Time Range for the weekend

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I have been using the time range node to limit messages being sent at night.

I'd like to have a different time range for the weekend.

Can anyone suggest how?

I looked at bigtimer and it looks like the msg.payload can be passed through, but I really want the whole msg passed on.

Looks like the job for a function if not.

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In combination with this maybe:

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I recommend to use in general the switch node to filter messages.

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[{"id":"2d7a85e86e845196","type":"switch","z":"0db43ef5ee91fda8","name":"","property":"$number($moment().format('E'))","propertyType":"jsonata","rules":[{"t":"gte","v":"6","vt":"num"},{"t":"lt","v":"6","vt":"num"}],"checkall":"true","repair":false,"outputs":2,"x":770,"y":500,"wires":[["008d2bd0cfe771c3"],["61043008eef85152"]]},{"id":"008d2bd0cfe771c3","type":"debug","z":"0db43ef5ee91fda8","name":"is weekend","active":true,"tosidebar":true,"console":false,"tostatus":false,"complete":"payload","targetType":"msg","statusVal":"","statusType":"auto","x":970,"y":480,"wires":[]},{"id":"61043008eef85152","type":"debug","z":"0db43ef5ee91fda8","name":"is working day","active":true,"tosidebar":true,"console":false,"tostatus":false,"complete":"payload","targetType":"msg","statusVal":"","statusType":"auto","x":980,"y":520,"wires":[]},{"id":"ab42be5d649efe82","type":"inject","z":"0db43ef5ee91fda8","name":"","props":[{"p":"payload"}],"repeat":"","crontab":"","once":false,"onceDelay":0.1,"topic":"","payload":"true","payloadType":"bool","x":630,"y":500,"wires":[["2d7a85e86e845196"]]}]

EDIT: Changed the switch - to use numbers 1 to 7 for week days.

Btw: Time Range is not necessary as well - can be done with standard nodes in the same way.

If you prefer - a GUI Interface as a filter - I recommend the lightscheduler nodes - which include a filter node and astro times.

Using the filter node - you can use the mouse to send payloads to first or second out put:

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Don't over complicate things. Have two schedules, 1 for weekday and one for weekend.

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Thanks. I'd looked at using a switch, but generally avoid using moment (and your example uses it).

Yes, the complication was (is) calculating what day it is. Yes, I could use moment, but I have a bit of an aversion to it for some reason.

Shame there is not a day_range node to complement the time_range node :frowning:

This does seem to confirm I have not missed anything obvious in how to do it.

I'll just use a function to block the messages.

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Yep you want the WIthin-time node from node-red-contrib-sunpos - does exactly what you want

Craig

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Agree, the sunposition Node has some very nice and useful nodes.

I have this in my startup processing:

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You don't have to use moments, JSONata has the $now(), which you can format to return day of week, Then $substring() to return first letter, eg "s". So in switch, == "s" is week end, otherwise week day.

$substring($now("[F]"),0,1)

you can add a timezone if you wish to.

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Ah, that is what I am after. Excellent.

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Took me a minute to get this right, so for anyone following on

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You will look at that in two years and say what does this do !!!

Better off with the Sunpos node - it is very intuitive and self explanatory.

Also i believe moment is now included in the standard NR install AFAIK - i seem to remember Nick saying something about this in a thread a little while ago.

Craig

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How does sunpos help with weekends? All my sun position stuff is done in HA anyway so I have no need for it.

Nope, nicely documented in the description :slight_smile:

Interesting.

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I think you meant node-red-contrib-sun-position (node) - Node-RED (sunpos is a different node) and it isn't well named as it does far more than work on sun position!! I'll have another look.

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Yep sorry about the incorrect name - the Within-time node allows you to define a time/day/month range that interests you (say the weekend) and if it falls within the time it will go to output 1 - if not it goes to output 2 - makes it very easy to chain them for specfic conditions etc - has a nice status display to show when it will next fire etc etc

Craig

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