While loop not working, even though false condition is met

[kravalli]

Hi,

I am trying to increment the brightness of my led while I hold down my Ikea tradfri button. If I hold the down button, the msg.payload.event.command output is "move". As soon as I let go it outputs "stop_with_on_off" as you can see in the debug menu. However I still get an endless loop, because it still resorts to the true condition, even though the false was met.

Thanks in advance

[bakman2]

Try to avoid loops at all cost in node-red.

The easiest way to do this is to use a trigger node, which can send a message every second.
The trigger node can be cancelled by sending a msg.reset (usually i send msg.reset set to false)
This will cancel the trigger and thus the brightness.

Something like this:

[E1cid]

The Trigger node can also be reset by any msg.payload value you wish to use. So you can trigger on move and reset on stop_with_on_off.
e.g.

[{"id":"c6b3048da8f259f9","type":"debug","z":"da8a6ef0b3c9a5c8","name":"debug 226","active":true,"tosidebar":true,"console":false,"tostatus":false,"complete":"payload","targetType":"msg","statusVal":"","statusType":"auto","x":590,"y":3820,"wires":[]},{"id":"17ae2d4bda5d3143","type":"trigger","z":"da8a6ef0b3c9a5c8","name":"","op1":"1","op2":"0","op1type":"str","op2type":"str","duration":"-1","extend":false,"overrideDelay":false,"units":"s","reset":"stop_with_on_off","bytopic":"all","topic":"topic","outputs":1,"x":400,"y":3880,"wires":[["c6b3048da8f259f9"]]},{"id":"4b948b0a3f5a39e5","type":"inject","z":"da8a6ef0b3c9a5c8","name":"","props":[{"p":"payload"},{"p":"topic","vt":"str"}],"repeat":"","crontab":"","once":false,"onceDelay":0.1,"topic":"","payload":"move","payloadType":"str","x":170,"y":3860,"wires":[["17ae2d4bda5d3143"]]},{"id":"bde352fde2225293","type":"inject","z":"da8a6ef0b3c9a5c8","name":"","props":[{"p":"payload"},{"p":"topic","vt":"str"}],"repeat":"","crontab":"","once":false,"onceDelay":0.1,"topic":"","payload":"stop_with_on_off","payloadType":"str","x":160,"y":3900,"wires":[["17ae2d4bda5d3143"]]}]

[kravalli]

Thanks this works flawlessly