No events from Node-RED sun events node

Third party integrations Node-RED
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I set up a sequence to play around with NA/Node-RED. It’s pretty simple:

test-sun-flow
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The JSON for these nodes is:

[
  {
    "id": "f8ec97bd.3d1078",
    "type": "sun events",
    "z": "99c0f5d4.524f08",
    "testmode": true,
    "verbose": true,
    "topic": "",
    "name": "",
    "x": 780,
    "y": 160,
    "wires": [
      [
        "52fa425.94486bc",
        "e0c7d070.e7748"
      ]
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "82921f73.7e16c",
    "type": "api-call-service",
    "z": "99c0f5d4.524f08",
    "name": "Send sun event text message",
    "server": "cf8a6e76.d5733",
    "version": 1,
    "debugenabled": true,
    "service_domain": "notify",
    "service": "twilio_sms_notifier",
    "entityId": "",
    "data": "{\"message\":\"{{ text }}\",\"target\":\"<redacted>\"}",
    "dataType": "json",
    "mergecontext": "",
    "output_location": "",
    "output_location_type": "none",
    "mustacheAltTags": false,
    "x": 1370,
    "y": 160,
    "wires": [
      []
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "52fa425.94486bc",
    "type": "function",
    "z": "99c0f5d4.524f08",
    "name": "Set sun event text",
    "func": "msg.text = \"Sun event: \" + msg.payload;\nreturn msg;",
    "outputs": 1,
    "noerr": 0,
    "x": 1080,
    "y": 160,
    "wires": [
      [
        "82921f73.7e16c",
        "ad174085.f1a0f"
      ]
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "b430f368.3928c",
    "type": "inject",
    "z": "99c0f5d4.524f08",
    "name": "Test Sun Event",
    "topic": "",
    "payload": "test sun event",
    "payloadType": "str",
    "repeat": "",
    "crontab": "",
    "once": false,
    "onceDelay": 0.1,
    "x": 800,
    "y": 220,
    "wires": [
      [
        "52fa425.94486bc"
      ]
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "e0c7d070.e7748",
    "type": "debug",
    "z": "99c0f5d4.524f08",
    "name": "",
    "active": true,
    "tosidebar": true,
    "console": false,
    "tostatus": false,
    "complete": "false",
    "x": 1060,
    "y": 120,
    "wires": []
  },
  {
    "id": "ad174085.f1a0f",
    "type": "debug",
    "z": "99c0f5d4.524f08",
    "name": "",
    "active": true,
    "tosidebar": true,
    "console": false,
    "tostatus": false,
    "complete": "false",
    "x": 1320,
    "y": 120,
    "wires": []
  },
  {
    "id": "cf8a6e76.d5733",
    "type": "server",
    "z": "",
    "name": "Home Assistant",
    "addon": true
  }
]

I get a text message when I trigger the inject node, but after almost 24 hours of having this sequence deployed, I have received no text messages and no sun events in the debug pane.

What have I done wrong or not understood here?

2

Do you have a latitude/longitude set for your sun event? example with it set:

image
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3

Thanks, Stroo. I do have lat/lon set. I did notice while posting this that the ‘test’ flag in the sun-events node was set. That seemed not-right to me so I unchecked that box after posting and now I’m getting events.

I don’t know if unchecking ‘test’ or re-entering lat/lon solved the problem, but I got my ‘golden hour’ notification about 30 minutes ago and in about 30 more minutes I expect to get the sunset notification. I’m not 100% confident yet, but things are looking up…

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Yep. It’s working now!