Stupid beginner question about repeated flows/ intervals

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Hi folks, I have a mildy goofy setup where I find myself passing certain sensor values from Smartthings to home assistant.

I have my flow setup 1:1

ST sensor -> HA entity
ST sensor -> HA entity
ST sensor -> HA entity
ST sensor -> HA entity
ect

its working fine in the sense that I get my values whenever I restart / save my flow, I can't for the life of me find a straightforward way for this flow to repeat itself (all the connected sensors) so that I can get a 1/s or 10/s interval of updated sensor values.

I've tried the following:

/node/node-red-contrib-repeat

I have a hunch that all three of these can technically accomplish what I want but I can't figure out how to actually make them do it.

There doesn't seem to be any way I can just select a flow and have the entire flow / set of connected sensors-> entities to repeatedly update every second or two. The closest I get is payload/msg errors, surely there's a simple way to do this?

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The standard inject node can be set to repeat at intervals

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Do I attach it at the beginning of the flow or in-between the Smartthings sensor and the Home Assistant entity?

how do I make it activate the flow?

Do i need run for each pairing or can I attach it to the start of all of them?

I tried it earlier and couldn't make it work

PS:
I've tried hitting the smartthings sensor with msg.topic=update as per the following from the smartthings integration help:

" All device nodes can receive at its input a message with the msg.topic of update to force the output of the current device state. This is useful when handling a request, for example."

but no luck so far

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It's difficult to give an answer without seeing your flow.
Can you post the exported flow here, or at least a screen grab of the editor?

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Capture

thanks for the help

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Put a single inject node and have it repeat every 10 seconds (or whatever you want) - link it to the input of each of the smartthings nodes

I do not know what input they are expecting - but if they can be forced to poll - rather than just being passive and waiting for data to be delivered to them - then there should be a message you can inject using the inject node

Craig

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Are you sure "update" doesn't trigger a response from smartthings - have you put a debug node on the smartthings output?

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Ok, and as much as I use foreign nodes myself.....

The configurable-interval node.....

The delay node can do that too.

You just send a msg.delay in the inbound payload and it changed to that time.
Yes, it is milliseconds, but as long are you *1000 the number of seconds, it isn't really a problem.

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the closest I can get it is having it repeat the same value / output from when i restart the flow, but the ST sensor does not report the correct new value until I modify and start the flow or restart it

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when I hit it with msg.topic = update it repeats its output but does not give the new actual wattage of the sensor

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attempting to find info in the following threads but no luck so far

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Yeah well it sounds like a few other people have the same issue with that node - so i think you are going to have to wait to hear from the author

Craig

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Have you read right through this thread and all the troubleshootig steps on the Smartthings webhook side of things ?

Craig

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