Hi,
im using NodeRed for a year now and recently bought some new sensors and now im overhauling all my automations.
Then I stumbled again over some simple boolean/ logic gate issues and while I found some custom components and I can work around that by e.g. using conditional logic sometimes, it feels a bit to complicated.
So I wonder how would someone do that with just standard nodes.
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First of all: without bigtimer or a custom time range switch I feel a “if between time x and y” node would be rather useful in the standard HA nodes.
But mainly the other thing that gives me a hiccup is that the events:state node doesnt have an input and while I could solve this particular case with conditionally setting bigtimer node after the events:state framing this automation as a logic gate seems more intuitive to me. Especially if you were to build in more than two inputs for the “gate descision” lining the triggers up after each other will be problematic.
Or what if I had two different input.bools that im checking with an events state node and I needed both of them to trigger an automation.
Basically what would be the simplest approach in node red to do stuff like that?
if youre want to some cool formular magic for a custom report/dashboard I feel the natural order wourld be to look first for build in excel formular before programming a macro and getting some add on