For the past 20 years I've used a GJD lighting controller which switches on security/garden lighting if the GJD PIR's are activated. But with the addition of a shelly UNI , I'm bringing this up to date, so that I can have more control. The Shelly works great, and now I get MQTT data into node-RED wh…

[image] Steve-Mcl: do you want to share your progress As a basic framework, I was intending to inject (possibly by the ui) different scenarios as dynamic schedules, which would then stop/start an additional cron+ node that emits on or off every 30 seconds, which would then be passed to the ga…

[image] dynamicdave: Here's a view of the dashboard for my home lighting system Thanks Dave, I had not considered a FSM, and will have a good look this evening. (I've been told that I've got to paint a room today :cold_sweat:).

FSMs are a great way to deal with sequential events. Here's a pictorial view of the very simple state machine for my Home Lighting system. [FSM_house_lighting] S0 - system in 'automatic' mode S1 - system in 'manual' mode and all lights are OFF S2 - system in 'manual' mode and all lights are ON …

[image] Paul-Reed: The big flaw, is that if I change a dynamic schedule, there is no initial output, as the timed event may have occurred at an earlier time, and therefore the existing '30 second' output continues regardless You dont need the 30s pulse Paul. This might put you on the right t…

Hi I have been beta testing MSR you can get release 1.0 here it runs on any system that runs nodejs and you can link multiple HA controllers. so far Vera,ezlo,hubitat,home assistant and others. It is a logic engine for control of smart devices. and is very powerful. Take a look docs there is s…

Any chance you could share the FSM code Dave? My logic is similar to yours in that I separately track whether it is daylight or not (and I also track whether it is "sleep time" or not). However, I'll admit that some of the logic has gotten a bit arcane and could do with some simplification.

[image] TotallyInformation: I separately track whether it is daylight or not The flow I posted above does that part if you are interested.

Thanks Steve, I'm looking at that. But it was Dave's FSM that I was interested in because I'd like to learn more about them. :slight_smile: I keep track of the sun-rise/set using inject-enhanced. And keep track of the sun and moon positions using the sun-position nodes. These are written to MQTT e…

Here you go... [Screen Shot 09-11-21 at 12.33 PM] I wrote the code years ago, so could do with being updated (when I have some spare time). Basically I have three flow variables called 'state_register', 'mode' and 'all'. The 'state_register' can be S0, S1 or S2. 'mode' can be "automatic" or "m…

Thanks Dave, always good to look at other people's code :slight_smile: Part of the fun of doing this stuff is to learn new or improve old techniques.

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