I've setup this group of nodes/flows to process MQTT and Dashboard payloads for smart sockets running Tasmota. Now I'd like to clone the group for each different socket without having to edit all the nodes. I've tried to minimize the amount of editing needed (only the 3 nodes named 'edit') but at this time each dashboard node also has to be assigned to a group manually (at least I don't know how else to do it) and if I want to add items to the Vehicle dropdown then I have to do that for each socket. Any suggestions on how to streamline this more? If I use a subflow, I'm not sure how to handle the dashboard nodes. I originally did not plan for the dashboard nodes but added them as a way to learn how they work so I'm quite tempted to remove them, that would basically solve my inquiry.
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