Subflows for generic entites

jesseg · July 10, 2021, 12:01am

I hope that this is easy – I’m pretty new to this. I have a couple inner bulbs that don’t always turn on. I’m trying to create a loop that turns the bulbs on checks the state and continues until the bulb is on (I’m sure this is not best practice and can imagine an infinite loop – thoughts are welcome). I do this for all my Innr bulbs and thought that I could perhaps create a subflow. My problem: I don’t know how to pass the entity for each subflow and assign that entity to the service call. As an example I’d like to pass light.innr_attic_1 from the sequence calling the subflow; similarly, I would likely innr_attic_2, etc using the same subflow.

Any thoughts?

Mikefila · July 10, 2021, 1:32am

Use a loop timer node you can set how many times it retries. You can also stop it once the light is on or off

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jesseg · July 10, 2021, 1:13pm

Thanks. Any thoughts on how to pass an entity object to a sub flow?

Mikefila · July 11, 2021, 6:09pm

Well when you connect a debug node choose complete message object.

Now you can see everything in the message. Using a change node you can move, set, delete different parts of the message object.

tobi-bo · July 12, 2021, 1:54pm

Hi, you can find a solution in this post: