So I am new to Node Red and am trying to setup a flow where my lights in the living room change based on if my phone is on the network. I have not been able to get this to fire successfully and am not sure where I am going wrong.
can you paste the flow, or show us the settings inside your state node?
Basically, use developer tools / states in Home Assistant to make a note of the states (case sensitive!) and make sure they are reflected in the output nodes correctly. So the sensor mode should be a bit like this:
What part isn’t working?
Looking again at your flow- it won’t “fire” until there is a state change. Put a few debug nodes in your flow, then turn your phone off then on to force a change. I would be interested in seeing both outputs of the state node.
It looks like it did fire once, but maybe the switch node isnt set correctly? as @stevemann said, add a debug node or two to see whats going on
Thanks for this, I didn’t know you could do this. Does this help?
{
"id": "19b31a122cbe9ce0",
"type": "tab",
"label": "Turn off lights when leaving",
"disabled": false,
"info": "",
"env": []
},
{
"id": "76651ef9986ec75a",
"type": "api-call-service",
"z": "19b31a122cbe9ce0",
"name": "",
"server": "58789d9e.7d1274",
"version": 5,
"debugenabled": false,
"domain": "light",
"service": "turn_on",
"areaId": [
"living_room"
],
"deviceId": [
"4623a128d632836e2aab5a950fc32a80"
],
"entityId": [
"light.living_room"
],
"data": "",
"dataType": "jsonata",
"mergeContext": "",
"mustacheAltTags": false,
"outputProperties": [],
"queue": "none",
"x": 790,
"y": 420,
"wires": [
[]
]
},
{
"id": "4260e58afe36c90d",
"type": "api-call-service",
"z": "19b31a122cbe9ce0",
"name": "",
"server": "58789d9e.7d1274",
"version": 5,
"debugenabled": false,
"domain": "light",
"service": "turn_off",
"areaId": [
"living_room"
],
"deviceId": [
"4623a128d632836e2aab5a950fc32a80"
],
"entityId": [
"light.living_room"
],
"data": "",
"dataType": "jsonata",
"mergeContext": "",
"mustacheAltTags": false,
"outputProperties": [],
"queue": "none",
"x": 1010,
"y": 560,
"wires": [
[]
]
},
{
"id": "60e60026ea707dea",
"type": "time-range-switch",
"z": "19b31a122cbe9ce0",
"name": "",
"lat": "",
"lon": "",
"startTime": "08:00",
"endTime": "17:00",
"startOffset": 0,
"endOffset": 0,
"x": 810,
"y": 600,
"wires": [
[
"4260e58afe36c90d"
],
[
"5e2e77ea5df13fbd"
]
]
},
{
"id": "5e2e77ea5df13fbd",
"type": "api-call-service",
"z": "19b31a122cbe9ce0",
"name": "",
"server": "58789d9e.7d1274",
"version": 5,
"debugenabled": false,
"domain": "light",
"service": "turn_on",
"areaId": [
"living_room"
],
"deviceId": [
"4623a128d632836e2aab5a950fc32a80"
],
"entityId": [
"scene.living_room_scene"
],
"data": "",
"dataType": "jsonata",
"mergeContext": "",
"mustacheAltTags": false,
"outputProperties": [],
"queue": "none",
"x": 1010,
"y": 620,
"wires": [
[]
]
},
{
"id": "40fd97542a41b1ad",
"type": "server-state-changed",
"z": "19b31a122cbe9ce0",
"name": "",
"server": "58789d9e.7d1274",
"version": 5,
"outputs": 2,
"exposeAsEntityConfig": "",
"entityId": "sensor.iphone_126_ssid",
"entityIdType": "exact",
"outputInitially": false,
"stateType": "str",
"ifState": "HomeBot",
"ifStateType": "str",
"ifStateOperator": "is",
"outputOnlyOnStateChange": true,
"for": "0",
"forType": "num",
"forUnits": "minutes",
"ignorePrevStateNull": false,
"ignorePrevStateUnknown": false,
"ignorePrevStateUnavailable": false,
"ignoreCurrentStateUnknown": false,
"ignoreCurrentStateUnavailable": false,
"outputProperties": [
{
"property": "payload",
"propertyType": "msg",
"value": "",
"valueType": "entityState"
},
{
"property": "data",
"propertyType": "msg",
"value": "",
"valueType": "eventData"
},
{
"property": "topic",
"propertyType": "msg",
"value": "",
"valueType": "triggerId"
}
],
"x": 480,
"y": 500,
"wires": [
[
"76651ef9986ec75a"
],
[
"60e60026ea707dea"
]
]
},
{
"id": "58789d9e.7d1274",
"type": "server",
"name": "Home Assistant",
"addon": true
}
]
Update: So the issue was that my HA companion app was not refreshing in the background due to it being in low power mode. Once I changed that it is now functioning as intended. Thank you for the responses.
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