# Auto click button on Dashboard-ui
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/auto-click-button-on-dashboard-ui/42120
**Category:** Dashboard
**Created:** [5 March 2021 20:53 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/auto-click-button-on-dashboard-ui/42120 "2021-03-05T20:53:03Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@justsimo](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/justsimo)
#### Post date: [5 March 2021 20:53 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/auto-click-button-on-dashboard-ui/42120/1 "2021-03-05T20:53:03Z")
Hi y'all, i hope you can help me.
I have my 'node-red-node-ui-microphone' set on my dashboard and i'd like to "autoclick" it every 5 seconds. How can i click 'Start' and then stop it after 5 seconds (then restart it again)?
I'd like to have a 5 seconds' rec, 5 seconds pause and then restart another registration.
This registration will go in my 'Speech to text' node (IBM Watson)
I don't know how to do because Microphone-ui doesn't have input wire. Should i use Javascript or something like that?
At the end: i need a loop but this loop must be on clicking the button every 5 secs (i cant use inject or something like that ☹ )
Thank you so much! I hope you get my problem or i'll try to explain it better 🙂
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### Author:  [@zenofmud](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/zenofmud)
#### Post date: [5 March 2021 21:51 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/auto-click-button-on-dashboard-ui/42120/2 "2021-03-05T21:51:31Z")
Currently there is no way to do that in a flow with that node.
If you need longer recording, there is a beta node that you might be able to use [node-red-contrib-sox-utils](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/update-node-red-contrib-sox-utils-beta-0-4-5/40017)
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### Author:  [@linhtranvu](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/linhtranvu)
#### Post date: [6 March 2021 02:20 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/auto-click-button-on-dashboard-ui/42120/3 "2021-03-06T02:20:56Z")
This could be done with js
Create a temple node and write js target microphone dom. It has a node-id attribute so you could easily find DOM and emulate its action inside a setInterval function
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### Author:  [@zenofmud](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/zenofmud)
#### Post date: [6 March 2021 08:47 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/auto-click-button-on-dashboard-ui/42120/4 "2021-03-06T08:47:37Z")
Maybe, give it a try.
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### Author:  [@justsimo](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/justsimo)
#### Post date: [6 March 2021 13:02 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/auto-click-button-on-dashboard-ui/42120/5 "2021-03-06T13:02:58Z")
Could you help me with this? Should i take an inject and wire it with template node?
Then i should put something like this `setTimeout(document.getElementByID('ui_microphone').click(),5000);` ?
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### Author:  [@justsimo](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/justsimo)
#### Post date: [6 March 2021 14:09 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/auto-click-button-on-dashboard-ui/42120/6 "2021-03-06T14:09:50Z")
There is a way to put an input to a node even if it doesnt have it?
Like Microphone-ui doesn't have input, i would use it just for looping it every 5 seconds.
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### Author:  [@zenofmud](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/zenofmud)
#### Post date: [6 March 2021 17:37 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/auto-click-button-on-dashboard-ui/42120/7 "2021-03-06T17:37:46Z")
What part of my first reply did you not understand?
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### Author:  [@linhtranvu](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/linhtranvu)
#### Post date: [8 March 2021 04:10 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/auto-click-button-on-dashboard-ui/42120/8 "2021-03-08T04:10:43Z")
Just write directly in template node (template UI node) with tag
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### Author:  [@justsimo](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/justsimo)
#### Post date: [8 March 2021 19:00 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/auto-click-button-on-dashboard-ui/42120/9 "2021-03-08T19:00:54Z")
I tried like this:
```auto
```
What i'm doing wrong? i put \