I have PIR in my garage and when I go inside and leave roller door open I want to be able to flick on a toggle switch on lovelace so that if the PIR detects movement in the garage it plays an announcement on my google home unit inside.
I done about an hour of searching and am pretty sure I’ve got a handle on what I need to do with the exception of the toggle switch in lovelace and how to create a toggle switch that is not linked to an entity that node red could read.
I probably over complicate it by creating a dummy mqqt switch. If you don’t set a state topic it toggles the switch - I am sure there is an easier way though
Would an input_boolean fit the bill? The state can certainly be read by node red.
I have read about creating this type of thing in a template which looks like it would probably do it.
A boolean is probably the most common thing I have seen come up in post around, possibly this might be the way to do it, I need to do some further searching as people just say use a boolean but I have no what/how to use it.
Just create a new input_boolean in configuration.yaml
input_boolean:
°°armed:
°°°°name: the alarm is armed
°°°°initial: off
(replace ° with spaces)
Then use a current state node (as you did in your screenshot) and use
input_boolean.armed
as entity ID.
Don’t know why you would need the switch node (the yellow one in your screenshot) for this.
Cool getting some great info. I got some time today (wives gone out) to make some work of this.
I just quickly made up dummy flow of what I guessed to make it easier for people to get visual and comment.
Ok so I had less time today than I hoped and whilst this isn’t the finished product thanks to posts so far I have been able to work out different ways of going about this I have implemented @capstan1 suggestion successfully into a circuit from a toggle switch on the dashboard which I can enable and disable the circuit.
I have used my garage lights as tester and not setup the google cast output yet which will be the next thing I do.
Here is pics from each area:
I added my code to the configuration.yaml file and rebooted system (here is official notes on boolean).
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