Hello everyone, I have been learning NodeRed these past few weeks and my first project is to determine my house “status” depending on the time of the day AND whether or not we are home. I am defining 4 different “status” modes : Day, Evening, Bedtime and Away. I figure that a lot of my home automations can stem from those 4 statuses. For example whether lights are on or off, alarms and cameras on or off, etc…so I want to get this right.
So I started with 4 Input booleans for the Status, plus an additional one depending if the house is empty or one of us is at home. I use Life360 as the tracker to determine this portion.
I want to be able to toggle these Status(es) based on time of the day AND based on presence. Plus I want to be able to toggle them manually as well (for example toggle Bedtime when we actually go to bed as opposed to a set time of the evening -11PM in my automation-).
My flow is pasted below. I am a beginner and therefore hope that I can get some constructive ideas on how to make it better (it is working though) and perhaps it can also help a fellow beginner that would want to get started on the same.
Thanks !
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