Node-Red Palette: Common Choices

[aaiyar]

Not a node that I use, but I know that @bill.d does, so I am tagging him here. A while ago he posted this comprehensive flow that made use this node.

"Art" of the sequence, a Node-RED retrospective

I needed a motion lighting flow that respected manually controlling the lights. Along with usual time of day, illuminance filters. I wasn't being very successful, so Googling around I found an example from a HA user. It uses a node called a finite state machine. It takes a little bit to understand if you are not a programmer, but it's not that conceptually difficult. Basically the flow chooses a path based on triggers, current state, and future state. There's a lot more at the original reddit po…