# Single button, multiple press options (New thread see link in first post)

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/single-button-multiple-press-options-new-thread-see-link-in-first-post/20559>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [19 January 2020 06:52 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/single-button-multiple-press-options-new-thread-see-link-in-first-post/20559 "2020-01-19T06:52:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![Trying\_to\_learn](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/trying_to_learn/32/28400_2.png) [@Trying\_to\_learn](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Trying_to_learn)\
**Post date:** [19 January 2020 06:52 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/single-button-multiple-press-options-new-thread-see-link-in-first-post/20559/1 "2020-01-19T06:52:47Z")

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New thread:  
[See here.](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-detect-multiple-preses-on-a-single-button/20560)

Going on slightly from another thread with temperatures and alarms, it is interesting that I now have a similar question:

 ![Screenshot from 2020-01-19 17-48-55](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/3X/b/0/b01ba4e434230bfdebae303c7c707a233d0666f8.png)

This flow _works_ in that I have to press the button (start) 4 times to get an `ACTION!`

Pretty easy in retrospect to what @Andrei posted in the other thread.

Ok, so this works.

My _quest_ is that it can also detect a **single** press.

I'll be thinking about it in the mean time, but I am just not getting something in how to let it do either a **single** or multiple presses.

```auto
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**Author:** ![zenofmud](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/zenofmud/32/316_2.png) [@zenofmud](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/zenofmud)\
**Post date:** [19 January 2020 10:42 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/single-button-multiple-press-options-new-thread-see-link-in-first-post/20559/2 "2020-01-19T10:42:47Z")

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How would you tell if you made two single presses or if the two presses were ment to be tgether? you will need to define something like:  
If the button is pressed more than once in N seconds it is a multiple press  
else it is a single press.

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**Author:** ![Trying\_to\_learn](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/trying_to_learn/32/28400_2.png) [@Trying\_to\_learn](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Trying_to_learn)\
**Post date:** [19 January 2020 10:45 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/single-button-multiple-press-options-new-thread-see-link-in-first-post/20559/3 "2020-01-19T10:45:47Z")

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Ah!

You may want to take a peek at my other _shared flow_ which I subsequently posted.

I hope it is better than this effort.

[This one](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-detect-multiple-preses-on-a-single-button/20560/2)

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**Author:** ![zenofmud](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/zenofmud/32/316_2.png) [@zenofmud](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/zenofmud)\
**Post date:** [19 January 2020 11:01 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/single-button-multiple-press-options-new-thread-see-link-in-first-post/20559/4 "2020-01-19T11:01:15Z")

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If you have created another thread that superceeds this one, then please make it known in the title so people won't waste their time looking at this one.

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**Author:** ![Trying\_to\_learn](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/trying_to_learn/32/28400_2.png) [@Trying\_to\_learn](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Trying_to_learn)\
**Post date:** [19 January 2020 11:03 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/single-button-multiple-press-options-new-thread-see-link-in-first-post/20559/5 "2020-01-19T11:03:41Z")

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I hope that is good enough.

I don't exactly know exactly how to do what you are suggesting.

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**Author:** ![dceejay](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/dceejay/32/38_2.png) [@dceejay](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/dceejay)\
**Post date:** [19 January 2020 11:53 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/single-button-multiple-press-options-new-thread-see-link-in-first-post/20559/6 "2020-01-19T11:53:10Z")

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