Hey there,
I just started learning NodeRed after 1 year of using HA. I moved my automations over to Node Red and exploring the possibilities.
I have this motion sensor flow that lights the room after sunset with movement. The MQTT PIR sensor is configured in HA.
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I am trying to shift to MQTT in NodeRed for its advantages and to have HA as state machine only.
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I can receive the RF code and i break it in the JSON as object.
{"Time":"2020-05-09T21:44:19","RfReceived":{"Sync":12510,"Low":450,"High":1230,"Data":"EF7E5E","RfKey":"None"}}
From there on, i can’t figure out how to proceed. In HA, we had the on code and a false off code since its a PIR one code sensor. Also, how to let HA knows of the state?
my HA config:
# MQTT Binary Sensors
binary_sensor:
- platform: mqtt
state_topic: "tele/sonoff-BR/RESULT"
name: 'Living Room Motion'
value_template: '{{value_json.RfReceived.Data}}'
payload_on: 'EF7E5E'
payload_off: 'EF7E5Eoff'
device_class: motion
# optimistic: false
qos: 1
# retain: false
off_delay: 5
