Help with a flow

Gaara81 · January 5, 2023, 2:55am

Greetings,
I’m coming from Hubitat, which has a powerfull Rule machine for newbies like me…but felt in love with HA so i’m trying to learn.
I have very basics skills of Node Red (watching few tutorial on Youtube…) and i have problems with a flow.
basically I have a Light which is controlled for a Motion sensor and a Contact. If any of the two sensors in on, the light shouldn’t turn off.
The main problem I have is when the movement sensor goes off, but the contact remain open…the lights turn off.
I been spending all night watching for a solution…Finally I made it work. But I think I created a Frankstein’s code…and I would like to improve if anyone want wish to help me pls.

Thanks in advance…I hope my flow make u all laugh atleast
Regards,
Marc.

Gaara81 · January 5, 2023, 2:59am

The main problem is the “OFF” part (bottom one ofc). I madre a trigger that refresh every 2 sec while it loops the status of the contact and movement sensor.
Then if a Sensor is ON, I made a Reset Timer that stops the light to turn off, and if both sensors are OFF the lights are turned off after 30 sec.
Thanks in advance again

Kermit · January 5, 2023, 5:21am

break the bottom part into a separate piece where you listen for both sensors to be off and then turn the light off.

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or you could do what you’re doing but put the two current state nodes in series not parallel

Gaara81 · January 5, 2023, 3:11pm

Kermit:

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Thanks a lot, i’m going to try that flow tonight