How to dynamically activate a scene based on the state of a helper

Third party integrations Node-RED
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I’ve just got an Aqara H1 switch and have create a flow in Node Red to switch on or off lights in two zones in our lounge based on their state using a single click.

Next I was to use the double click action to cycle through scenes. I’ve stored the scenes in a drop-down helper and can obtain the state and progress through the scenes with no issues in Node Red. But I don’t seem to be able to use the state of the helper to activate a scene.

Can anyone advise on the best way to make this work? Thanks in advance :slight_smile:

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Rather than checking the current state of the helper you should have a state change event node (on the helper) which triggers the desired actions.

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Thanks for your reply. It’s not the trigger part that’s a problem, it’s activating the correct scene using the contents of the helper. Roughly this:

WHEN the wall switch receives a double click action

  1. Select the next value from the helper list
  2. Get the newly selected scene frome the helper e.g. scene.lounge_bright
  3. Trigger the scene.lounge_bright scene.

The last part is difficult because the scene is dynamic, I can’t find a way using the scene call service to trigger the specific scene.

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Just to provide some further detail, I’ve created a workaround which allows the scenes to be changed based on the helper value, but it isn’t dynamic and is difficult to maintain. The benefit of dynamically using a value from a helper to select the scene is that you only need to maintain the selectable scene list within the helper.

My workaround uses a switch which depended on having knowledge of the values in the switch. It also means that the selectable scenes need to be updated in the switch and a call service node for each possible scene needs to be created.

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Great solution @Kermit, thanks for your help :slight_smile:

That code allows me to just add a new scene to the helper and not touch the Node Red flow which is just what I wanted.

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Hey @jamieyates79 any chance you could share you final flow? :grinning: