Node Red Newbie: Help in picking up state of a boolean to disable the flow

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Created these light control flows, they work great However I have an boolean on my HA dashboard and I want to use this to control whether the flow is on or off.

I haven’t been able to find out much about how to do this without adding extra nodes or exposing a control to HA.

I want to use my boolean as its already controlling automations in HA.

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I managed to work this out, added the boolean as a state change node, added the Basic Gate node and this worked to open the gate, I used a change node to change the payload from open to close to save having a 2nd state change node.

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