Hello, I am using node-red with home assistant and I am trying to use subflows to simplify my flows. I am trying to add a subflow to another subflow and both these subflows have environment variables defined for specifying sensor parameters.
But the issue is that I am unable to pass the env variable specified on the first level subflow to the nested subflow. Please find below an example of what I am working on.
When the motion sensor in this flow generates the "off" event, the event is passed to the "is room occupied" subflow which using the motion sensor name as a parameter. But it appears like the actual value of the parameter is not configured on this subflow and the value '${MOTION_SENSOR_1}' is supplied as is which results in the debug message: "Entity could not be found in cache for entity_id: ${MOTION_SENSOR_1}".
What is the correct way for propagating the value of MOTION_SENSOR_1 to the nested subflow?
Thanks in advance
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