Hi, I have a template node to display video from uv4l Inside it the following code works: Now, I want to replace the fixed IP address inside src with the one obtain from hostIP node I placed the following code inside the template node:

thanks, i have found the solution: <iframe id="myFrame" width="640" height="480" src = ""></iframe> <script> (function(scope) { // watch msg object from Node-RED scope.$watch('msg', function(msg) { // new message received var x = document.getElementById('myFrame'); x…

where is the code ? :slight_smile:

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[{"id":"3aa66755.4eb88","type":"ui_template","z":"17fd675a.21c6a9","group":"cab0f2f3.38805","name":"Display image","order":1,"width":"12","height":"12","format":"<script id=\"VScript\" type=\"text/javascript\">\n$('#VFrame').src = \"http://\"+ msg.payload +\"/stream\";\n</script>\n\n<iframe id=\"VFr…

How to code the template node to pass the IP address? (currently is hard-coded) [{"id":"17fd675a.21c6a9","type":"tab","label":"IoBees_00","disabled":false,"info":""},{"id":"3aa66755.4eb88","type":"ui_template","z":"17fd675a.21c6a9","group":"cab0f2f3.38805","name":"Display image","order":1,"width":"…

you need to put {{ }} around the variable like {{msg.payload}}

I did it now, still doesn't work <iframe id="VFrame" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" src = ""> </iframe> <script id="VScript" type="text/javascript"> $('#VFrame').src = "http://"+ {{msg.payload}} +"/stream"; </script>

The following code works: (but has a hard-coded IP address) <iframe id="VFrame" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" src = "http://192.168.1.8:8080/stream"> </iframe> I need to insert the IP address as it will be different for different RPi, so the value "192.168.1.8" has to be taken from host…

You can use an exec node with a command like ifconfig wlan0 |grep netmask |sed 's/.*inet $[^ ]*$.*/\1/'

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.Please read the following post How to share code or flow json

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