What’s the best flow?
Should be simple but I can’t make it work. My flow will not turn them on.
Sorry I am new to node red, for sure making dumb mistakes
Look for the ‘bigtimer’ node, under the advanced section in the left-hand panel.
It has built-ins for Sunrise & Sunset, and lots of other useful settings.
I’m just learning Node Red myself and as a simple first flow I built mine out like this
I turn my outside lights and living room lights on 20 mins after sunset then at sunrise I run through and check to see if they’re on. If they are turn them off.
Like @Bit-River said the Big Timer is what I’m using for this.
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Yes I am using bigtimer but is not firing up, must be something I am doing wrong
Thanks can you please paste the flow, mine is very similar but not working
Sure here it is
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Thanks i will check once on the pc
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yes it works well, I guess before I used bigtimer wrongly
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I still don t get it how it really works.
I do need a very simple command to turn off a switch at 23.59, what would be the correct way to use bigtimer?
I don’t think that big timer will let you get that precise with it. If you just need something to turn off at a specific time use an injent node and tell it to run at that time like this
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Set “Off” to 23:45 and the offset to +14.
Thanks i used this now
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I did that, but after clicking Deploy it turned off the switch … Still i am missing the logic
Glad to hear it 
How are you turning it on?
Also, untick “Output at Startup”.
If this doesn’t help, go to the Node Red forums and ask there- the author of BigTimer reads that forum.
That should help
There is a great node from Pete Scargill called BigTimer … this is working great and can be used for almost any time based flow.
Additionally, there is a small sunevent which is easy to use.
A good source to find flow samples is here
I can’t get it to work.
Changed my location and the “call service” with my own entity and nothing happens.
Very frustrating…
I’m using scenes for the garden lights. I got the message under the “call service” label “no connection at …”
I know this is an old post, but I’m running into the same issue. Bigtimer is set to fire an hour before sunset but it never fires. I have my lat/long there, selected sunset and offset -60 (for -60 minutes). Any ideas why?