Hello. I just recently migrated to HA from Hubitat. So far things have been great. I have HA running via proxmox and use it primarily for state/pairing etc. For automation engine, using a dedicated node red instance running on another vm so not the built in one although I don’t believe it actually matters much. That said, I have been slowly bringing in my Hubitat automations into Node Red and feel like I am hitting a wall on this particular one.
In Hubitat, I have a virtual switch called cleaning mode which I flip every two wks when my cleaning people arrive. This then triggers a rule that will turn on all lights, open all blinds, send roomba home if its out, turn off all fans, play music on all sonos rooms, make an announcement on alexa for people to not turn on or off any physical switches along with a host of other actions and then it will finally pause all other rules from running. Of course the inverse happens when they leave and I flip off the cleaning mode switch. While I have roughly 250 devices, I am not terribly concerned with the turn on/off stuff however, as I have started building out my Node Red, I have started to break things up by room along with a couple additional tabs for music, system, misc, scratch pad etc. My concern revolves around the last part of the action list mentioned above. The pause all rules and subsequent resume all rules aspect of things.
In all the googling it doesn’t seem like there is a simple way for me to create a cleaning mode input boolean in HA, flip it on and then have all of my node red flows disabled ? I have red about the gate but that entails manually editing each sequence to include that as would also be the case with a current state node. If thats the only solution, I could build it in to each on/off sequence but feel like I am just missing something given how powerful HA and NR are traditionally.
What I would much rather do is just disable all flows entirely as they would be tied to each room/whole house automation. So essentially make my house dumb which is ironically what the hubitat rule is named. I am fairly new to HA and NR so apologies if this is a trivial question but in searching, haven’t been able to find much. Any input is greatly appreciated. Thanks !
