Gpio: passing pin through msg.topic not working

General
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Hi,

I am using node-red-node-pi-gpio nodes to control solid state relays, which is all working fine when I assign the pin through the gpio node.

I am wanting to assign the pin to use through msg.topic. The docs on the page say to use msg.topic = "pi/{pin number}"

So I am sending through msg.topic = "pi/37", but it does not use the pin.

In fact it always uses the design-assigned gpio pin and not the pin assigned through msg.topic

12 Nov 08:22:52 - [info] Node-RED version: v1.2.3
12 Nov 08:22:52 - [info] Node.js version: v12.19.0
12 Nov 08:22:52 - [info] Linux 4.19.66-v7+ arm LE

Ant other details required?

Function code:

msg.topic = "pi/37";

node.log(msg.payload);
node.log(msg.topic);

return msg;

Flow below

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Hi - where does the help say that ? It says that for the input pin the topic is set to that - but not for the output pin. You cannot allocate the output pin dynamically.

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Wow, thanks for the fast response.

Ahh, ok. That makes sense now I read the help page again.
Looks like the gpiod add-on has the same design.

Are there any methods to dynamically assign the GPIO pin on output commands?

The reason I ask is that I am designing some brewing control software and want to provide users the ability to assign their own pins. At this stage I will have to tell them which pins to wire up for the various sub-systems

Thanks,
Angus.

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The latest version of the node does have a text pin field below the picker
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which can accept the ${MY_VAR} environment variable syntax which can then be assigned by environment variables outside of Node-RED (presuming you don't want to give them access to the flow editor)

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