More a suggestion than bug.

[Just-another-pleb]

The "on" and "off" fields.
They allow only ONE entry. Fair enough, but.... (wink)

There are times when I am using a complicated gate layout and there are many paths.
Therefore there are many signals.

Could the OFF field be allowed to accept multiple types?

eg: off || close || shut

Those words a poor examples but to help get the idea through.

That way you could have something like this.
(Again slight over simplified.)

[drmibell]

@Just-another-pleb, I'm not clear on what you are trying to achieve. I take it that you want the option for the node to accept several alternative forms of control messages, at least for open and close if not for toggle and default. However, I don't understand how one would use this capability. Please try to describe an example that would help me see the value of this change and how often it is likely to be used.

My first thought is that each gate node could be preceded by a change node that replaces any of the alternative forms of a control message by the one that is programmed into the gate. This means extra nodes, but you might not have to do it often.

A general approach to dealing with a "complicated gate layout" would be my node-red-contrib-remote-gate node. This has not been published to npm, but is available on GitHub. Please take a look at the section on Complex Control in the README and let me know whether either of these ideas can meet your requirement.

[Just-another-pleb]

Yeah, ok. I maybe didn't explain it the best.

And typically when I look in my flows, I can't find the example (existing) where I have to write extra nodes/code to get around the "problem".

I have scenarios where I could have multiple source signals (functions) from which I want to select only one.

This is a bigger picture of what I am wanting to do.

It isn't 100% wired correctly. But it is to show the connections, and given that the gate node can accept multiple "off" signals.

So each gate will OPEN only when it receives a specific signal.
Any other signal (or specified to keep the toggle option active) it becomes CLOSED

I just found part of the flow where I need this.

Green rectangle different input selections.
Red rectangle control of the signals to control gate nodes.
Purple (I goofed and missed one of the gate nodes just to the left of the ractangle) the gate nodes and output.

[drmibell]

With only a screenshot and not the actual flow, I have some difficulty working out exactly the logic you are trying to achieve. If what you want is to use a single message to set the state of an arbitrary number of gate nodes, something like this flow should work:

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As an example, each of the inject nodes gives you a different set of states or transitions for some or all of the gates. I hope this helps.

[Just-another-pleb]

Yeah, ok. (Again)

That flow has "extra" buttons to do things.

Basically the idea is you have a button to activate that input.

This is a better flow to demonstrate the idea.

• Note: All gates are closed.
  Pressing a button activates that gate.
  Pressing another button, deactivates that button which was active and activates the new button.
  The flow doesn't.

So ideally (example) button 1 is turned off if it sees: 2 (or) 3 (or) 4 (or) 5
And button 2 is turned off when it sees" 1 (or) 3 (or) 4 (or) 5

There is a second flow. It works. Slightly better but it has a set of extra function nodes.

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Second flow.

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[drmibell]

@Just-another-pleb, sorry I missed your latest post. I've been busy recovering from an injury and careless about other things. Here are two flows that do what you want or at least the same thing as your second flow. The first generates error messages that you can ignore.

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The second avoids the error messages at the cost of a fairly simple function node.

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This convinces me that with a bit of ingenuity you can generate the messages you need in a flow that is not too messy.

It turns out that allowing multiple synonyms for the control commands would require a significant reworking of the node, both the internal logic and the user interface. Unless more use cases turn up that would really benefit from the feature, I'm not prepared to take that on.

[Just-another-pleb]

Thanks. I've only imported it and looked.

Appreciated the effort you put in the reply.

Hope all goes well with getting better. Injuries are not fun.

P.S.
I like how you did it. Sneaky. ;)