Ha-switch entity input but no output

Third party integrations Node-RED
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Hello,

My flow is for 2 motion sensor to trigger some lights outside.
I’m using a ha-switch entity to trigger a simple gate from the lovelace dashboard. So for example if I go to bed the lights won’t go on because of a cat or whatever passing by.

This is working as it should. However I would like to automatically open the gate again at 6:00 and I’m trying to use big timer for this.
I can get the switch top change state with the input but I’m not getting any output, so the gate isn’t opening but the switch is change to state on.

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Any ideas on how to get this working?

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Did you set the output on state change option in the HA-switch node?

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Yup.
When I toggle the switch from the Lovelace dashboard it works perfectly.

But when I try inject the state change it does not give any output. And I’m not quite sure if BigTimer can send out the message to change the switch status. But first I need to get it working with the inject. :slight_smile:

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I do actually not think the node is meant to have an input at all.

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Hmmm, then why does it have that option though?

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I think I solved it. :smiley:

So input was possible but it wasn’t giving output.
I let BigTimer open the gate and witch a change rule switch the output from BigTimer to the necessary command to set the switch to ‘ON’.

It now looks like this.

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I was really wrecking my brain about this for the last few days. :slight_smile:

Anyway thanks for the help!