Forced initialisation

[Surefire01]

Chaps
Was wondering how to automatically force an initialisation of a flow after deployment. My flow won't function correctly until I enter information by moving a slider in the dashboard which then sends data to a function node which then uses this data to produce an output.

Thanks

[Colin]

You can use an Inject node set to fire on startup to inject an appropriate initial value into the flow.

[TotallyInformation]

As Colin says, this indicates that you are not initialising your value. You should, in general, never make an assumption about the front-end (Dashboard in your case). You should always initialise all values to something sensible and/or to whatever value was last provided. That last part might need you to save the data to a flow/global variable that you read on startup or alternatively, you could use an MQTT topic with the retained flag and a suitable subscription.

[Surefire01]

Thanks for the advice chaps. Will look into the suggested options.