Pull down menu to select delay?

[spawnreaper]

I am very new at node-red, So I still have to learn a lot.
The topics that touch on the subject I don't really understand.

What I am trying to create:
First select time on a pull down menu on the dashboard with options to select from 1 to 10 hours value.
Push button to activate.
First select a time then push the button. the relay connected to the pi turns on.
Depending on the time selected, wait that amount of time, then turn the relay off.
(if possible a countdown on the dashboard, but less important)

Problem I am facing is that the time on a delay node seems to be fixed in the node. I dont know how to inject my selected time from the pull down menu. I also get the feeling I am missing some nodes to get this to work. Could someone help me out? A picture on how this is supposed to look like would be very helpful.
thank you

[zenofmud]

@spawnreaper

First select a time then push the button. the relay connected to the pi turns on.
Depending on the time selected, wait that amount of time, then turn the relay off.

Not good pratice to just power off a Pi, issue a 'sudo shutdown' (via an exec node), wait a minute, then shut off the relay.

@spawnreaper

Problem I am facing is that the time on a delay node seems to be fixed in the node. I dont know how to inject my selected time from the pull down menu.

have you checked ou the flow library to see if there is another node you could use?

[JGKK]

@zenofmud

Not good pratice to just power off a Pi, issue a 'sudo shutdown' (via an exec node), wait a minute, then shut off the relay.

I think there is a relay connected to the gpio and that gets turned on or off.

@spawnreaper

on a delay node seems to be fixed in the node.

You have to change the fixed delay setting to override with msg.delay in the delay nodes configuration. You can than change the delay by accompanying the input message with the amount of milliseconds it should be delayed in msg.delay.

You could also take a look at:

[ANNOUNCE] node-red-contrib-ui-countdown-timer-switch

Ui Countdown Timer Switch It's always nice to automate things but sometimes automation needs some flexibility that can be triggered manually. I've created a UI node that is basically a simple switch but displays the time it was activated and turns itself off after a certain amount of time (it also displays the end time). [cts-demo] What is it for? My personal use case was to activate an irrigation system outside of scheduled times, but you can obviously use it for basically everything. High…

or

[ANNOUNCE] node-red-contrib-ui-time-scheduler

Ui Time Scheduler Back in late 2018 I was looking for a simple time scheduler for the node-red dashboard that any person without any technical background (and without access to the node-red flow editor) could easily operate. I found many nodes that did a good job at the node-red flow editor, but I did not find any for the dashboard. I also did not want to use big “thrown together” flows that would require to import many different nodes every time; I needed a simple solution. Hence, I decided to…

alternatively if you want only core nodes I have a collection of subflows which can be used in the above way:

https://flows.nodered.org/collection/WPGDdOrt2Z-Z

Johannes

[spawnreaper]

O, sorry for not explaining clearly. The relay board is a 4 relay board that controles my doorbell, monitor power, fan power controle. (+ option to reset the pi power after i did a safe shutdown)

Main thing I am focusing on is to turn my doorbell off for x amount of time and then switching it back on.

[spawnreaper]

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so this is the mess I made so far.
i dont know how to change the output from the selection menu to output msg.delay instead of payload.

(to avoid confusion payload 1 turns the doorbell off and 0 turns it back on. the pi node is not connected because I am just testing)

[fellinga]

@spawnreaper

First select time on a pull down menu on the dashboard with options to select from 1 to 10 hours value.
Push button to activate.
First select a time then push the button. the relay connected to the pi turns on.
Depending on the time selected, wait that amount of time, then turn the relay off.
(if possible a countdown on the dashboard, but less important)

@JGKK mentioned this already above, but I just wanted to point out that this is, besides the push button, exactly what the countdown-timer-switch does. Do you need to activate the timer via a button?

[spawnreaper]

installed the node-red-contrib-ui-countdown-timer-switch. Yes a button to trigger after I selected the time would be nice.

[JGKK]

Here is a very minimal example using my timers subflow and a dashboard form should you feel adventurous and diy:

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You have to enter the time you want to turn of as hh:mm:ss so for 5 hours it would be 05:00.00.

[spawnreaper]

think its working like this now. It just activates when selecting a time.
Adding an activation button ill try and add later.
Thanks for helping to get this to work.

[fellinga]

Just released an update. With v1.2.0 you can activate the timer with an incoming payload, like this:

The flow:

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[spawnreaper]

Okey, it works but it does have a bug.
Ik I reload the page or open the page on another device the timer resets. and the relay turns off before it finishes its delay. Do I need something extra to prevent this?

[fellinga]

Yes it's a known bug but it was fixed in 1.1.2 - the current version is 1.2.0. What version of the countdown-timer-switch are you using?

[spawnreaper]

had an old version. Now updated to 1.2.0.
and it helped, thanks