Timer to start something after x seconds

[AlmostSerious (Marcus Peters)]

Hi, i am using the following to do what you want. But it uses a different logic:

Set up a variable timer in node red

Of course thats possible. As always, in node red there are probably a million and one ways of doing this. However, what I did was to create an input number slider helper and when it reaches 1 i trigger a 1min timer within nodered that then fires my switch. In a seperate flow, I am taking the value of the helper and after a minute i will set it to -1 of its previous value. With that, I always have a visual representation of how much time is still available on the timer, and you can always just…