Hi All,
I am fairly new to node-red and have made a flow for controlling my Xbox, AV Receiver, Projector and Lights in my Media Room. The goal is to ask Alexa to either just enable Gaming Mode which just turns everything on or turn on a specific game which turns everything on, if its not already, and then start the game. I have the flow working but there’s a lot of spaghetti so I’m wondering if there is a smarter way to achieve this.
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