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Schedule Scheduler Node Red.
We continue with Node Red in Home Assistant, today I bring you another mini manual but the most interesting and productive, it is the BIGTIMER node, for me without a doubt one of the best nodes to be able to create a time scheduler in Home Assistant with the help of Node Red, in case you don't know what it is Node Red in Home Assistant Click on the link.
I recommend that you experiment with this incredible tool to create your automations in Home Assistant / Hassio, from my point of view it is easier than using the automations section that Home Assistant itself has, in addition to being more visual and intuitive, at first it can It may seem complicated, but once you control the four basic nodes, you will see its potential and simplicity.
We are going to add examples little by little of the most interesting nodes from my point of view, if you know of any that are worth mentioning, comment it, so we can try it.
To start we have to have this incredible node installed, how do we know? I'll explain.
First we go to the settings Node Red.
Pincha in Manage palette
Here we can see the nodes that we have installed on Node Red, we can see that BigTimer is already installed, if it does not appear in the list, we would have to go to the Install tab and search for it to later install it.
Once installed we locate it in our left sidebar, where we have all our nodes and we drag it to our Flow and click on it twice to see the node properties.
Schedule Scheduler in Home Assistant
In this window we see part of its configuration, to start it is important to put the coordinates in the section Latitude so that we can adjust the area where we are and update the sunset and sunrise.
In the ON Msg section we introduce on and in OFF Msg we indicate off This is the topic that we want to send when the configuration we have selected is met.
Within the same BigTimer we can create two maneuvers ON Time and ON Time 2, we can assign a time zone or twilight, even timed.
You can also select which days of the month the task has to be executed or in which months it has to work, the truth is that the possibilities are countless, for example:
I have created a scheduler node red for irrigation in which he assigned a few minutes in two time slots and in certain months, as I show in the image below.
As we see in the images, I have two timers selected, one at 7 with an execution time of 10 minutes and another at 00:00 with the same time, we can also see that I have selected all the days of the week and the months from March to October, dates on which the maneuvers will be carried out, as you can see a thousand things can be configured to adapt them to our needs.
If you are interested in knowing how to make this Flow, leave your comment and we will explain it in more detail and if you have questions you can also put them below and as I said at the beginning of the entry, if you know of any interesting node, comment below so you can experience it.
That looks like them Node Red?
Have you been able to try the Schedule Scheduler? Node Red, Do you have a scheduler in Home Assistant???
Hello, I find it very interesting. Could you explain how the card works from home assistant?
Thanks Uly.
Hello, the only thing I have been able to do to integrate it with the Home Assistant card is to create a boolean input that activates and deactivates the programmer. I have tried to change the parameters of the programmer but still without success, I don't know if it will be possible.
I would appreciate having details of the flow
Hello, here I give you an example of activating the pool pump.
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