Node-red-contrib-bigtimer offset not working

Hi,
with the node-red-contrib-bigtimer, if I set an "on offsset" = -7200, it does not work.
How can I tell big timer to start 2 hours before the sunset ?
The reason is that I have solar power to start the water pomp to water my plants with my own solar electricity.
Thanks for help.
Joel

Hi Jowa, welcome to the forum.

Pete who wrote node-red-bigtimer does not provide support here, nor is there a Github page for the node. You might get help at his blog tech.scargill.net.

Otherwise take a look at cron plus https://flows.nodered.org/node/node-red-contrib-cron-plus which might have the features you need.

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The offset is in minutes not seconds so use 120

Thanks @smcgann99. Indeed, by setting -120, the indicator has adapted by displaying the remaining time. I'll check tonight if it works as expected.
Otherwise, I'll use cron plus as suggested by @jbudd

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