Dashboard adjustable timer

Dashboard
1

I'm looking to making an adjustable timer for a sprinkling system. I'm very new to coding and have found a forum post with a code that looks like it is exactly what i want but just cant get it to work.
I believe i have everything where they should be and have the numerical topic set to "value" and the button topic "start". I'm sure I'm missing something I just don't know what.

Here is the code:

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2

take a look on this https://flows.nodered.org/node/node-red-contrib-smartswitch

If you look on the flows on the forum u will find a lot of sprinkling projects already too.

Regards

3

Please edit your post to create a “code block” around that flow text – just put a single line with 3 backticks like ``` before and after the json text. Without that, we are not able to copy/paste your flow, since discourse modifies the double guotes to be “smart” (sic) quotes…

4

I’m a big fan of the Big Timer node that I use in a heater control. While the UI appears intimidating, it basically works by sending the target time in seconds to the input:

Function node:
//This sets the timer to 20 minutes
//Payload is in seconds
msg.payload = “timer 1200”;
return msg;

5

It seems @River tries to implement what's implemented here: