Hi!
I’m trying to create some light automations in our house. I don’t want them to turn on automatically during motion (we will use the wall switches). However, if the light is on and there is no motion there for 15 minutes, I would like to dim the lights to 10%. If there is motion during that time, restore the previous brightness, else turn off the light after 1 minute. Any ideas of how I could store the brightness value so I can restore that?
I can imagine a helper variable can store the brightness.
You could add it after a state change node, so the payload transfers the brightness to the helper.
I don’t have one flow that does what you want, but do have both parts in different flows.
The key part of this one is the “pause”.
I don’t do it in this flow (as the light is always 100%), but you can just get the current state values of the light and write into the message for reuse later.
Hi!
Thanks! Looks like a better setup of the flow.
I’m not so confident with the flow and passing of variables in Nodered just yet. I have the flow running and it performs it´s tasks, but not really correct. I’ve tried debugging but can’t figure this out.
It works to set the dimming level, but it doesn’t restore to it´s original state. When I debug it´s using the dimmed state, so I do something incorrect apperantly. How do I “store” the original state and how do I pass it in to restore it?
Also the weirdest thing is that in the end when it´s supposed to turn the light off, it turns it on. See the snip of the config where its turn_off service, and the result in the first snip where it says turn_on…
Could you share your flow so far please? the code, not just pictures
Hi!
Hmm. When looking at the flow again today it seems to work 
I will validate a bit more…
Here is the code by the way:
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