Fill in the “for” conditional with the amount of time.
Hmmm…still don’t get it…
if the entity is >0 for X minutes…it will always be…
The sensors sends a payload about every 5th minute. One way communication.
What I think I would like to do to be sure sensors are still updating is to check a few times a day (maybe 4-6 times) if the sensor value is the same as last time.
Fridges and freezers fluctuate a bit in temperature, so the risk/chance that the value is exact the same if I check twice or a few times in a row is not so likely:
Idealy I would like to see if the last three-four values is identically and then trigger a notification…
Not if the state goes back to zero before the time limit (for) expires. Therefore, if your temp is the same for x minutes (not fluctuating), then you have a problem?
Tried to set it up like this
with a test sensor that I modify the value of
And on first deply I got a message and timer started.
I left it for one minute and got a second message - so far so good
Then I continuously changed the sensor value for 3 minutes and got not messages - still good
After that I just left it for a couple of minutes and expected a message after 1 min, but nothing came through…
Edit/add: Tried to uncheck the “current state equals previous state”, but it didn’t made any difference
Unfortunately state doesn’t go to zero if sensor stops sending. It just stops sending. They are pretty stupid…
Ok, sorry I misunderstood. This is probably the solution; where you are not getting a state change for x amount of time:
should I use an “Event: state” node to capture the sensor every X hour (1 min for testing) and pass sensor payload:
and not ignore if state is not changed
into a function node with that code
var lastChange = new Date(msg.data.old_state.last_changed).getTime();
var now = new Date().getTime();
var secs = Math.floor((now / 1000)-(lastChange / 1000));
msg.sensor = {};
msg.sensor.lastChange = secs;
msg.delay = Math.floor(secs/3) * 1000;
if (msg.delay < 60000) { msg.delay = 60000; }
else if (msg.delay > 900000) { msg.delay = 900000; }
return msg;
might be a bit on they way…but I’m not just a beginner on HA and NR…I’m not that experienced in codeing either…but eager to learn 
There are a few different time settning and I don’t really understand…and according to the description it does not really do what I’m after…
Doing some more searching I found this:
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Maybe you could put a delay node on the start of your flow.
The delay node can be set to hold back the message output until the timer in its setting runs out, but with a reset each time a new message arrive.
This way the messages should be blocked in the delay node until no updates is received and the delay node then release its message.
How do you mean? Start with a delay node, without anything going into it?
Use “Override delay with msg.delay” in some way?
What after the delay node? A current state node? But how to feed anything in to the delay node then?
I think something in your description sounds reasonable…but I don’t understand how to do…
A lot of code…a little bit too much for me…not really know where to start to understand. Want a lot, but feels like a long way to go to learn, but I must start somewhere…but from what I understand most of this is regarding binary sensors. Can it be applied to a thermometer as well?
Late here now…trying to get some time to read it again and try again tomorrow
I agree with WallyR. all presented solutions so far are over-engineered while what you want can be achieved without anything special but built-in delay node which will measure the time for you and publish message when time exceeds
use output of Events:state node to feed a Delay node. in between of them you have to set the message properly in order to reset the delay node.(use change node to add ‘reset’ property to the message)
This way every incoming message will reset the Delay node starting measuring time from the beginning ). If message will not come within specified time, delay node will publish the last stored message. Use it to trigger notification (the message contains all you need, the last value, name of entity etc)
you may set state node to not publish message if previews and new states are equal. But tbh I think getting the same values proves your device is working. So I wouldn’t include that condition
I think the second link I provided is a simple solution that requires no code (just a polling node). I tested it with one of my temperature sensors and it works as expected.
Entities have a timeSinceChangedMs attribute measured in milliseconds. If that value is greater than 86400000 (24 hours) the state has not changed in 24 hours.
So, you can poll timeSinceChangedMs at some interval (60 seconds or whatever) and check to see if that value is greater than the time you want (not changed in 24 hours = true?).
A working example. Modify the Entity Id, Update Interval, and milliseconds (If State) for your environment. You can replace the debug 1 node with your notification.
[{"id":"bddbd75a.af7608","type":"poll-state","z":"8b43de8505f17be7","name":"","server":"f3f422ce.9f2a6","version":2,"exposeToHomeAssistant":false,"haConfig":[{"property":"name","value":""},{"property":"icon","value":""}],"updateinterval":"10","updateIntervalType":"num","updateIntervalUnits":"seconds","outputinitially":false,"outputonchanged":false,"entity_id":"sensor.basement_flood_temperature","state_type":"str","halt_if":"$entity().timeSinceChangedMs > 86400000","halt_if_type":"jsonata","halt_if_compare":"jsonata","outputs":2,"x":700,"y":300,"wires":[["1df3de1bd2af0c7b"],["69fcee022f51c44b"]]},{"id":"1df3de1bd2af0c7b","type":"debug","z":"8b43de8505f17be7","name":"debug 1","active":true,"tosidebar":true,"console":false,"tostatus":false,"complete":"false","statusVal":"","statusType":"auto","x":1000,"y":280,"wires":[]},{"id":"69fcee022f51c44b","type":"debug","z":"8b43de8505f17be7","name":"debug 2","active":true,"tosidebar":true,"console":false,"tostatus":false,"complete":"false","statusVal":"","statusType":"auto","x":1000,"y":340,"wires":[]},{"id":"f3f422ce.9f2a6","type":"server","name":"Home Assistant","version":5,"addon":true,"rejectUnauthorizedCerts":true,"ha_boolean":"y|yes|true|on|home|open","connectionDelay":true,"cacheJson":true,"heartbeat":false,"heartbeatInterval":30,"areaSelector":"friendlyName","deviceSelector":"friendlyName","entitySelector":"friendlyName","statusSeparator":"at: ","statusYear":"hidden","statusMonth":"short","statusDay":"numeric","statusHourCycle":"h23","statusTimeFormat":"h:m","enableGlobalContextStore":true}]
I tried this and swapped entity id for one of my sensors:
But it looks like it’s not sending the timeSinceChangedMs message
Those sensors are pretty simple and stupid. It looks like poll state only reads last value from the database.
Maybe this only works for smarter sensors? What kind of sensor did you try on?
Big thanks for all effort trying to help!
maybe OT, but I saw now that after every deply I get a warning I have unconfigured nodes and it looks to be Home Assistant it warns about…
Something to bother about or can I do something about it
Edit:
Some googling and I think it was another Home Assistant Server node was inserted with the import of the poll state code…deleted now and back to normal
Hmmm…tried a bit
It works to have the Event:state node to send out every message that comes from the detector.
Then I configured the output it like this:
Added reset as output in the event:state node (isn’t that what a change node would do?)
But on every message where the delay node is reset, the message is discarded, so there is no message left to send if time runs out…?
You have probably imported some nodes at a time and a server config node was included.
It does not mean much here, because the number is 0, so no other nodes need it and you can then just doubleclick on it and choose delete.
Yes - I realized that and deleted. Probelem solved
I have tested a bit…and could not get it working that way as if I included reset into the Event:State message it just deleted it.
But when I did like this it looks to work (with a test sensor I can control):
The first Event:State node sends the event state (and some other info) into the delay node
The second Event:State node sends msg.reset (set to “reset”, but could be anyting)
Then reset node holds the message with the entity state and on every consecutive state that comes it also comes a reset deleting the former one…(?)
Need to test a bit more, but looks promising
Edit/Add:
It works!
Now I have also managed to pass working information to Notification and Email nodes!
Next step is to figure out how much of the code I need to duplicate to supervise several sensors!
So fun to learn.
Thanks for helping!!!
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That’s correct - timeSinceChangedMs is the last time the database recorded data from the sensor. So, if the database has not recorded data from the sensor for x milliseconds… we have not heard from that sensor for x milliseconds
It’s not suppose to send that message. node: debug 2 is showing the output for when the If State condition is FALSE (we have data from the sensor that is less than x milliseconds). It’s working as intended.