# Rate limit messages with Join

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/rate-limit-messages-with-join/44491>\
**Category:** Dashboard\
**Created:** [21 April 2021 09:12 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/rate-limit-messages-with-join/44491 "2021-04-21T09:12:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![lyred](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ccd318/32.png) [@lyred](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/lyred)\
**Post date:** [21 April 2021 09:12 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/rate-limit-messages-with-join/44491/1 "2021-04-21T09:12:13Z")

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Good morning;

as you can see in the photo, I have a **modbus** that reads the data every 5 seconds, and a **timestamp** to inject other data, At the end I have a " **Join**" to format this data in order to send them by **SMS.**

The problem I have is that whenever the **modbus** reads the data the **join** sends the **sms** , I want the reverse... let **modbus** read the data and every time I click on **timestamp** the message has to be sent.

I want to replace the timestamp with an **insms** so that every time I receive a message, the nodes respond with another message

I tried to use rate limit but i couldn't.

any idea Please !!

 ![join](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/3X/5/c/5c3e6bfb1b1a936f37a2249011d47d138b23f23f.png)

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**Author:** ![E1cid](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/e1cid/32/77971_2.png) [@E1cid](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/E1cid)\
**Post date:** [21 April 2021 09:18 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/rate-limit-messages-with-join/44491/2 "2021-04-21T09:18:07Z")

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Hard to tell anything from an image, but is the join set to every Subsequent message, if so try unchecking that setting and have the join send only on count of 4 messages.

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**Author:** ![lyred](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ccd318/32.png) [@lyred](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/lyred)\
**Post date:** [21 April 2021 09:29 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/rate-limit-messages-with-join/44491/3 "2021-04-21T09:29:18Z")

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thanks it work, i just unchecked a subsequent message

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**Author:** ![bagginstyrone](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/bagginstyrone/32/40226_2.png) [@bagginstyrone](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/bagginstyrone)\
**Post date:** [21 April 2021 11:05 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/rate-limit-messages-with-join/44491/4 "2021-04-21T11:05:46Z")

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@lyred I also have a modbus that records data. I think our project seems matches with each others. I was facing same error during last week so kind of you for discuses here this error. 🙂

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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:** [5 May 2021 11:06 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/rate-limit-messages-with-join/44491/5 "2021-05-05T11:06:16Z")

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