# Node-red-contrib-looptimer-advanced use with dashboard text node

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-contrib-looptimer-advanced-use-with-dashboard-text-node/57481>\
**Category:** General\
**Tags:** node-red-dashboard\
**Created:** [30 January 2022 03:01 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-contrib-looptimer-advanced-use-with-dashboard-text-node/57481 "2022-01-30T03:01:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![martin8094](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bcef8e/32.png) [@martin8094](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/martin8094)\
**Post date:** [30 January 2022 03:01 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-contrib-looptimer-advanced-use-with-dashboard-text-node/57481/1 "2022-01-30T03:01:26Z")

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Hi,

I wanted to see if I could get some help with the configuration of node-red-contrib-looptimer-advanced and trigger node with dashboard text input nodes.

I am trying to use two dashboard text input nodes to change the "Loop every time" of the looptimer and the delay time of a subsequent trigger node.

I have spent hours trying to figure out how to configure the ON time and OFF time test nodes, but have not been able to get them to work. I have tried setting the "ON time" node to msg.loop.duration but this reboots node red everytime the node is used.

I have attached the flow below and would really appriciate some help with setting up the "ON Time" and "OFF Time" nodes.

[flows.json](https://discourse.nodered.org/uploads/short-url/ohHOljXBhW4t6lCL4WNRsXqb5CG.json) (5.5 KB)

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/1X/d073cd938eafa2e558d7c2cd59003b3ef4963033.png) [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [31 March 2022 03:02 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-contrib-looptimer-advanced-use-with-dashboard-text-node/57481/2 "2022-03-31T03:02:16Z")

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