# Complete newbie, please help
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/complete-newbie-please-help/44902
**Category:** Developing Nodes
**Created:** [29 April 2021 01:48 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/complete-newbie-please-help/44902 "2021-04-29T01:48:41Z")
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### Author:  [@waynen1967](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/waynen1967)
#### Post date: [29 April 2021 01:48 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/complete-newbie-please-help/44902/1 "2021-04-29T01:48:41Z")
Hello, new to Home Assistant and Node Red, about a week in, attempting to make a flow that closes my garage door if all of us 3 people living here leave. I have started with an state node, and I see I can add conditions and outputs, and have done debugging and can see how I can add outputs and get locations to change which exit debug message fires. But I don't really understand the input, and i can't seem to get the bottom exit to do anything.
Can I just use one state node and have it only output if all three people are not home?
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### Author:  [@Steve-Mcl](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Steve-Mcl)
#### Post date: [29 April 2021 07:36 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/complete-newbie-please-help/44902/2 "2021-04-29T07:36:59Z")
> [@waynen1967](#):
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> But I don't really understand the input
And I suspect many folk here dont understand either I'm afraid. This looks to be quite a HA specific question so you might get more joy over at the HA forums.
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### Author:  [@waynen1967](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/waynen1967)
#### Post date: [29 April 2021 09:37 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/complete-newbie-please-help/44902/3 "2021-04-29T09:37:44Z")
See, I don't even know enough to ask question right lol.. Truthfully I didn't even know node red was for anything other than home assistant. My thinking was that in the case I showed, the output would only happen if all three people were, not home, seemed like a good place to ask but will try there also, thanks
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [28 June 2021 09:38 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/complete-newbie-please-help/44902/4 "2021-06-28T09:38:28Z")
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