I got tired of dealing with August’s Auto-Unlock that doesn’t work half the time, so I figured I’d write my own unlock automation in Node-RED. This is my first attempt at using Node-RED, so I’d like some feedback on if this looks like the most efficient way that I could have scripted this. Are there any things I could do to simplify things, particularly the change node where I check the topic (“person.xxxxx”) and replace it with either mine or my wife’s name? I think it’d be better if it was generic to any person being sent to the node, but can’t figure out a way to extract the name and capitalize whatever the first letter is.
The input nodes on the left are strictly for testing purposes.
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