Thanks again @WallyR
I’m learning a lot. Biggest thing I’ve learned is that Home Assistant is where I want my automations to stay… time based are just easier in there, and I have several other devices that need to change when these automations start, as well as my entire UI which is better controlled from Home Assistant.
To that end, I’ve successfully added a Node Red flow that updates the epoch time string into an input_datetime, which I’ll then run my automation off of. This works, but I would have to do each manually.
I have it set up to split the payload into X number of steps. My question is: can I use the Node Red call service with a variable target? As in, after my split, for each timestamp, update Step X where X is the step number from my array.
I don’t think it’s possibly, as I have to select the Home Assistant Entity from a dropdown, but I figured I would ask!
I’m sure there’s some way using the HA API in Node Red and not the Call Service, but that’s beyond me.