I’m trying to save states for my lights to create a scene using this example:
https://zachowj.github.io/node-red-contrib-home-assistant-websocket/cookbook/saving-and-restoring-states.html
I’ve tried using the scene approach and that does not work. I’ve also tried saving the state in the context, but that does not make any difference.
Flow that does work but the lights do not dim down using transition. The change is immediate. Notice that I set the transition duration in the transform data node
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If I do a simple flow like below the transition works as expected. Any ideas?
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Below is a good example of the issue.
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The transition works in the “Change entities” node, but after the delay and the scene is applied no transition is used. It resets to the correct state though.
If I fake the fade down before the split node the transition works. If I put the fake fade down after the split node the transition doesn’t work. Isn’t that weird?