node-red-contrib-home-assistant-websocket

Time

A node that can be scheduled to trigger at a future date and time from a Home Assistant entity.

Configuration

Entity Id

  • Type: string

A Home Assistant entity to be used when scheduling the node.

Property

  • Type: string

Which property of the entity object to use to schedule the node.

example properties:

  • entity_id
  • state
  • attributes.date
  • last_updated

example values for the property:

  • 2020-12-31T02:47:54.837Z
  • 1609382842709
  • 13:40
  • 23:59:02

Offset

  • Type: number

A negative or positive number that will be added to the scheduled time.

Randomize time within the offset

  • Type: boolean

When selected the time to trigger will be random selected from the scheduled time to the +/- offset.

Payload

  • Type: string | number | boolean | object

The payload is fully customizable. The default will be a JSONata expression that outputs the entity state.

Repeat Daily

  • Type: boolean

If selected the node will only use the time portion of the date string to schedule the node and will trigger at that time each day. Otherwise, the node will only trigger once at the given day and time.

Expose as

  • Type: string

When an entity is selected a switch entity will be created in Home Assistant. Turning on and off this switch will disable/enable the nodes in Node-RED.

Outputs

topic

  • Type: string

The entity id in the configuration.

payload

  • Type: string | number | boolean | object

data

  • Type: object

The entity object of the entity in the configuration.