Hi,
i have just started exploring possibilites of node red.
I’m using node red addon version 3.1.1 in hassio 0.92
I would like to turn my water heater off in the evening, but only if it’s not heating water, then wait for some time and finally shut down the power socket. Turn it on again in the morning.
I have this flow
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But it was sitting there for an hour, waiting for timeout.
I guess, problem is, that value from sensor is of type text, not number?
I changed my flow, so it’s converted to number and stored to flow variable.
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This works ok, but i would like to use first version, if possible.
Is the first flow correct and problem is only in text versus number value?
Thanks,
Libor
