OK so a couple of things here - most people will not have the Home Assistant nodes installed (i think i am one of the few on here that do) so you are better off asking questions in the Node Red subforum of the HA forums. (Not because we are rude but because most people do not want to pollute their systems with all the HA nodes and the baggage that they bring.)
How long is the proposed check time for turning on and off (whatever it is you are controlling)
Usually to do this i would use a trigger node with a timeout - so lets say you want to (on motion) have a light turn on for 5 minutes - you would feed the change state node from HA into a trigger node - with a 5 minute timeout - when receiving the first motion change the trigger node would send an ON packet, - and every time new motion was detected it would send another on and reset its 5 minute counter
At the end of 5 minutes if it did not receive any mesages it would then send and OFF message to the light controller.
You need to be careful of loop nodes and race style conditions in a single threaded visual programming environment.
Here is an example of my setup use NR nodes only
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Note that i use the Enhanced Trigger and Within time nodes from time inject · rdmtc/node-red-contrib-sun-position Wiki · GitHub
This flow sets the light on at 10 minutes to sunset each night and then turns it off at 10PM - after 10PM if it recevies any input from the motion sensor it tunrs the lights on again for another 5 minutes (depending on the mode they are runnign in)
Craig
