node-red-contrib-cron-plus

node-red-contrib-cron-plus

A flexible scheduler node for Node-RED (incl Timezone support)

FEATURES

• Schedule by CRON, date and date sequences
  • Human readable descriptions of your CRON expression are provided as you type.
• Send timestamp, string, number, boolean, flow variable, global variable, JSON, Buffer or Env variable as the output.
• Settable output variable (normally msg.payload but it is up to you)
• Multiple schedules can be entered by the UI
• Additional info about the triggered scedule is always send in msg.cronplus
• Ability to add, remove, list, stop, start, pause schedules by a payload input permitting full flexability & dynamic control
• Full demo flow provided in node-red editors menu > import > examples.
• Optional timezone setting suppoting UTC and Region/Area (e.g. Europe/London)

Install

• Easiest...

  Use the Manage Palette > Install option from the menu inside node-red

• Harder__

  Alternatively in your Node-RED user directory, typically ~/.node-red, run Run the following command in the root directory of your Node-RED install. (Usually this is ~/.node-red or %userprofile%\.node-red).

  Install from GIT

  npm install Steve-Mcl/node-red-contrib-cron-plus
  

  Install from NPM

  npm install node-red-contrib-cron-plus 
  

  Alternatively, install from a folder

  npm install c:/tempfolder/node-red-contrib-cron-plus
  

  Or simply copy the folder node-red-contrib-cron-plus into a folder named nodes inside your node-red folder then cd into nodes/node-red-contrib-cron-plus and execute npm install

Acknowledgments

• Inspired by node-red-contrib-cron

Dependencies

• cronosjs
• cronstrue
• pretty-ms