Holding Array, how to do it?

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Hello, I am newbie at Node Red, I create a project with modbus TCP, and I was tried to get the array with sampling poll 5 second. I would like to make a notification when any changed of value from my array. The notification only allowed when any value change from 0 to 1 or from 1 to 0. Could you help me please?

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For a dashboard notification, use the ui notification node. For a mobile alert, you could use telegram or email node etc.

For determining the change of an array element, this will get you started...

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PS, the above code is an export of the demo flow in the picture. To use it, press CTRL-I in the node-red editor to import it.

Lastly, as a newbie to node-red, I recommend watching this playlist: Node-RED Essentials. The videos are done by the developers of node-red. They're nice & short and to the point. You will understand a whole lot more in about 1 hour.

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it work, but the output from your function is not array, how to make the output an array?

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You should really have made that clear in your post.

So the function I provided sends a message for each change. It is a simple matter of NOT sending the message but instead return the original msg which has the new values already.

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new function code...

const currentData = msg.payload;
if (currentData && Array.isArray(currentData)) {
    var previousData = context.get("data") || [];
    context.set("data", currentData)
    for (let index = 0; index < currentData.length; index++) {
        const curVal = currentData[index];
        const prevVal = previousData[index];
        if(curVal !== prevVal) {
            return msg;
        }
    }
}
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Thank you, it works

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