Node Red - function delay

[thefjordkeeper (Kevin Slark)]

Hi everyone,
I have a flow that controls my living room lamps by lux and motion during daylight hours and then a timer once the sun sets. My Wife Acceptance Rate has dropped lately as the lights and turning on and off too many times during the day for her liking.

I need a new conditional delay node triggered by the light turn-off automation, so that if the lux increases past the threshold but immediately decreases we don’t have a dip to black. Here’s where I would need it in the flow.

I think I would need to write a function that has a gate that closes for x seconds when triggered by the turn-off node.

Here’s the entire flow as well:

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Thanks!

[bastero (Juan Carlos)]

@thefjordkeeper

I have a flow that controls my living room lamps by lux and motion during daylight hours and then a timer once the sun sets. My Wife Acceptance Rate has dropped lately as the lights and turning on and off too many times during the day for her liking.

I need a new conditional delay node triggered by the light turn-off automation, so that if the lux increases past the threshold but immediately decreases we don’t have a dip to black. Here’s where I would need it in the flow.

I think I would need to write a function that has a gate that closes for x seconds when triggered by the turn-off node.

Here’s the entire flow as well:

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It sounds like you want to add a delay node to your flow so that the lights don’t turn on and off too quickly.

To do this, you can add a delay node after the “light turn-off” node in your flow. The delay node will wait for a certain amount of time before passing on the signal to the next node in the flow, which will prevent the lights from turning on and off too quickly.

To add a delay node, first click on the “+” button in the upper right corner of the Node-RED editor and search for “delay” in the search bar. Select the “delay” node from the list of nodes and drag it into your flow.

Then, connect the output of the “light turn-off” node to the input of the delay node, and connect the output of the delay node to the input of the next node in the flow.

To set the delay time, double-click on the delay node to open its configuration window. In the “Delay” field, enter the amount of time you want the delay node to wait before passing on the signal. For example, if you want the delay to be 3 seconds, you would enter “3000” in the “Delay” field.

After you have configured the delay node, you can deploy your flow and test it to see if it works as expected. If you find that the delay is too long or too short, you can always adjust the delay time and deploy the flow again to test it.