# Need assistance with gauge animation
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/need-assistance-with-gauge-animation/45266
**Category:** General
**Created:** [6 May 2021 12:08 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/need-assistance-with-gauge-animation/45266 "2021-05-06T12:08:01Z")
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### Author:  [@SplitSecComp](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/SplitSecComp)
#### Post date: [6 May 2021 12:08 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/need-assistance-with-gauge-animation/45266/1 "2021-05-06T12:08:01Z")
Hi.
I am running your canvass gauges in Node-Red dashboard in a template node. The gauges display 100% but I am unable to get the animation/needle to work.
Can you kindly help me with an example code on how to get the msg.payload to animate the gauge needle and/or set a variable that can do that.
The following is the HTML code in the example. I need to modify this to work with msg.payload.
var timers = ;
function animateGauges() {
document.gauges.forEach(function(gauge) {
timers.push(setInterval(function() {
gauge.value = Math.random() \*
(gauge.options.maxValue - gauge.options.minValue) +
gauge.options.minValue;
}, gauge.animation.duration + 50));
});
}
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [5 July 2021 12:08 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/need-assistance-with-gauge-animation/45266/2 "2021-07-05T12:08:19Z")
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