completely puzzeled and hoping someone could point me in the right direction. i receive a mqtt message which is converted in an json object. the actual mqtt is a frigate/events message, and the son object has a "camera" and "id" i want to use these two values to compile a video filename:. http:/…

Welcome to the forum @patfee . If you are an absolute beginner with node-red then start by watching the node-red essentials videos. Then to help with the first requirement of building the filename read the Working with Messages page from the docs. To work towards solving your problem start at the …

thats exactly my problem "statically" it works with the following flow but I can't figure out how to compile the filename. don't see how I could use the filename either? <[{"id":"6eaaeada.8cda3c","type":"mqtt in","z":"ed123003.62d77","name":"frigate/events","topic":"frigate/events","qos":"2","data…

Please see this post for how to paste a flow here, so that it can easily be imported. You can edit your previous post to fix the problem. [image] How to share code or flow json FAQs To share code samples or flow json in this forum, you need to take care to format it prope…

Also, did you watch the videos, read the page I linked to and look at the help text for template node? I don't see a template node in your flow. If you tell the mqtt node to parse the data as JSON then you can remove the JSON node.

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Please see this post for how to paste a flow here, so that it can easily be imported. You can edit your previous post to fix the problem.

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