# Disable a node from another node
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/disable-a-node-from-another-node/88240
**Category:** General
**Created:** [24 May 2024 16:14 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/disable-a-node-from-another-node/88240 "2024-05-24T16:14:50Z")
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### Author:  [@Veuchez](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Veuchez)
#### Post date: [24 May 2024 16:14 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/disable-a-node-from-another-node/88240/1 "2024-05-24T16:14:50Z")
Hi everyone,
Is it possible to temporarily disable a node from another node?
Thank you!
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### Author:  [@jbudd](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/jbudd)
#### Post date: [24 May 2024 16:18 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/disable-a-node-from-another-node/88240/2 "2024-05-24T16:18:28Z")
Can you explain why you want to do that?
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### Author:  [@Veuchez](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Veuchez)
#### Post date: [24 May 2024 16:24 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/disable-a-node-from-another-node/88240/3 "2024-05-24T16:24:29Z")
Because I read the status of a device and based on the status I modify a home assistant switch. if the state is different from the switch, the switch changes.
However, I also set a flow that when the home assistant switch changes state, an API call starts. these two things overlap in some cases and an API call is made for nothing.
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### Author:  [@jbudd](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/jbudd)
#### Post date: [24 May 2024 16:36 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/disable-a-node-from-another-node/88240/4 "2024-05-24T16:36:28Z")
OK I can't envisage that because I don't use Home Assistant so don't know what a HA switch is.
I don't know a way to disable a node without a deploy but there are various ways to block the messages emitted by a node - with a contrib gate node such as node-red-contrib-queue-gate, node-red-contrib-simple-gate, node-red-contrib-semaphore, or even with a switch node and global or flow context variable.
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### Author:  [@smanjunath211](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/smanjunath211)
#### Post date: [25 May 2024 01:43 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/disable-a-node-from-another-node/88240/5 "2024-05-25T01:43:42Z")
```auto
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```
as @jbudd suggests, a simple gate should stop the message flow to a particular node.
```auto
node-red-contrib-simple-gate
```
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### Author:  [@Veuchez](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Veuchez)
#### Post date: [27 May 2024 06:20 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/disable-a-node-from-another-node/88240/6 "2024-05-27T06:20:26Z")
A thousand thanks @jbudd e @smanjunath211 !
Simple-gate was what I needed!
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### Author:  [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)
#### Post date: [28 May 2024 10:29 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/disable-a-node-from-another-node/88240/8 "2024-05-28T10:29:26Z")
That refers to nodes in Kubernetes clusters. We are talking about nodes in a node red flow here. Not the same thing at all.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [26 August 2024 10:29 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/disable-a-node-from-another-node/88240/9 "2024-08-26T10:29:44Z")
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