As stated in the title I am detected an input on an ESP 32 device, it sometimes becomes unavailable for a few seconds (thats another issue). It does not trigger an event in HA but I have just added Node-Red to get an Alexa announcement and this gets triggered when my ESP is unavailable.
Is there a simple way around this, i.e. can I check for Availability. I am using “If State is True” as my Node-Red trigger
Regards Dave
Can you post you flow
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As you can see the Binary Alarm set went off line for < 1Min and Node-Red was triggered but my HA routine was not.
Use a switch node to stop all messages other than on or off
Hi, Thanks
I used a string output from the Events :State and the used “on” and “off” in the newly added switch node.
I could therefore add a 3rd output for “unavailable” which could notify me if a device goes off line.
Many thanks for your help.
Regards Dave