Timer with User Interface control/feedback

The timer is based on Schedex node and applicable for following purposes:

• Automated adjustable watering/lighting/pumping.
• Timer-controlled watering/lighting/pumping.

Features:

• programmable automated timer (Schedex ) which can be:
• Enabled or disabled from UI;
• Or overridden with switch;
• Active time can be adjusted from UI;
• Or enable load for timeout defined in UI with countdown feedback;
• logging, including persistent graphs;
• Control each circuit separately;
• Show the status of each circuit on dashboard;
• Keep/restore important settings and status.

Easy to add:

• MQTT posting.
• Local IO control.
• Active time correction by actual measurements (for instance, adding PID loop for watering correction).

The valve/switch control script is here.

To multiply control circuits:

• 1 - Set your schedule in Schedex Timer.
• 2 - Set persist storage to store and restore last command.
• 3 - Tune/replace Exec node with your actuator.
• 4 - Rename UI switch.
• 5 - In parse_timeout function set the same name to flow.get() as in UI_to_flow_context flow.set().
• 6 - Connect output of switch2timer function to Schedex timer of each circuit.

It is possible to set separated systems: one for watering, one for pumping and one for lighting. Edit the flow.set/get variable name in UI_to_flow_context and in parse_timeout functions.

Credits: Thank you people helped in the Node-RED forum

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