Delay without Message

[Zakird (Ramsay Zaki)]

For some reason I cannot figure out this simple situation. I have a flow which I need to delay in the middle for 6 seconds. However, the node before the delay doesn’t have any output message so the standard delay node doesn’t work (it expects a message to be passed to it). Is there not a basic delay/wait in Node-Red? The Wait-Until node requires monitoring the state of something but that isn’t what I need either.

[stevemann (Stephen Mann (YAML-challenged))]

@Zakird

it expects a message to be passed to it

Well, yes. All nodes expect an input to trigger them to do something. If you post a screenshot of your flow, we may see something you could do.

[Mikefila]

I going to guess the delay is after an action node. You need to add an output at the bottom of the node.