I would like to find a way to start a Node Red flow from Home Assistant. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
If you have the NR integration installed use the button node to create a button inside HA. If not create a button helper in HA and use an events state node to listen for the press.
Thanks, I tried the button node but I couldn’t get anything out of the node when I changed the entity state in Developer Tools.
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You have to use the service call button.press
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Many thanks. That did exactly what I wanted.