Day/Night Device Duty Cycle

General
1

Hi there, I've got Node Red running on a Raspi 3B+ and a couple ESP8266s connected to the network. I'm using these ESP8266 to turn ON and OFF devices via MQTT. I'm pretty new to Node Red and I am struggling to achieve this:

Daytime Duty Cycle :
-Turn ON a device for 15 min then OFF for 15 min. (Repeat from 6 AM to 6 PM).

Nighttime Duty Cycle:
-Turn ON a device for 15 min then OFF for 1 Hour and 45 min. (Repeat from 6 PM to 6 AM).

I am using a Big Timer node each 2 hours of "night interval" (as shown in the image) but when it comes to the short 15 min ON/15 min OFF times I need a LOT of nodes. Is there a more efficient node configuration? Any Ideas?

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2

Maybe look to use trigger nodes set to repeat, and trigger them once at 6am and 6pm and reset the other at the same time

3

Solved the Daytime cycle with good old Astable NE555. Now I gonna try to solve the night cycle (15min ON / 1 hour 45 min OFF) cycle with a combination of Big Timer and Trigger nodes. Let's see what happens.

4

I agree with @dceejay's suggestion about trigger nodes.

Here is a flow which may help you with ideas.

The two inject nodes are one output from bigtimer node.

the two debug nodes could be the same also.

I just used separate ones to help you see what is happening.

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Thank you! Your flow really helped me to understand the usage of these nodes! Now I'm playing with it, gonna do some tests. I'll let you know if it can get the job done.

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This can be achieved by 1 node
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Let me simplify...
Daytime Duty Cycle :

  • Turn ON a device for 15 min then OFF for 15 min. (Repeat from 6 AM to 6 PM).

is the same as

  • Send ON every 30 mins starting at 0 mins past the hour between 6am and 6pm
  • Send OFF every 30 mins starting at 15 mins past the hour between 6am and 6pm

Nighttime Duty Cycle:

  • Turn ON a device for 15 min then OFF for 1 Hour and 45 min. (Repeat from 6 PM to 6 AM).

is the same as

  • Send ON every 120 mins starting at 0 mins past the hour between 6pm and 6am
  • Send OFF every 120 mins starting at 15 mins past the hour between 6pm and 6am

ILO4BAXNZH
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NOTE: This uses node-red-contrib-cron-plus

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Yes, that is nice, but how does it deal with the dynamic sunrise and sunset times?

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It's difficult to synchronize Big Timer with other nodes. Non-dynamic timings should work, though it will require adjustment every now and then when dawn/dusk hour change. The final goal is to make a variable Duty Cycle Timer that can be synchronized with Big Timer. This project has a lot of potential and I think it has a LOT of applications, from Industrial IoT to Home Automation. I will test both flows and see what happens. Thank you all for your replies.

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I didn't see a request to handle dynamic sunrise/sunset times.

The op said

Daytime Duty Cycle :
-Turn ON a device for 15 min then OFF for 15 min. (Repeat from 6 AM to 6 PM).

Nighttime Duty Cycle:
-Turn ON a device for 15 min then OFF for 1 Hour and 45 min. (Repeat from 6 PM to 6 AM).

And that's what I offered. Nothing more, nothing less.

Ps, in the git repo version (to be published soon) sunrise and sunset capabilities have been added.

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Sincerest apologies.

You are right.

I am stuck with sunrise/set times and it just translated to this thread because I saw day and night mentioned.

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Got a question Steve, on your night schedule, although it is set to send every 120mins, it sends a "on message" every hour. I'm having trouble finding what is causing this. Any ideas?

nightschedule

I'm getting these debug messages right now:

debug

Would you mind explaining expression format? So I can tweak some of the values?.
Thank you for your time.

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My apologies - i was wrong, the cron describer (in the tooltip) shouldn't parse that expression as the m (2nd element) is limited to 0-59 as can be see in the info panel on the side bar...

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I'll look at that and update the node soon.

In the mean time, use the following expressions...
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