Stopping flow help - still can't crack it

lkeays · July 11, 2022, 9:57am

Hi, I’ve really been searching a lot and I can’t figure it out.

My old analog airco is automated with infrared device, and I get its status with a light sensor glue in front of the “on off” light. That works… most of the time.

So I need a babysitter that will resend the infrared call if it hasn’t started.

But if I click manually again to “switch it off” - I need the babysitter to stop its previous task. I can’t figure out how to switch this. Hope I make sense?

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WallyR · July 11, 2022, 10:24am

The one node where you can actually react in its processing time is the delay node, so it is that one you have to look at.

I would probably replace it with a join node with a fixed timeout of your 60 seconds.
You can then add multiple inputs to it and have a node after that will handle the inputs and check if there is a break message among them collected inputs.

WallyR · July 11, 2022, 10:46am

I do not have all of your nodes installed, so I have just provided a proof of concept here.

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Its set to interrupt the wait if a extra command arrives, but if you do not want that, then just increase the “After a number of message parts” setting to an insane amount, like 1000.

lkeays · July 12, 2022, 8:45am

Brilliant people are cool. Thanks - this works perfectly. I tested it a bit further with 2 inject nodes that would replicate the input from the switch and a split node at the end to trigger different actions.

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lkeays · July 12, 2022, 9:03am

I spoke too soon… It works as intended, but it doesn’t solve my problem.

The switch can be either:

Turn on by an action (button, etc)
Have its status reset by a python script based on the satus of a sensor (is the power on the device on).

This works. It makes sure tyhat the switch status is always in sync with reality - and the python script, in home assistant, doesn’t trigger an action. But it does in Node-red…

The flow above turns into an eternel loop. (The switch gets set to “off” by the python script which triggers your flow - while it shoudn’t - only be trigger when “not by the python script”…

WallyR · July 12, 2022, 10:41am

So you need a helper to detect the python script action.
Set a helper up in HA and set the helper to true when the python script runs.
Test as first thing after the trigger in your flow if the helper is true.
If it is then set it to false and nothing more.
If it is not, then run the normal flow.

lkeays · July 12, 2022, 10:43am

… this is what I just finished figuring out

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In other words, I only want the “babysitter” to get trigger if the switch change has a different state that the python script update. This seems to work now. Thanks!

WallyR · July 12, 2022, 12:50pm

Perfect!