Hello, in the influxdb node, you have to manually type the measurement name. I am able to extract the value and the value name from an array. I was wondering if I could also pass the value name into the influxdb node thus not requiring manual input on the measurement name.

Does it work if you use a measurement name without spaces? What version of influxdb are you using?

Welcome subwayfootlong! Do you know this thread? [image] Write many values for the same time with nodered in influxdb General With the standard influx node, if I pass for (let i=0; i<sensors.length; i++) timea.push(new Date().getTime()+i); // microsec…

[image] subwayfootlong: I was wondering if I could also pass the value name into the influxdb You can pass the measurement name in the message. Read the help text for the influx node.

Ok maybe I'm looking into this all wrongly. Here is the json format of what the sensor is outputting [{"name":"BRTC CISS Sensor 004_Humidity","description":"","unit":"% rH","values":[{"value":60.96,"timestamp":"2021-05-20T06:27:14.265Z"}]}] Currently, I'm using a function node to extract the va…

Whenever you have an unexpected error from a node the first thing to do is to connect a debug node showing what is going into the node. So connect a debug node to the output of your function and set it to Show Complete Message and check what it shows. Screenshot it here if you think it looks ok. …

[Screenshot 2021-05-20 165147] I am using the influxdb out node from the node-red-contrib-influxdb pallete

You were right! The measurement name cant have spaces.... I totally forgot about the fundamentals. Thanks Colin

[image] subwayfootlong: The measurement name cant have spaces In fact I believe that you should be able to have spaces in the measurement name, but Influx has been a bit flaky in the past with them (perhaps even in v2.0, I don't know). I just don't use spaces, using underscore instead.

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Passing 2 values into single influxdb node

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Welcome subwayfootlong!

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