Beginner's question: different colors in a dashboard chart widget. Just for (self-)educational purposes, I tied two dashboard slider widgets to one chart widget. This works fine (even though it has no practical value: I realize that). The reason I did this was to test the chart's ability to (acco…

Are you sure the topic is setup correctly as it works fine for me ? Note topic should be set to text(az) the default is msg and needs to be changed. [image]

Looks like a bug to me. Edit: No it doesn't! Deleted post.

Your suggestion made me try to simply "change" the msg (even though you mentioned of just doing that wouldn't work), like this: [image] And now I DO indeed get two colors ... but now the chart behaves weird, in fact I sometimes see a third color (orange)! I may have to play with the chart setting…

have a look at this post: [image] Zigbee2mqtt Aquara triple Sensors WSDCGQ11LM (temp, humidity, pressure) - 2 sensor test-flow Share Your Projects I have added min-max values to the flow which is very usefull in sensor use cases. Reset of min max is set to occur on midnig…

It never occurred to me to set msg.topic after the sliders! I was focussed on the strange misbehaviour of the slider node.

Last night I'm sure it was ignoring flow/global context values but I can't replicate that now. The work-around above shows all the symptoms of being a product of 3am insomnia ie it's rubbish!

Note topic should be set to text(az) the default is msg and needs to be changed. THAT was it! I had tried with Topic: msg. msg.topic. and msg.topic = , but it never occurred to me to just use a string! Thanks!

No problem. The other options, such as msg.(someProperty) are there so the topic can be provided dynamically.

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Different colors in a dashboard chart widget, with two sliders as input

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Different colors in a dashboard chart widget, with two sliders as input

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