Dashboard Template Colors Not Updating as Expected

General
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I am working on a project that will eventually use a Raspberry Pi to start and stop my generator via relays on the fuel and starter solenoids. I have a basic POC working on my desk. I need to still work out the final logic. I built a simple dashboard with switches that control the relays and Indicator templates that I want the color to toggle between green (on) and red (off). The problem is that the "Starter Solenoid" switch changes all of them. The other switches don't change anything. I am not sure why. Here is the flow. I am mainly focused on the switches for now and why they aren't changing the indicator templates. One thing I noticed in the debug output is

debug2 is connected to the change nodes to the Starter solenoid switch.

debug1 is connected to the change nodes for the Fuel solenoid switch. So it seems that those change nodes are sending the full object. I am not sure why.

11/27/2024, 11:11:44 AMnode: debug 2
msg.payload : string[3]
"red"
11/27/2024, 11:12:02 AMnode: debug 1
msg : Object
{ payload: "red", socketid: "Z7vRtpSJMDLr4w5LAAAp", _msgid: "e6620f37f7a4af03" }

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        "disabled": false,
        "info": ""
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        "id": "32cfb89af08b6c76",
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        "style": {
            "stroke": "#999999",
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            "label-position": "nw",
            "color": "#a4a4a4"
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2

Welcome to the forum @crokett

I believe that the difference in format there is because you have debug 1 configured to Output Complete Message, but debug 2 is configured to Output msg.payload.

The technique to use to investigate problems like this is to add debug nodes so that you can work out exactly where the problem appears. So in this particular case you have identified the issue:

So add a debug node to the output of the switch and make sure that the output is what you expect, then add a debug to the output of each node that the switch feeds and check that they are what you expect, and so on. At some point you will find a node that is misbehaving. If you can't work out why then show us what is going into the node, what is coming out, and how you have configured it.

3

Thanks. I changed the debug1 node to complete object.

I added debug nodes to the dashboard switches. they output the expected 'true' or 'false' values:

debug node for Fuel Solenoid when switched on:
{"payload":false,"socketid":"YtwJcdJHhAbZKB3_AAAB","_msgid":"6676a6209ad20aaf"}

debug node for starter solenoid when switched on:
{"payload":false,"socketid":"YtwJcdJHhAbZKB3_AAAB","_msgid":"b923ab5d2fec5b64"}

the correct 'true' value comes out when they are switched off.

those each feed separate switch nodes (not Dashboard UI nodes) but each of those nodes is configured like this:

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those work as expected, they feed change nodes (one for each output on each switch node, so 4 change nodes) that change the msg.payload to either green or red. from the debug node attached to each change node, that works as in I am getting the expected values.

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those in turn feed separate template nodes, configured like this:

<div id="indicator"></div>

<style>
    #indicator {
        width: 15px;
        height: 15px;
        background-color: {{msg.payload}};
       
        border-radius: 50%;
        margin: auto;
    }
</style>

I do find with debug nodes attached to the template nodes, that the Fuel solenoid template node receives the correct message when the fuel solenoid switch in the UI is toggled, but it does not change color:

{"payload":"red","socketid":"YtwJcdJHhAbZKB3_AAAB","_msgid":"80237988cd8695a2"}

It does NOT receive a message (no debug output) when the starter solenoid switch in the UI is toggled, but it still changes color. For that matter, I have a template node that is not currently wired to anything yet, and it also changes color when the starter solenoid switch is toggled.. I verified this by removing the wires from the change nodes to the fuel Solenoid indicator template node and it also changed color when the starter solenoid switch is toggled.

4

I figured out why it is happening, not sure what to do about it yet. I have several template nodes set up as indicators. NodeRed is changing the background color on all of them to the same color, not treating them as individual nodes. I created a new one and specified a color and they all changed to that color. So I need to figure out how to get around that (or use something else to indicate on or off)