Hi, I want to write some data to InfluxDB. Everything works fine but now i want to write some tags instead of a fixed input. I've got the following but node red see it as text and not a var. [Function] It's propably something simple but i'm kinda new in this and just learning. Thanks at advanc…

OK, in that case you need something like this var counter=flow.get('count'); var text=flow.get('text'); msg.payload = [ { measurement: "Test", fields: { }, timestamp: new Date() } ]; msg.payload[0].fields[text] = counter return msg; However, it seems odd to…

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bakman2 17 April 2020 10:20 2

Please export your flow again, read this post and edit your post.

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Adding a var in msg.payload

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