But I can see that changing the default automatically to be broker name would muck up some peoples existing flows visually so that's why I'm suggesting adding a checkbox [image]

Not seeing how it would be useful for dynamic ones - isn't the point of them to change them while the flows running? Node name can't be updated during flow execution - only at deployment

If the list of available configs were alphabetical so that your broker named (for example) 1: local broker (default) would appear before 2: test broker - would that be a reasonable workaround? I seem to remember some request for the config nodes to be presented alphabetically (but I cant remember w…

[image] Steve-Mcl: If the list of available configs were alphabetical so that your broker named (for example) 1: local broker (default) would appear before 2: test broker - would that be a reasonable workaround? ??? I'm just after the node name being populated by the broker name without havi…

I misunderstand your request since the name of the broker is auto generated from the host and port ( when displayed in the config drop down) so long as it's name is empty. I thought you wanted a default broker to be chosen upon adding an MQTT node to the editor. Ps, now I understand, I don't think …

We today communicate well not :slight_smile:

I've added a "the" to the title :slight_smile: [Add checkbox to default the MQTT node name to broker name]

[image] Steve-Mcl: Maybe an alternative solution would be to auto display the broker name if the name of the MQTT out is explicitly left empty and no topic is set. [image] cymplecy: But I can see that changing the default automatically to be broker name would muck up some peoples existing…

I, for one, would not use the proposed feature. I set my Out node names to that of the device that's in the topic but that would be messy to do by default.

The suggestion is to have a little checkbox to save typing the broker name when you want the node to show which broker it's connected to If left unchecked then it would behave as it does now

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Add checkbox to default the MQTT node name to broker name

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Add checkbox to default the MQTT node name to broker name

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