Hi, I have a simple flow which turns on and off a light.(I have also integrated it with alexa so i can ask alexa to turn the light on and off). I'm trying to find a way that i can have a range of 4 switches that can turn the light on for preset amount of time. Each switch can be set to 30 minute int…

sw1 = turn on light = delay(30 minutes) => turn light off sw2 = turn on light = delay(60 minutes) => turn light off sw3 = turn on light = delay(90 minutes) => turn light off

Or possibly simpler use the Trigger node to send the On message then later the off. One issue to watch out for though in both the above solutions is what happens if you you press another button before the first on/off action has completed. With the Trigger node you can arrange for each button to al…

Hi guys, thanks for your excellent replies. Got it working using the trigger node. 4 toggles with 30 minute intervals. Is there a way that the toggle switch reverts back to off after the period has timed out. Although the light will go out, the toggle switch in the UI still shows it as being on. Als…

You can feed the Trigger output back to the switch, with a change node if necessary, to set the switch to the appropriate state. Might also need a (non dashboard) Switch node to only feed the Off state back.

[image] Thewaver: Also, would be nice if there was a countdown timer visible in the UI with time remaining until the light goes off. take a look at node-red-contrib-mytimeout that you could feed to a change node to change the time to hh:mm format then to a ui_text node. You could also send it…

Delay timer for switch

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zenofmud 9 September 2019 16:25 6

take a look at node-red-contrib-mytimeout that you could feed to a change node to change the time to hh:mm format then to a ui_text node. You could also send it to a ui_guage in donut mode to have a visual countdown. That is what I juse in my Coffee Pot Timer project

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Delay timer for switch

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