Event-triggered flow to switch on/off rf-plug

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Absolute newbie in terms of nodered and hass needs a little help...^^

I managed to turn on/off almost with 2 nodes:

  1. inject node with msg.payload like "#123456"
  2. mqtt-out node with topic "cmnd/tasmota/rfbridge/RfCode"

Now i need to exchange inject node with...? I guess, event node, but i don`t know how ...

Thanx in advance!
Klaus

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Welcome to the forum Klaus.

You haven't told us how you want to trigger it. User input, some other device? ...

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sry, sure. By motion sensor.

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How does that motion sensor talk ? mqtt ? rfbridge ? zigbee ?

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zigbee - zigbee2mwtt - mqtt. Integration in hass is fine

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If you add an MQTT in node and set the topic to match what the PIR is using, then attach this to a debug node you will be able to see the messages that come in when the PIR is activated.

Once you know that you can progress furthur - Share here what you see in the debug output.

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thank you so far. Gonna have a try... ^^

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Keep in mind that most people on this forum don't use home assistant (they let node-red do everything instead). With a mqtt node connecting to the broker directly and listening on the zigbee2mqtt topic will work (I use it myself in the same manner).

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Yup, me too.

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Please don't forget my knowledge with Node-Red. It does not exist or hardly exists. HOW? Which node do you use for PIR? And where can i adjust the payload?

Found a solution by trying...^^

Starting with event state node. Changed nothing but choosing PIR entity, "If state = on", state type string

My solution between that and mqtt-out node is change node. (exactly i was looking for). Can set my msg.payload there. Of course 2 of them, on/off.

Thank you anyway.

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