Node Red equivalent of "for"

Third party integrations Node-RED
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Hi,

I currently have an automation that looks something like this :

- alias: Alarm Armed Notification
  trigger:
    - platform: state
      entity_id: group.all_people
      from: 'home'
      to: 'not_home'
      for:
        minutes: 1
  action:
    - service: notify.notifyme
      data:
        message: Alarm Has Been Armed

I’ve managed to replicate most of it’s behaviour in Node Red except the “for: minutes :1” part. This ensures that the state has settled for at least 1min before it processed the action. Could you suggest how I can replicate this in Node Red please?

Thanks

2

Use the “delay” node. The basic flow is: have the trigger (in your case the switch to “not_home” go in to a delay node, then to the notify service call node.

If you want the delay to be sopped if you go to “home” before the delay is up, put a second trigger that sends “STOP” to the delay node when “home” is triggered.

I do a similar thing for my attic door. I want the light to come on when I open it, but turn off 5 min after I close it. Looks like this:

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Thanks.

With help from the Node-Red forum, I was also able to achieve what I needed using the built-in ‘trigger’ node.

  • Send nothing immediately
  • tick extend time with new message
  • Send new message after time delay

Thanks

4

I found this thread when I was looking for a way to use ‘for’ in a condition. In my case I want to turn the lights on when a door opens and the lights have been off for at least 5 minutes. The solution I ended up with was to use the stoplight node, like this:

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