Hello, i need help with the Counter. I want to count a GPIO input and the data get send to iobroker. So far so good. [Zwischenablage01] Everytime i resart the node the counter starts at 0 again, but i want to continue with the previos amount. Can anyone help me?

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Which option have you selected when you press on the little arrow in the deploy button to open the dropdown? [image] If you have selected Full it will be reset every time you deploy as all nodes will be redeployed every time with this option independent of if they have changed or not. The second …

@JGKK Thank you that is part of a Solution. I did not know that. Thank you But is it posibble to store that number in a file?

Yes you could do something like this: [Screenshot 2020-06-19 at 08.54.00] [{"id":"81f8fc1d.e30aa8","type":"inject","z":"7df8e457.799894","name":"increment","topic":"","payload":"","payloadType":"date","repeat":"","crontab":"","once":false,"onceDelay":0.1,"x":600,"y":1100,"wires":[["708f5a99.58ff2…

@JGKK Thank you that is working just fine for me. I changed the file path and it´s working. [image] JGKK: The more elegant approach would be to set up persistent storage that saves context to the file system and save the count to a flow variable instead of writing it to a file and injecting t…

[image] kxn25: I quite did´nt under stand that part, but it works. As I said 3 days ago.. [image] Paul-Reed: Have you setup a file-system context data store ?

[image] Paul-Reed: Have you setup a file-system context data store ? No i havn´t. I am reading it now how to do so. I understand that i need to do so, if i want to store other counters, correct?

[image] kxn25: I understand that i need to do so, if i want to store other counters, correct? It is the correct way to save & retrieve counters and other data to/from disk, instead of memory.

Is that correct so? [Zwischenablage01] It saves the Count in that file and read´s it.

Ok i now have a context system. I changed the setting.js and enabled Context. Now where or how do i set it to store it in my /home/pi/count.txt? Or how do i go about creating a file for the count to store? And how do i work with the counter when i have to count a 1/1000 of it. When i set step t…

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Paul-Reed 13 July 2020 09:11 24

Please recheck your last post, you haven't posted the full flow... also before going back & editing it, please read and use this post - How to share code or flow json otherwise nobody will be able to examine your problem.

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