Thanks for saying so. Have fun!
I have landscapers redoing my whole yard and I'll need to pick up my dog whenever they call so I"ll be in and out too.
I sure appreciate your help and patience with a noob.
Hi. Your description sounds just as the trigger should work. Set it to send original payload on first input Then wait 15 secs then send false , and extend if more messages arrive. ( unless I am missing something)
@dceejay Thank you for chiming in.
Yes, that's exactly what I want but not what I get. I'm rather disillusioned at this point.
Ok, @zenofmud, I'll go back to my initial flow setup and make that change. Stand by...
I get the same behavior as in posts 9 & 10.
I didn't change the Send as you suggested because I do NOT want a False to pass through.
Went ahead and made that change and it WORKS! But why??? Seems a massive misnomer to me.
Try this small test flow
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Will do but first I tried sending the False before the True and, as I feared, it gets passed through.
Interesting. Your flow does absolutely nothing here.
Maybe this is a problem?
desktop[~] node -v
v14.1.0
I see that there is an update v14.1.0 -> 14.1.0-2 available.
well node 14 is bleading edge... what platform are you running on?
If you only want to send a TRUE to kick off the lighting, then you will have to have the state of the light saved. so when a msg comes in. it the light is off, send the msg to the trigger to turn on the light, but if the light is off and a false comes thru throw it away.
Give me a few minutes
I'm on Arch Linux.
It's time to retrieve my pooch so I'll get back to you in about 45 min.
The recommended version of Node.js is 12.x - there may be things in node.js 14.x that could cause issues.
Here is a flow that should do what you want, it's more complicated but your requirements have changed.
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Fair enough, I think I can downgrade to that and will do so.
I'll give your flow a go. Thanks for providing it.
I beg your pardon if I didn't state my requirements clearly but they have not changed, not yet anyway.
There are lots of versions available so I'll pick 12.13.0 as it's the last of the 12.x
BTW, I don't recall coming across a requirement for the nodejs version so thanks for that.
That's me, livin' on the edge! 
NR didn't want to run after the nodejs downgrade so I'm updating all the (bleeding edge 
) packages and will reboot. One of the packages is
nodejs-node-red 1.0.6-1 1 -> 2
It figures... NR won't install with nodejs 12.13.0 due to:
error while loading shared libraries: libicui18n.so.64
I posted a request for advice over on that forum.
I was warned that the whole node.js environment is DLL hell on steroids. 
It turns out that the Arch version of NR won't run on nodejs later than v6. I abandoned Windows partly because of this kind of thing so I'm saying goodbye to NR. Too bad because it is a GREAT idea and I hope someone builds a similar app on a stable environment.
Thanks one and all for your assistance here.
