Please Add Delay & Push Button Support

Ideas / Suggestions
1

I need a button work temporarly with a delay,

                 Push   ---- ON for 200MS then auto turns off

Setting up a trigger to turn it off works to some degree but it will delay randomly and for the amount of time it takes to turn off it could be 2 to 10 seconds which doens’t work very well.

Some people might want a switch that activates for a small window of time, maybe to open a garage door half way or soemthing that tight timimg is crutial. For myself I have a arduino program that i need a short button press for and cayenne just doesn’t cut it.

2

This can be done with user code on the Arduino or ESP, or with MQTT on the Raspberry Pi.

For Arduino, check out this post.

A pushbutton widget would be nice, but the functionality to turn off the momentary should always be controlled at the local level.

Cheers,

Craig

3

Couldn’t figure it so I ended up making a little bit of code on a Arduino nano to do it for me, here it is for anyne needing something, code is a little basic but it does the trick.

const int buttonPin = 2;
const int Pulse = 3;

int buttonState = 1;

void setup(){
Serial.begin(9600);
//Monitor Serial
pinMode(Pulse, OUTPUT);
pinMode(buttonPin, INPUT);
digitalWrite(buttonPin,HIGH);
}

void loop() {

while(a<10){
digitalWrite(2,HIGH);
delay(1000);
digitalWrite(2,LOW);
delay(1000);
}

buttonState = digitalRead(buttonPin);

  if(buttonState == LOW){
    delay(50);
    
  digitalWrite(Pulse, HIGH);
  delay(200);
  
  digitalWrite(Pulse,LOW);
  delay(200);

  }

}

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