
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Hi beautiful people of the interwebs;

I have a newby / stupid question and I hope someone will be nice enough to clear this up. I have many scenario’s where a bunch of conditions must be true before I want something to happen. E.g. I want a light to switch off, only at a certain time, certain day and certain month but only when I am home and it is not a bank holiday. The problem I have is how to constrain the flow from left to right. It seems any check I put in midway will fire regardless of the rest. In the example below I am trying to get around the kids leaving stuff on. However the iCal will fire off an event when they change, BigTimer will fire off an event when it becomes true (as in the times and days etc) regardless of what happens before. I tried to stop BigTimer by adding a payload = stop on the input when I want to circumvent it but it just ignores that and does it’s thing. This seems to be true for all midway checks in any flow. The attached is just a simple example…

Thanks for any input!


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I have a hard time understanding your sequence. But to answer the question, the upper one is AND, the lower is OR.

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Meaning if the conditions are in line with each other if any of them is false the message stops.
If the conditions are parallell then the message slips through is either one is true (keep in mind if all is true you get multiple call service executed, this can be throttled with a delay node set to rate limit)

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Thanks for that, that is what I thought, but my issue is I keep finding the ‘do-something’ triggers regardless of what is before it.

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Your first current state has no condition in it, if it had it would have two outbound connections and the state of the entity is “off”.
Same thing with the PIR, there is no condition in it.

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Hi yes, I tried to just put it simply but looking at it again I think it might be an issue with BigTimer… when you have BigTimer in your flow it seems to fire regardless of any input. I need to override that at certain times… will see if I can come up with a function node or something. I thought passing a payload of ‘stop’ will totally override a BigTimer, but it seems not…

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It seems a lot of people, starting off stumble upon big timer, I did. I think it’s an over complicated node that replicates functionality that already exists in node red.

Start/stop times, a simple inject node set to a daily repeat.

Time conditions where a trigger does one thing at one time, something else another time.
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Sunrise node or use sun.sun in an event state node for sunset/sunrise.

traffic nodes can pause a flow and dump or resend the message when it’s released.
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Trigger state and event state nodes can be enabled/disabled as well.

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Here are two flows that provide some ways to do and, or and nand.
Its just using the if state option in the nodes and then linking them together in different ways.

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What about days of the week and months of the year? I could not find anything for that?

Thanks so much for your response(s)

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The inject node allows you to pick certain days

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There is a time node that will let you choose exact dates and times. Create an input datetime helper in HA and set the time node to that entity.

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The date time can be set from node red, the time formatter(this may need to be added) has a simple interface. It will allow you to add a specified amount to the current time, if you want to set it from an automation.

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This might already be solved, but just for the fun of it I made a datetime split/convert function node for NR. :slight_smile:

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Awesome thanks guys!!

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Thank you!

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I had it exactly as you kind folk explained, but it seems some nodes does not follow that logic, like BIGTIMER for one.

Thanks again for your time!