How to keep a service from running during a certain time period

Deckerjs57 · January 7, 2021, 10:55pm

I have a lamp that during the day I trigger to turn on by a motion sensor and light level and then turn off after 10 minutes of no motion. I also trigger the lamp to turn on at sunset and turn off at 1am, but I don’t want to lamp to turn off during that time. So my question is how do I keep the lamp from turning off. TIA

Deckerjs57 · January 8, 2021, 9:02pm

Here is my flow, I’m wanting to stop the Stoptimer during the time period of the Bigtimer.

Any ideas?

sheminasalam · January 9, 2021, 2:04am

Just use a time range switch node between the motion detection and timer node to allow it to function outside the time range of the daily routines. Time range switch node will already be present in nodered or just take a look @ https://flows.nodered.org/node/node-red-contrib-time-range-switch .

Deckerjs57 · January 9, 2021, 5:22am

Thanks for your help, that is what I was looking for and it works great. I was trying different nodes and configurations but just didn’t see this node. I’m retired and trying to learn node-red. Node-Red seems easier to me than yaml.

sheminasalam · January 9, 2021, 5:34am

node red is pretty much straight forward and if you find anything you need help with you always have both this and the node red community.

Deckerjs57 · January 9, 2021, 8:18pm

sheminasalam, do have any idea as to why the light level node isn’t working? It works one time and then wont work again even if the light level is below the setpoint.

sheminasalam · January 10, 2021, 12:52am

It would be best if you can share the flow to analyze it. If exporting code is not familiar to you just follow these step. To share the flow, you should select the entire flow and then press CTL+E. Then the export node window will appear, the code in that window is the that of the flow. Click copy to clipboard tab at the bottom and share it. If there are any passwords in the flow please make sure you remove it from the code before sharing.

Deckerjs57 · January 10, 2021, 2:55am

Deckerjs57 · January 10, 2021, 2:56am

The light level was at 18.5 which was less than the setpoint.

sheminasalam · January 10, 2021, 3:12am

Instead of using a trigger-state node to check the light level, try using a current state node. It will be simpler. You can try this edit

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Deckerjs57 · January 10, 2021, 3:37am

Giving it a try right now. Thanks

Deckerjs57 · January 10, 2021, 3:41am

Looks like that took care of it. Does the trigger-state only work if the value changes? That’s what it’s looking like to me.

sheminasalam · January 10, 2021, 4:20am

I don’t have too much experience with trigger-state node. Mostly the other nodes are sufficient to get the job done.

Deckerjs57 · January 11, 2021, 8:48pm

The logic works great thanks for your help. Now I have another question. Lets say if someone turns the livingroom light on by voice command, is there a way to disable the call-service to turn it off if the motion sensor gets triggered?

sheminasalam · January 12, 2021, 12:51am

What is the device you are using for voice commands-alexa/google home? Is this device integrated with HA? Also what kind of switches are you using?

Deckerjs57 · January 12, 2021, 2:03am

google home and the switches are tuya

sheminasalam · January 12, 2021, 2:21am

Is the google home integrated to HA or nodered? I believe that the tuya switches are running with the stock firmware and not tasmota… If you have integrated google home to HA or have the nora service running in node red we might have a work around for this.

Deckerjs57 · January 12, 2021, 2:36am

my google home devices are showing up in the intergrations

sheminasalam · January 12, 2021, 2:52am

yes. but are these showing up in the Google Cast integration? If this is the case we can only control the google home devices as media player i,e to play audio, tts etc and cannot control switches or devices in google home. We need other integrations such as, in your case you might be using the tuya integration in HA to connect HA to tuya devices…are you?

Deckerjs57 · January 12, 2021, 2:57am

Yes, I’m using tuya integrations for HA and the google devices are showing up in Google Cast