Hello, does anyone know how to use the Location node in NR when starting a flow X minutes before a sunset event?
Do you mean the Hubitat NR integration Location node, or a geolocation node?
If it is former, then set a variable to the value of the Location node; the variable will change as the Location event changes. Check the variable's value (or a list of acceptable values) using a switch node in your sequence that begins X minutes before sunset.
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I use a node-red-contrib-bigtimer or node-red-contrib-time-range-switch to make things happen relative to Sunrise/Sunset instead. Bigtimer has a ton of options.
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Since @aaiyar gave a good answer i'll give an alturnative I think I got from him ;).
I use the "big timer" node for this sunset -15 minute lighting sequence. Inside the node you set your lat/long and it takes it from there.
Sunset Lighting example
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dang @stephen_nutt beat me to it, but I already have everything typed out so there ya go 
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I guess I'm confused because from the description I thought @jpoeppelman1 already had a mechanism (eg. Bigtimer) to start a sequence X mins before sunset, but wanted to test for a specific value in the Hubitat Location node at that time.
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ok, then we need clarification. I thought he wanted to trigger a sequence when the Location Node spit out sunrise or sunset. 
Edit: I don't even know IF the Location Node spits out anything at sunrise or sunset.
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It should - going to find out today.
ok yeah I had to read the post slowly a couple times, but if that is the case then @aaiyar nailed it just a switch/function node and a variable or two. Since you can't link a Location node directly into a sequence it would have to be done by a variable of sorts.
Dropped a debug on the location node to see what all it spits out over 24 hours.
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Ha - we think alike. Just did the same thing!
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TechMedX is a big timer! Thank you!
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Yeah - I'm just an old timer 
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