Hi there, I'm picking up data from mqtt as the input node, triggering a delay and then setting the msg.payload to '0'. However i want to know what happens if the delay gets triggered twice, do the timers run concurrently? If the timers would run concurrently, is there a way to compound the by add…

I think maybe what you want is to use a Trigger node configured like this [image] That will start a timer when it gets a message. If nothing else happens then after five minutes it will send a message with payload 0. However if another message comes within five minutes then it will start the ti…

Colin 28 January 2021 17:14 2

Welcome to the forum @gazzat5.

That depends on what timer you are using. Please post here a bit of your flow so we can see what you are doing. Just the few relevant nodes.

See this post for how to share your flow here - How to share code or flow json

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Additive / compound delay

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