My search fu is sadly lacking as I feel this must have been talked about many times before :frowning: How do I stop messages passing thru a flow overnight (9pm to 9am in my case)? I just want to make sure that no messages go to my Alexa speaking node overnight and wake anyone up!

If you just wanna do it quick n dirty, add a function node that checks the hour. If >= 21 or < 9, return null. Otherwise, return msg. Do you need the code? This should get you started... var d = new Date(); var hours = d.getHours(); if(hours < 9 || hours >= 21) return null; return msg; Futur…

[image] Steve-Mcl: var d = new Date(); var hours = d.getHours(); if(hours < 9 || hours >= 21) return null; return msg; That'll do nicely for tonight ta :slight_smile:

Or if you want it configurable use node-red-contrib-queue-gate to hold/release the flow and cron-plus or similar for the scheduling.

Ta for suggestion I thought - can I avoid another contrib node so I'm just using the inject node to inject open/close at specific times [image] [{"id":"bae8f4c.74ae908","type":"q-gate","z":"c37f6ae0.e9c5a8","name":"","controlTopic":"control","defaultState":"open","openCmd":"open","closeCmd":"clo…

Something like this: [{"id":"101620da.dd9def","type":"inject","z":"b9924a74.4d98f8","name":"Your message","topic":"","payload":"","payloadType":"date","repeat":"","crontab":"","once":false,"onceDelay":0.1,"x":250,"y":2630,"wires":[["7905085e.ed27d8"]]},{"id":"77c3a40d.cf1914","type":"inject","z":"b…

That has the disadvantage that it uses context, which is best avoided unless there is a positive advantage.

Yeah, but I just bashed that out. The node used in the post probably also uses context, but only in/on that node. Kinda same horse - different jockey. Hey, I was just spit balling.

How about this: [{"id":"101620da.dd9def","type":"inject","z":"b9924a74.4d98f8","name":"Your message","topic":"","payload":"","payloadType":"date","repeat":"","crontab":"","once":false,"onceDelay":0.1,"x":250,"y":2630,"wires":[["ab588538.5d8fc8"]]},{"id":"77c3a40d.cf1914","type":"inject","z":"b9924a…

You might want to do [reset, open] if you don't want queued messages to be actioned when you open it.

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or just use: gate which doesn't have queueing.

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