What about a default behaviour?

niklaswall / node-red-contrib-light-scheduler

Light Scheduler is a node-red node that provides a weekly schedule mainly focused on controlling light in home automation scenarios.

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What about a default behaviour? #18

Open Dwarfex opened 6 years ago

Dwarfex commented 6 years ago

I would like a setting to configure the default behaviour of the scheduler.

So you could directly choose from auto/on/off/light-only/schedule-only.

Currently i am using an additional "startup" trigger to trigger an "light-only" message to the scheduler.

niklaswall commented 5 years ago

Hi,

Sorry for the late reply :-(

The main idea has been that it default to "Schedule only" or "Only when dark" and that the input is override only... but I can see that there are times when you would like to start at "Override: Off" (for example) and than have another trigger to enable / disable the schedule.

I would very much like to understand how you use the node, so that I can decide how to proceed with this request!

MDAR commented 5 years ago

I didn't realise that "have another trigger to enable / disable the schedule" was possible.

It makes your scheduler even more suitable for heating control.

As a use case, it might be nice to have the scheduler start 'disabled', but have a 'is it winter?' or 'what is the external temperature' node enable the scheduler.