Insert variable into a change node

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This is Home Assistant related, but I believe someone here may be able to help. I found similar question on here, but it dealth with a http response.

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When I change brightness slider, the event state node is triggered and the number is put into msg.payload.

I use the change node to move the number value in msg.payload into msg.brightness

What I then want in the change node labeled 22 is to input that msg.brightness value here:

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But when I try that and check the debug, it just sends {{brightness}} instead of the number value. So it will send this…
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When I want it to send this (assuming brightness slider was set to 99)
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I would recommend to go through the documentation and specifically how to work with messages.

You are trying to make a new object by using a change node and setting it to text with a new message, this is not how it works (well i guess it could be done in some way, but this is complicating things).

There are multiple ways to do this, create a new object with a change node by means of specifying each property, using jsonata or with a function node. I think a function node will be the easiest.

example in a function node:

let input_brightness = msg.brightness

msg.payload = {args:[{brightness:input_brightness}]} // build your new object here

return msg
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This seems like a template node will do the job.
e.g.

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Then just use msg.payload from the dropdown.

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