Report date and time of NODE-RED flow in Home Assistant

Third party integrations Node-RED
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You can create a sensor to read the data.

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sensor:

  - platform: template
    sensors:
      test:
        value_template: "{{ states('input_text.beregening_text') }}"
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Hi Sender, I hereby send you the flow which is working now.

[{"id":"6aa7f865.adda18","type":"api-call-service","z":"d571caff.44b17","name":"Date & Time","server":"ab0c7805.ea8858","version":1,"debugenabled":false,"service_domain":"input_text","service":"set_value","entityId":"input_text.beregening_text","data":"{\"value\":\"{{time}}\"}","dataType":"json","mergecontext":"","output_location":"","output_location_type":"none","mustacheAltTags":false,"x":490,"y":300,"wires":[[]]},{"id":"ab0c7805.ea8858","type":"server","z":"","name":"Home Assistant","addon":true}]

Good luck!

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Thanks Hellis81 for your help! It is working now! One small question left: what is the purpose of the leading zero in the date and time in the function above?

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Great!

Well… Now there is not much need for it.
In the past when you add it to a datetime I believe it’s needed because the datetime format is rather strict.
But now that you have it in a text then it makes no difference.
Change it to how you want, the input_text will accept it.

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Thank you.

One more question. This is the node red part… is there anything specific needed in hass? Entity creation or the node-red integration?

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Please see my post from yesterday. That post contains also the code which need to be added in configuration.yaml. No other changes are required.