Request for single on or off time to be valid

[TinajaLabs]

I have a LIFX LED bulb. I would like to change it to different colors during the course of the evening.

What I'm configuring is a series of schedex timers that change the color (by payload values) for each time changing the color at goldenHour, night, nadir, etc.

What I think I need is series of the timer nodes that just set the LIFX on with a different color. I don't need the off settings.

Unfortunately I get an error if I do not define the off time.

Additionally there's a conundrum about what happens if I define night for the off time in one color changing schedex node and night for the on time in a subsequent color changing schedex node. What if the on hits before the off?

On the last node I am using an off and an on time.

This is a request to validate a schedex node with only an off or on time defined.

[biddster]

I think you can achieve what you want much easier by using the sun events node directly.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-red-contrib-sunevents

[biddster]

Does this example help?

Note that you'll need to edit the sun events node and insert your long/lat location.

[{"id":"2e82fff8.81df6","type":"sun events","z":"465f1675.c1e758","testmode":"N","verbose":"N","topic":"","name":"","x":218.5,"y":617,"wires":[["7df61111.719a9"]]},{"id":"7df61111.719a9","type":"switch","z":"465f1675.c1e758","name":"","property":"payload","propertyType":"msg","rules":[{"t":"eq","v":"goldenHour","vt":"str"},{"t":"eq","v":"sunset","vt":"str"},{"t":"eq","v":"dusk","vt":"str"}],"checkall":"true","outputs":3,"x":370.5,"y":617,"wires":[["2bae7853.9545e8"],["2cc602f9.25ca0e"],["437c7376.1b9cac"]]},{"id":"2bae7853.9545e8","type":"change","z":"465f1675.c1e758","name":"golden hour -> red lights","rules":[{"t":"set","p":"payload","pt":"msg","to":"red","tot":"str"},{"t":"set","p":"topic","pt":"msg","to":"red","tot":"str"}],"action":"","property":"","from":"","to":"","reg":false,"x":575.5,"y":581,"wires":[["ce8d85af.294578"]]},{"id":"2cc602f9.25ca0e","type":"change","z":"465f1675.c1e758","name":"sunset -> yellow lights","rules":[{"t":"set","p":"payload","pt":"msg","to":"yellow","tot":"str"},{"t":"set","p":"topic","pt":"msg","to":"yellow","tot":"str"}],"action":"","property":"","from":"","to":"","reg":false,"x":566,"y":618,"wires":[["ce8d85af.294578"]]},{"id":"437c7376.1b9cac","type":"change","z":"465f1675.c1e758","name":"dusk -> blue lights","rules":[{"t":"set","p":"payload","pt":"msg","to":"blue","tot":"str"},{"t":"set","p":"topic","pt":"msg","to":"blue","tot":"str"}],"action":"","property":"","from":"","to":"","reg":false,"x":558,"y":656,"wires":[["ce8d85af.294578"]]},{"id":"1b8559f6.ef5366","type":"inject","z":"465f1675.c1e758","name":"Off at midnight","topic":"off","payload":"off","payloadType":"str","repeat":"","crontab":"00 00 * * *","once":false,"x":561.5,"y":700,"wires":[["ce8d85af.294578"]]},{"id":"ce8d85af.294578","type":"debug","z":"465f1675.c1e758","name":"Replace with LIFX node...","active":true,"console":"false","complete":"true","x":893.5,"y":652,"wires":[]}]

[TinajaLabs]

Probably will. I'll check it this eve. Thanks.

[biddster]

Did that above help @TinajaLabs ?

[jwygralak67]

I'd like to bump this issue. My use case is that I want to use schedex as an alarm clock. I want to set an ontime and have schedex emit a message that initiates some process, but I don't need it to emit any message for an offtime, as stopping the alarm process will be done via user input.

I suppose I could work around the issue by setting on & offtimes, then putting a filter on the output which throws away the off message.

[biddster]

Fixed in 1.3.0.