This may sound like a dumb question, but the docs don't answer this for me. I have two delay nodes, both set to a random delay of 7 ~ 27 minutes. When the flow runs and hits these, one has a blue square with the number 3 under it, the other has a blue square with a number 1 under it. What exactly…

3 means there are 3 queued (delayed) messages.

Interesting, I wouldn't actually expect to have any queued messages in this case, but ok. Is there a way to tell what the current random delay value is? In this example, is there a way to tell if the current delay is 7 minutes, 15 minutes, etc?

[image] tibmeister: Interesting, I wouldn't actually expect to have any queued messages in this case Having a random delay between 7~27 minutes - you should expect at the minimum, a 7 minute delayed/queued message. a delayed message, will also be in the count you see, until its time has elaps…

So I say I'm surprised that I see more than one message in the queue due to the way I have the flow setup, unless I fundamentally misunderstand how a loop node works. Below is a screenshot of the flow, and I only allow one message to get through from the BigTimer, then I block those messages after …

[image] tibmeister: So I say I'm surprised that I see more than one message in the queue due to the way I have the flow setup It is easy enough to check by adding a debug node on the input and output so you can track the messages.

[image] tibmeister: unless I fundamentally misunderstand how a loop node works It is very unusual to need a loop node, there are usually better ways of solving the problem.

These loops are most likely the culprit.

The OP has opened another thread on their basic loop problem [image] Fundamental misunderstanding of the loop node General 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…

Yeah, this one was going off topic so opened another thread on the different topic. I think I got the answer I was looking for originally. Thank you.

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The OP has opened another thread on their basic loop problem

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