Suggestion: Expose upcoming activity

[pittbull]

I've been using these nodes for a little while, and what I've come to do is to open Node-red to check when the next either saver or normal period will start. As I am still learning the ropes on coding within the function node I wonder if it possible to expose in the payload the time and action for the next event?

I believe you already send this data to node but I don't know how to pick it up and reuse in a Lovelace.

[ottopaulsen]

The functionality you need for this is already in place, in version 3.3.0.

Below is an example flow that gives you this to a debug node.

Send this payload to the strategy node:

{"commands":{"sendSchedule":true}}

Then the node will send its current schedule to output 3. If you connect that output to a function node with the following code:

const schedule = msg.payload.schedule
const next = schedule.filter(s => Date.parse(s.time) > Date.now())
return {payload: {next: next[0] || []}};

Then you will get the next scheduled event on the output.

How to use this in HA, you must ask someone else :-)

But if you reply it back here, maybe I can provide an example of the whole thing in the docs.

Example flow:

[
    {
        "id": "eb951b71bd6f752e",
        "type": "ps-strategy-lowest-price",
        "z": "13662a5a6c84b388",
        "name": "Lowest Price",
        "fromTime": "16",
        "toTime": "00",
        "hoursOn": "3",
        "doNotSplit": false,
        "sendCurrentValueWhenRescheduling": true,
        "outputIfNoSchedule": "false",
        "outputOutsidePeriod": "false",
        "x": 330,
        "y": 480,
        "wires": [
            [],
            [],
            [
                "43d53d58a68ed92c"
            ]
        ]
    },
    {
        "id": "4e47cfd447d053d6",
        "type": "debug",
        "z": "13662a5a6c84b388",
        "name": "Schedule",
        "active": true,
        "tosidebar": true,
        "console": false,
        "tostatus": false,
        "complete": "payload",
        "targetType": "msg",
        "statusVal": "",
        "statusType": "auto",
        "x": 660,
        "y": 480,
        "wires": []
    },
    {
        "id": "ce748c7dd98d6156",
        "type": "inject",
        "z": "13662a5a6c84b388",
        "name": "Output schedule",
        "props": [
            {
                "p": "payload"
            }
        ],
        "repeat": "",
        "crontab": "",
        "once": false,
        "onceDelay": 0.1,
        "topic": "",
        "payload": "{\"commands\":{\"sendSchedule\":true}}",
        "payloadType": "json",
        "x": 140,
        "y": 480,
        "wires": [
            [
                "eb951b71bd6f752e"
            ]
        ]
    },
    {
        "id": "43d53d58a68ed92c",
        "type": "function",
        "z": "13662a5a6c84b388",
        "name": "",
        "func": "const schedule = msg.payload.schedule\nconst next = schedule.filter(s => Date.parse(s.time) > Date.now())\nreturn {payload: {next: next[0] || []}};",
        "outputs": 1,
        "noerr": 0,
        "initialize": "",
        "finalize": "",
        "libs": [],
        "x": 500,
        "y": 480,
        "wires": [
            [
                "4e47cfd447d053d6"
            ]
        ]
    }
]

[pittbull]

Thank you kindly for your input.

I was able to extract the time and display it in HA.