Hi, ive been diving into node red for my more advanced automations and I made something that I think could be done smoother and simpler.
I want the lights to turn off when I’m in bed (motion sensor) and my phone is charging.
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First I tried to build an AND gate, but I had to inject the motion sensor cue into the charging state, so I simplified it and put them one after the other.
The motion sensor is almost under the bed, so it tracks if I walk in front of the bed. I plug the phone in afterwards so the state check for charging get retriggered by the “msg-resend” (I tried first with a trigger node but could figure out how to reset after a few minutes in a smart way).
To save traffic, I limit the signal afterwards and then do a time check and the turn the lights off.
I haven’t extensively tested this, but it seems to work, but it doesn’t feel very elegant, and I wonder if I could do it only with no extra installed msg resend node.
I also have more workflows in mind that rely on input_booleans that get set by multiple sensors, that don’t depend on each other like in this example and I haven’t found a good way for these “AND gate” style setups.
Cheers.
