Inching in NodeRED

I needed a simple flow for inching mechanism. If you don't know what "inching" means, it's a fancy term for turning a thing ON and then turning it OFF a couple of seconds/minutes later. You could call it a timer wannabee with a preset timer.

• Complete instructions

Features:

• Custom timout
• Single payload message
• cancel/repeat behaviour

Requirements

• node-red-dashboard (optional)

Settings

• timeout - time in seconds to take the opposite action

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