Those trigger-state nodes probably aren’t doing exactly what you think they’re doing. They’re normally used as a start of a flow not as a conditional.
I’m totally confused what I need to do…
All I want is:-
Turn on the HT Power via Hue App (this turns on power to equip rack) then through the flow turn on HT Lights and Millen Falc Power (effects lighting)
Then when a movie or tv show is playing:-
- Turn lights off, then
- Turn lights on when a movie or tv show is paused, then
- Turn lights on when a movie or tv show has stopped.
The switch node’s configured with… on. off, playing, paused, idle (from top to bottom).
I have disconnected all flows now.
Yes you probably can get rid of either the trigger-state nodes the state nodes. The trigger state nodes will always fire if the conditions are met, even if there is no previous incoming payload from another node.
So basically, you only need to:
- check the state of the HT Power (make sure to select the option of: Only update on state change) and then turn on (off) the power to the lights (i’d use a switch node for that too).
- Check the state of KODI and turn off/on the lights based on the status with your switch node.
If the lights are only ever on if the HT Power is on, then you can also skip the state check of the lights.
Is this what you mean AlmostSerious??
After I turn on the HT Power via the Hue App, HT Power & the HT Lights & Millen Falc switch turn on but there is no change to them when I press play, pause or stop on Kodi…they remain on.
Seems fine. If it doesn’t change your lights when paused, playing etc then it seems something is wrong with handling of the state.
I see that you changed the node from a state node to a udp/tcp? node.
Not sure what exactly you are using to check the current state of your kodi. You might need to check the payloads via the debug node to make sure your switch node can handle it the way you want it to.
If you can post the debug node output (full message) then we can help you in identifying the correct msg to use. (Unfortunately i dont use KODI myself to quickly check on my instance)
AlmostSerious
I have changed to this config and all seems to be working the way I want… thanks for you input!!
I thought I had to have the Kodi udp/tcp node linked to the Trigger State Kodi HT node for this to work…I removed it and added the Trigger State Kodi HT state node.
One additional function I’d like, is when I shutdown Kodi via the remote app on my tablet, the HT Power turns off thus eliminating one action…how do I achieve this??
Update: Something is amiss…the lights came on randomly last night while we were watching shows. I was able to turn them off using the hue app - is the Trigger State Kodi HT doing this??
- Can you share an image of your Trigger State Config?
- Did you select the “output only on state change” in the HT Power State Node?
You want to turn off all the lights when the HT Power turns off?
Easy, use the same logic as with the switch for the HT Power State. On = Turn On Light, Off = Turn Off Light.
Yes…It works as expected. Though now that is all that happens. When I watch a Movie or TV Show the lights stay on.
Got it!
Ah, we’re getting closer 
So your trigger doesnt use any conditions. In that case simply use a state node.
Same as with HT Power.
In order to find out what service call is turning on the lights i might suggest adding some debug nodes.
Connect them after the Lights Service Call amd set them to show the full message. Then let it run in the background until it happens and check the debug field in nodered. It will show you where its coming from and help in identifying a solution.
Hope this is what you mean?? The lights came on when I turned off the HT Power when I had finished viewing and I think it make be due to the fact the last item on the switch was configured as “idle”…
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I have since changed ‘idle’ to ‘stopped’ hoping the HT Lights would come on when I tapped stop on my remote app…but they didn’t. I still wanted to scroll through my library for next movie but the lights stayed off…any suggestions??
Ok,… so let me try to understand. You only want the lights to turn on (EVER) if the HT Power is on as well correct? So depending on what you currently emply in your node, either add this constraint to your trigger state, or add an additional current state node that checks for the HT Power after the Kodi State Node. That would stop them turning on when your HT Power is off, but your Kodi reports, idle or stopped.
So… i just created a mockup of your setup in my NodeRed.
As i dont have your devices, i just replaced the HT Power with a switch and the Kodi with one of my plex players.
Please try it out for yourself.
Works fine for me.
[
{
"id": "fdb3cb0b.429ab8",
"type": "server-state-changed",
"z": "6b8efe0d.bc75e",
"name": "HT POWER",
"server": "2fba4297.e4145e",
"version": 1,
"entityidfilter": "switch.adguard_parental_control",
"entityidfiltertype": "exact",
"outputinitially": true,
"state_type": "str",
"haltifstate": "",
"halt_if_type": "str",
"halt_if_compare": "is",
"outputs": 1,
"output_only_on_state_change": true,
"x": 190,
"y": 1020,
"wires": [
[
"71a4668a.3ac128"
]
]
},
{
"id": "71a4668a.3ac128",
"type": "switch",
"z": "6b8efe0d.bc75e",
"name": "",
"property": "payload",
"propertyType": "msg",
"rules": [
{
"t": "eq",
"v": "on",
"vt": "str"
},
{
"t": "eq",
"v": "off",
"vt": "str"
}
],
"checkall": "true",
"repair": false,
"outputs": 2,
"x": 380,
"y": 1000,
"wires": [
[
"eed144a6.54b358",
"5541ed08.1c2c14"
],
[
"eed144a6.54b358",
"967220d3.57dd3"
]
]
},
{
"id": "eed144a6.54b358",
"type": "debug",
"z": "6b8efe0d.bc75e",
"name": "",
"active": true,
"tosidebar": true,
"console": false,
"tostatus": false,
"complete": "true",
"targetType": "full",
"x": 610,
"y": 920,
"wires": []
},
{
"id": "b5b26840.7163e8",
"type": "comment",
"z": "6b8efe0d.bc75e",
"name": "ON",
"info": "",
"x": 630,
"y": 980,
"wires": []
},
{
"id": "8919e0ed.d37f7",
"type": "comment",
"z": "6b8efe0d.bc75e",
"name": "OFF",
"info": "",
"x": 630,
"y": 1120,
"wires": []
},
{
"id": "a7fb31ed.2b483",
"type": "inject",
"z": "6b8efe0d.bc75e",
"name": "",
"topic": "msg.payload",
"payload": "on",
"payloadType": "str",
"repeat": "",
"crontab": "",
"once": false,
"onceDelay": 0.1,
"x": 180,
"y": 940,
"wires": [
[
"71a4668a.3ac128"
]
]
},
{
"id": "84495d95.c6fcb",
"type": "inject",
"z": "6b8efe0d.bc75e",
"name": "",
"topic": "msg.payload",
"payload": "off",
"payloadType": "str",
"repeat": "",
"crontab": "",
"once": false,
"onceDelay": 0.1,
"x": 180,
"y": 980,
"wires": [
[
"71a4668a.3ac128"
]
]
},
{
"id": "5541ed08.1c2c14",
"type": "api-call-service",
"z": "6b8efe0d.bc75e",
"name": "",
"server": "2fba4297.e4145e",
"version": 1,
"service_domain": "light",
"service": "turn_on",
"entityId": "light.living_room_back_left",
"data": "",
"dataType": "json",
"mergecontext": "",
"output_location": "",
"output_location_type": "none",
"mustacheAltTags": false,
"x": 670,
"y": 1020,
"wires": [
[]
]
},
{
"id": "967220d3.57dd3",
"type": "api-call-service",
"z": "6b8efe0d.bc75e",
"name": "",
"server": "2fba4297.e4145e",
"version": 1,
"service_domain": "light",
"service": "turn_off",
"entityId": "light.living_room_back_left",
"data": "",
"dataType": "json",
"mergecontext": "",
"output_location": "",
"output_location_type": "none",
"mustacheAltTags": false,
"x": 670,
"y": 1160,
"wires": [
[]
]
},
{
"id": "f5ba2e60.9bb96",
"type": "trigger-state",
"z": "6b8efe0d.bc75e",
"name": "",
"server": "2fba4297.e4145e",
"entityid": "media_player.plex_desktop_o5fu3ku",
"entityidfiltertype": "exact",
"debugenabled": false,
"constraints": [
{
"id": "hquhg30r2jn",
"targetType": "entity_id",
"targetValue": "switch.adguard_parental_control",
"propertyType": "current_state",
"propertyValue": "new_state.state",
"comparatorType": "is",
"comparatorValueDatatype": "str",
"comparatorValue": "off"
}
],
"constraintsmustmatch": "all",
"outputs": 2,
"customoutputs": [],
"outputinitially": false,
"state_type": "str",
"x": 190,
"y": 1180,
"wires": [
[
"da884cb1.36b77",
"eed144a6.54b358"
],
[]
]
},
{
"id": "da884cb1.36b77",
"type": "switch",
"z": "6b8efe0d.bc75e",
"name": "",
"property": "payload",
"propertyType": "msg",
"rules": [
{
"t": "eq",
"v": "playing",
"vt": "str"
},
{
"t": "eq",
"v": "stopped",
"vt": "str"
},
{
"t": "eq",
"v": "paused",
"vt": "str"
}
],
"checkall": "true",
"repair": false,
"outputs": 3,
"x": 470,
"y": 1180,
"wires": [
[
"967220d3.57dd3"
],
[
"5541ed08.1c2c14"
],
[
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]
]
},
{
"id": "2fba4297.e4145e",
"type": "server",
"z": "",
"name": "Home Assistant",
"legacy": false,
"hassio": true,
"rejectUnauthorizedCerts": true,
"ha_boolean": "y|yes|true|on|home|open",
"connectionDelay": true
}
]
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Wow…that’s a bit more complicated than my setup.
It took me a while to work out how where all the values were…but I got it done in the end!
I am stumped though, on how to apply these settings to my trigger-state??
“constraints”: [
{
“id”: “hquhg30r2jn”,
“targetType”: “entity_id”,
“targetValue”: “switch.adguard_parental_control”,
“propertyType”: “current_state”,
“propertyValue”: “new_state.state”,
“comparatorType”: “is”,
“comparatorValueDatatype”: “str”,
“comparatorValue”: “off”
In the meantime, I deployed these changes and fired up my system and everything worked the way I want.
Thanks so much for your input AlmostSerious…your a saint!!
This is my flow now…
Simply click on add constraint, and add the HT Power as Entity ID and Current State to on.
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Got it!!
Thanks again for your help … I really appreciate it!!
) to learn from ?Having some annoying activity every time we watch movies etc…the lights come on at random times. This only started a couple of days ago after a period of the flow working perfectly.
This is the only info in the debug mode…hope it helps??
{"topic":"light.home_theatre_gpo","payload":"off","data":{"entity_id":"light.home_theatre_gpo","old_state":{"entity_id":"light.home_theatre_gpo","state":"unavailable","attributes":{"friendly_name":"Home Theatre GPO","supported_features":63},"last_changed":"2019-10-25T20:03:32.215389+00:00","last_updated":"2019-10-25T20:03:32.215389+00:00","context":{"id":"29e4eacdb4d54075a8397fbfe42fee5e","parent_id":null,"user_id":null}},"new_state":{"entity_id":"light.home_theatre_gpo","state":"off","attributes":{"min_mireds":153,"max_mireds":500,"effect_list":["colorloop","random"],"friendly_name":"Home Theatre GPO","supported_features":63},"last_changed":"2019-10-25T20:03:33.080847+00:00","last_updated":"2019-10-25T20:03:33.080847+00:00","context":{"id":"bcab054c4e4f4368856d4d2c4bafaa82","parent_id":null,"user_id":null},"timeSinceChangedMs":80}},"_msgid":"b26cbfde.7891b"}
Looks like your state changed to unavailable and then to off again. Maybe you lost connection to your device shortly. In this case, maybe you need to filter out the unavailable message if this happens often.
Would this be done by changing the properties of the HT Power node to ‘stopping after first match’ ?? like this below…
Possibly. Depends on where the failure is coming from. But this could already be enough.
It’s gone crazy! Lights are coming on at irregular intervals and the only way I can seem to stop it is to disable the flow completely.
Here are the latest debug messages:-
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I am not using the ‘stopping after first match’ as indicated previously.