BigTimer Update

[@sreeprakashneelakantan5051]

Excellent 🙏

[@walberg61]

I want to make a timer to start and stop some special lights, start on 10:30 ends on 22:30 but when i come to your second step, inputs? i only have text input blok! no timestamp

[@robertgallant6422]

Hi Peter, I see all you Node-Red video streamers have an option to sort the Debug Tab data in an Json format (8:45 minutes in the video). I have been trying to figure out how you all do it and can't find anything. I just did a fresh installed of Node-Red on a Raspberry Pi3 Jessie using Node-Red v8.9.3 & NPM 5.5.1as per Richard Wenner's video. What am I missing? BTW Love the BigTimer thanks, & Great videos!!!!

[@PeterScargill]

Robert Gallant click on the 2 dots.. in debug window. Will expand.

[@robertgallant6422]

That's the problem, I don't have the dots. This is what I get. 2017-12-11, 6:17:14 PMed7edcd.0d4c1a status : msg : Object { "payload": 1, "reference": ":ON:OFF:1097", "topic": "status", "state": "ON Auto", "time": "05hrs 43mins", "name": "Big Timer", "start": 1027, "end": 0, "dusk": 1027, "dawn": 438, "solarNoon": 733, "sunrise": 473, "sunset": 993, "night": 1102, "nightEnd": 363, "now": 1097, "timer": 0, "duration": 343, "onOverride": -1, "offOverride": -1, "_msgid": "db81edf4.f1d9f" }

[@robertgallant6422]

You know what they say... When you assume you make an ass out of you and.... well in this case just me. LOL I assumed that installing a fresh copy of Jessie with node-red and updating node-red that I was at the latest version. Not. I was at 0.15.3, ran the bash script on the node-red page and I'm now at 0.17.5 and all is working fine now in the debug tab. Thanks for the quick reply. Cheers

[@PeterScargill]

You're either putting the wrong data in or you have an old Node-Red. Check out which version you have and update accordingly... your data LOOKS ok. Older versions of NR didn't support this ..... progress!

[@EdwinPWeston]

Thank you, I did not know you could freeze the debug node without deploying!!! That's a "Big Time" saver!

[@onlyiwilknow]

Peter, Thanks for your excellent Node and effort with this very good vid. I hope this is something you will be able to help me with:- I have a Node-RED flow that turns on and off my portable aircon in my home office but I would like to restrict it to working hours plus and minus one hour both sides. For now a simple rule: How do I combine bigtimer time setting with the function:-"switch" I have at the moment. Later on, I will be combining this bigtimer rules with the availabe Solar Power that I produce, so I would like to get to grips with the basics concepts first. Regards Frits

[@mandeepmails]

I’m grateful to see such an elaboration. Hats off to your knowledge and presentation skill. Undoubtedly I’m newbie into this, and exploring all I can, may be you could point me to the right place, if there’s a guide to get expertise over nodered. I’m still unable to correlate some basic stuff sometimes...my first project I’ve decided is to have complete dashboard for my room lighting controls. I’ve already bought one Nodemcu.v9 and got raspberry pi able to use gpio pins. But not over wireless MQTT.....please advise me. Thanks in advance.

[@RobGregory]

Thank you Peter, for the video and the node(red) contribution. Both, very much appreciated. Awesome work.

[@guidoberning8878]

Hi Peter I‘m using BigTimer for 13 roller shutter and it‘s great! But one think I can not manage. I want the bedroom shutter to be opened at sunrise but not before 6:30 and closed on sunset but at least on 22:00. How can I do that with the BigTimer?

[@PeterScargill]

Suffix with an inject node I guess...which would force off before 6:30am etc

[@guidoberning8878]

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[@PeterScargill]

Check the INFO panel in the Node-Red Dashboard when clicked on your timer for the various things you can do with overrided, manual etc. It is all there. Simply put s debug node on the output showing the ful message (not just msg.payload) to see the full range of things you can get out of BigTimer and when.

[@uweri_3851]

Hello Peter, great stuff. Hope we get much more of these kind of videos. For me combination off ESP8266/ESP32 sensors, Raspberry Pi as MQTT server is perfect.

[@MrHandsomejackuk]

anyone know if its possible to send the audio from the play audio node directly to the raspberry pi rather than have it on my computer... my pi is running the nodered...

[@ismzaxxon]

Have been following you for a while. I am having trouble finding how to decode simple text string sent to node red to use the built in displayes. i do not want to use firmata as that uses up to much cpu time. example, arduino measures temperature, pressure and wind speed/direction this then gets sent to nodered reasp pi via serial usb converter. If any knows of a link that explains this, i would be greatful.

[@PeterScargill]

Don't know enough about your setup. Using an ESP (my code is available as BIN files on the web) you could read temperature and pressure etc and sent to Node-Red via MQTT. Never taken a look at wind speed/direction...

[@PeterScargill]

Just remember when sending strings off to displays via serial for example - Node red strings are NOT BYTES - they are 16-bit... there's a buffer conversion function - can't remember the name but it sounds like buffer. If you try sending a normal string out to something expecting 8-bit bytes you'll be in for a surprise. Ah yes, here it is - so I needed to send out 3 control bytes - then a string to the serial port.. var b = Buffer([0xFF, 0xFF, 0xFF]); // the bytes we want to add var buf = Buffer.concat( [ Buffer(msg.payload), b ] ); msg.payload = buf; return msg; Fairly self-explanatory.. Pulling IN data from the serial port I wrote a function .... I fired the incoming payload into this.. function bin2String(array) { return String.fromCharCode.apply(String, array); } Hope that is useful to someone.

[@greenmanreddog]

An excellent video and an excellent timer - thank you for sharing this with us.

[@arielro85]

HEy Peter! Awesome work you did here! Keep moving like this! :) Thanks a lottt!

[@chuxxsss]

Bigtimer is look great Peter, all I need is to work out why my pi will not update anymore and I can update bigtimer. Thank you for making Bigtimer from the bottom of my heart. Have a great day.

[@pokenchoke]

Great explanation, thank you sir.

[@powermate]

thanks great video. How to we use this timer to stop messages for a time period and then pass on the original messages after the timer period thanks.

[@jackiepiccolo4014]

Very useful timer. Thank you

[@structure7]

Thanks again for creating this and its continued development.

[@vandehoek]

Great video, thanks.

[@michaelwoidt2814]

I would like to use the big timer to give every 10 minutes an ON signial between dawn and dusk for example to trigger a rsync process on the underlying Ubuntu Linux. Now I use the normal inject node to do this but there is no dusk and dawn but fixed timming. How can I do this? Thanks for your great contributions.

[@PeterScargill]

Wrong tool for the job.

[@avejst]

Thanks for sharing. I am not ready to jump to NodeRed just jet. But interesting coding script!!👍😀

[@PeterScargill]

Thanks to all - if you want to return the favour and haven't already - subscribe to my KZbin Channel and the blog at tech.scargill.net - more feedback means more features!

[@LlamaOates]

Thanks Peter for the time you put into this. Use it for my outdoor lights on at sunset and then off at different times as it gets later as we retreat inside.

[@sjp770]

Thanks for all your work. Possibly add description of the units used for the offset in the info tab? Good to see it here, didn't see it before

[@PeterScargill]

Done - will be added in the next release.

[@HelloHelloXD]

Great job!

[@MrHandsomejackuk]

nice one thanks

[@leeiberry]

only using bigtimer's one-off message output , but its pushing out a message every minute , is that right ? all i have entered was a start and end time .. MQTT topic, plus ON off Values otherwise great node ;)

[@PeterScargill]

The second output repeats every minute (assuming you have selected "repeat"

[@leeiberry]

Peter Scargill sorry should have included ,. Selected top/first output ... Every minute published the same mqtt message ....

[@henrybausa2435]

Hi-sir, Thus big-timer can also control python script inside exec node or pythonshell node?.. Thank you in advance

[@PeterScargill]

It is Node-Red that does that.

[@henrybausa2435]

Yes-sir. Thanks you for introducing bigtimer in node-red, my python script is now working and this node would be a big help for several devices that we may use for our thesis project.

[@lexenans]

Hey Peter nice work! usine big timer for little while now and works great! One question is there a way to add the message off for xxhrs and xxmins at my dashboard with the switch i use big timer on ? Best regards from Holland!

[@PeterScargill]

On and off times are every 15 mins but you can add positive or negative offsets.

[@TheAntonsoft]

@@PeterScargill Hallo, I have similar question (probably the same question).... Is there any way to edit/modify the variable values (e.g. ON/OFF time, Offsets, Long/Lat, Day/Month, etc) from the Node-RED Dashboard (the User Interface). This means we do not edit the variables from the Node-RED editor (not editing the BigTimer node itself), but from the Node-RED User Interface that is created using Dashboard templates?

[@PeterScargill]

@@TheAntonsoft Simple answer would be no.

[@TheAntonsoft]

@@PeterScargill Hallo Peter, ok, this means I will need to open the BigTimer node, and edit it from the Node-RED flow, in case I need to change the On/Off time, etc., and cannot be edited from the UI/Dashboard. The reason I asked this is that some users (my family member) maybe not familiar with editing the Node-RED flow, but they can use the UI Dashboard. Anyway, thank you for the quick answer.

[@PeterScargill]

@@TheAntonsoft the general idea is that you would set these times and simply use manual override for temporary changes.