# Can you cancel a trigger node?
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/can-you-cancel-a-trigger-node/712
**Category:** General
**Created:** [9 June 2018 12:44 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/can-you-cancel-a-trigger-node/712 "2018-06-09T12:44:36Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@fahrvergnuugen](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/fahrvergnuugen)
#### Post date: [9 June 2018 12:44 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/can-you-cancel-a-trigger-node/712/1 "2018-06-09T12:44:36Z")
I’m using a trigger node as a timer for my basement lights so that they automatically shut off after X minutes. I have three inputs which trigger the lights to turn on (two light switches and a motion detector). If any of the inputs fires, the trigger timer resets - this effectively allows occupancy detection because the motion detector will keep reseting the X minute timer as long as it detects something.
Now I want to make it possible to disable the trigger by double tapping one of the light switches on.
In order to do so, first I need to detect a double tap of the switch (the switches are sending MQTT messages into node-red).
Then I have to be able to disable the trigger which has already begun counting down from the first on command.
Is this doable with the builtin nodes? Or do I need to write my own function?
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### Author:  [@ukmoose](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/ukmoose)
#### Post date: [9 June 2018 12:47 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/can-you-cancel-a-trigger-node/712/2 "2018-06-09T12:47:39Z")
From the Trigger nodes Info panel
> reset
> If a message is received with this property, any timeout or repeat currently in progress will be cleared and no message triggered.
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### Author:  [@fahrvergnuugen](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/fahrvergnuugen)
#### Post date: [9 June 2018 13:03 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/can-you-cancel-a-trigger-node/712/3 "2018-06-09T13:03:56Z")
Maybe I’m not using the reset correctly - when I send a reset to it, the count down timer just resets. It still fires after the timeout. (that’s actually what I expected reset to do)
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### Author:  [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)
#### Post date: [9 June 2018 13:39 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/can-you-cancel-a-trigger-node/712/4 "2018-06-09T13:39:51Z")
Can you feed your reset message into a debug node and paste the result here so we can see what you are sending.
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### Author:  [@davidcgu](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/davidcgu)
#### Post date: [9 June 2018 14:07 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/can-you-cancel-a-trigger-node/712/5 "2018-06-09T14:07:46Z")
Take a look on this, is really great for the lights:
> **[node-red-contrib-smartswitch](https://flows.nodered.org/node/node-red-contrib-smartswitch)**
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> A smartswitch node for node-red
As note can handle at once on/off and timer triggers
Regarding the trigger node I was looking for one where the time can be set by a msg in order to have some flexibility, instead of fixed time, I know there is bigtimes, but wordering if there is soemthing much simple.
Regards
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### Author:  [@fahrvergnuugen](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/fahrvergnuugen)
#### Post date: [9 June 2018 14:44 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/can-you-cancel-a-trigger-node/712/6 "2018-06-09T14:44:08Z")
@Colin @ukmoose - You were right. The reset does cancel the trigger - not reset the timer as I thought. I just had the wrong property set and also had a misunderstanding of what the intended behavior was.
Thank you!