I'm using Node Red for to take a RESTful POST output and parse it out to various "edit entity nodes". I thought everything was working fine, but recently notices some "State must be defined" errors. They come and go as the inject post a REST query. Not sure why.
this a a small sample of the rest calls I'm making to bring the devices REST points into Node RED.
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