Conversion does not work for me?

[Gawan]

Hi,

i am reading several float values from Global and add them up in parameter payload:

var v1 =  global.get('V.S.Power')||0; 
var v2 =  global.get('V.N.Power')||0; 
var v3 =  global.get('V.O.Power')||0;

msg.payload =  v1 + v2 + v3;

To get a nice value for my Dashboard I try to convert the value to an INT:

msg.payload = parseInt(msg.payload);

But no matter what I try, I always get a FLOAT value instead of an INT ... showing dozens of digits behind the coma
What am I doing wrong ?

BR
Gawander

[Steve-Mcl]

Do you return the msg after setting payload?

[Gawan]

Yes, I return two msg-Objects:

return [msg,msg2];

I pass the msg to a dashboard text Node using {{msg.payload}}

[edje11]

Try .toFixed(0);

msg.payload = parseInt(msg.payload).toFixed(0);

[E1cid]

I suspect you are returning an array to the text display in the dashboard
ie. [7, 12345]
can we see a debug of the function output?

[Steve-Mcl]

@Gawan

Yes, I return two msg-Objects:

return [msg,msg2];

And what is in msg2?
Do you have 2 outputs on the function?
which msg (msg or msg2) is the one going to this dashboard item?

[Gawan]

msg2 is another value but is independent, ignore it

yes, I have 2 outputs, the first one (msg) goes to the dashboard, ignore msg2

[Colin]

Put a debug node on the output going to the ui node and show us what it says.