My flows are not running, can someone look to see if I'm configuring the nodes correctly?

None of them are working, and they all use Big Timer, so I’m thinking I might have big timer misconfigured?

I’ve read the documentation, but it appears to be configured correctly. I’ll use my simplest automatio, which is supposed to turn on my backyard floodlight for 10 minutes when the slider is open after sunset and before sunrise. Currently, when I open the slider after hours, it says something about manual override, I forgot to take a screenshot of it. I think it might be due to the fact I have the slider send “on” when it’s open, and apparently, that’s an override function? How else could I tell bigtime that the slider is open and if it’s dark, to run on the light?

That light also never turns on, even when Big Timer is talking about the override.

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Hey Mate,

Sorry, I’ve been meaning to reply but hadn’t got a chance. You’ve probably worked it out by now but this is how I would do it. You’ll need to enter your lon/lat in the time range node.

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This was incredibly helpful thank you! It’s working now, and I replaced another big timer node in another flow and it’s working as well!

Looks like I was depending too much on big timer and not taking advantage of the other nodes available.

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