I’m starting to try using Node Red and I wanted to be able to add a button to the console to be read by a flow to ignore the AC input. I’m currently doing this control through a Cerbo relay connected to a Multiplus AUX input (and an assistant on the Multiplus reading the AUX input), but I wanted to be able to free up the Cerbo relay for another function. From what I’ve understood about Node Red so far, there’s no such possibility of adding a button to the console, I can only read buttons or existing data. So I just wanted to confirm if that’s really it, or if there’s something I haven’t discovered yet.
V3.60 beta versions had a node called a “Virtual Switch” which added a switch pane to the console and could be used to control actions in a Node Red flow. I tested it and it worked most of the time but had a few problems which were not solved in time so it did not make the final release. The Virtual Switch node should return in V3.70 beta testing soon. Create your flow but for the moment using an inject node that has a 0 or 1 output and swap that to a virtual switch when they come back.
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