I would like to include the value of a slider in a function

kieron1 · 17 August 2022 09:25

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Background: Water flow sensor that pulls the pin high in pulses.
Counts the pulses untill it reaches a set limit then send 0 to a pin

The inject node is just simulating a pulse
I have the raspberry pi nodes installed

I have this working code but the only way i can edit the if (msgCount = 500) is by editing the function. I would like the number (500) to be editable by a slider on the UI

I am sorry if this is formatted wrong. This is my first post

jbudd · 17 August 2022 09:41

Hi @kieron1.

You are already saving the number of messages received as a context variable context.msgCount.
Why not store the slider value in a flow level variable flow.msgLimit?

let msgLimit = flow.get("msgLimit") || 500;

kieron1 · 17 August 2022 09:55

Could you post the code to the edited flow please? I really appreciate your help.

kieron1 · 17 August 2022 10:06

I am trying to implement it but I am finding it hard to put everything in the right place

kieron1 · 17 August 2022 10:07

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This is what I have tried

jbudd · 17 August 2022 10:13

OK ...

The Slider outputs it's value in msg.payload, so you need to set flow.msgLimit from that, not from msg.limit (which as far as I can see does not exist).

You can set the minimum and maximum Slider values, maybe 1 to 500 is better than 0 to 10.

Set the slider to output a value only on release.

kieron1 · 17 August 2022 10:22

What do I set to the value? and also it this function ok?

jbudd · 17 August 2022 10:41

Your function looks ok at first glance.

kieron1 · 17 August 2022 10:47

I had a space in-between msg and Limit

Thankyou for your help today! All works successfully

system · 31 August 2022 10:47

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