NodeRed check for timeouts on ESPHome messages? (ESPhome watchdog)

[mmakaay (Maurice Makaay)]

I would follow a route where you check the age of the last update. This might provide some useful hints:

Sensor - last updated monitor

I’ve read a number of people’s solutions for monitoring when a sensor stops updating to alert me and I wasn’t quite satisfied with any of them. Many used an automation template to compare the ‘time’ or ‘date_time’ to the desired sensor ‘last_updated’, however this seems like it would require a large number of automation to keep track of so I can be notified WHICH sensor to check. I think I’ve come up with an elegant way to do this which gives me lots of flexibility. If I set MQTT to force_upd…