"Are you sure?", confirm an action triggered on the Dashboard with whatsapp. Whin use case.

README.md

On this flow you will see how to get a whatsapp with two buttons (yes / no) that will ask you for confirmation before a kill switch on you node-red Dashboard changes state.

It is useful if your node-red dashboard has a switch that triggers an automation, and you don't want it to happen without your active action.

This example is an alternative to a pop-up message shown on the dashboard which was the original solution suggested on the community forum.

You can see a demo of the flow running here: https://youtu.be/ePGRRq4VTz4

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This flow is inspired on this thread: https://discourse.nodered.org/t/are-you-sure-pop-ups/13458/25; it is an alternative implementation using node-red-contrib-whin nodes.

Feb-2022 by inUntil

flow.json

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