I’m fairly new to Node Red and still haven’t decided whether I like it or not…
But that’s besides the point.
I created a small flow that turns off my AC if a window are open for more than 30 seconds.
Upon detecting that a window is opened I create a scene with current AC settings. Then I turn off the AC and once all windows have been closed I “restore” the scene and delete the scene.
After a bit of debugging I think I got it to work but what confuses me is this:
When I create the scene in Node-red the scene needs a name which it gets with “scene_id” (In my case “scene_id”: “upstairs_ac”) in the data section.
When I restore the scene I get an error if I use "scene_id: “upstairs_ac” as data; instead I now need to use “device_id”: “upstairs_ac”.
Finally - when I need to delete this scene I get get an error if I use “scene_id”: “upstairs_ac”, I get an error if I use “device_id”: “upstairs_ac” but if I use “entity_id”: “scene.upstairs_ac” it appears to work!
Would love to understand the logic here.
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