Flow not working as expected

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hay there i trying to get this flow to work what i want is that at 9 a light turns on either green or purple depending on the days then after 1 houre it should turn blue but i cant get it to work

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To be able to read your flow, you might like to read How to post your flows. The Forum changes characters when code is 'just pasted' into a post and will not import for people to test or review.

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i did that but aperantly incorrect thanks dident notice

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There are also some nodes in the flow that are not recognised, or not available using 'Manage Palette'. Are you using HA or some other HEMS?

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im using the node red addon in HA i use light scheduler i think thats the only one that i installed myzelf

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in short what i want is that on certain days the light is either purple or green and a houre later it should be blue i want it to turn on at 9 and shut off at 22 i followed some instructions i found online but it dosent seem to work out for me

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It might be useful for you to watch the Videos on YouTube - Node Red Essentials. Time well invested to get a good basic understanding of Node RED.

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im gona do that thanks

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I think you use Home Assistant so I'm not sure if this approach is relevant for you, but here is how I would do it in Node-red.

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On the left is a Cron Plus node which injects either "green" or "purple" at 9pm.
It uses cron, a utility originally developed for regular event schedules in Unix.
Cron is notoriously cryptic but the node has an "easy expression builder" which simplifies it a bit.
You would need to install node-red-contrib-cron-plus to use this.

On the right a trigger node sends on the "green" or "purple" payload and 1 hour later sends "blue"

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okay cron seems to be working do i need to put this befor a call service im sorry if this is a dumb quistion im still watching Node-RED Essentials playlist

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It is not dumb to ask questions!

Unfortunately I don't know the answer.
My HomeAssistant knowledge can be summarised as

HomeAssistant? No thanks!

To expand on that a bit:

I can put Node-red on my Raspberry Pi and interface with all sorts of IOT devices, websites, databases etc and create a simple dashboard to present it all.

Or I can put an entire dedicated operating system on the Pi to do all that and still need to install Node-red when things get a bit tricky.

I really can't see the advantage. But there's lots of folk who love HomeAssistant so I'm probably just out of touch.

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this is my first time trying this all for keeps and everything i looked at was way to hard HA was about the only thing i could wrap my head around so im just gona try some stuff and see if it works

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this

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seems to be working thanks all

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If you are not already using HA then I suggest ditching it before you get too involved. It will be much harder to get out of HA later if you decide that using node red stand alone is better.