Saving a msg.payload and than comparing the new msg with same topic later on

[Samokomo]

Hello NodeRed community!

I am still kinda NodeRed newbie and I would appriciate some help here.

My situation is:

My messages from devices are identified via msg.topic which equals to mac address of particular device.
I want to store msg.payload.interface (one of payloads attributes) latest value. When new msg with same topic arrives, I need to compare its interface value with stored (latest) value.

Basically I need to evaluate if msg.payload.interface has changed for same topic. Any tips how to do this in steamless fashion?

Thanks!

[dceejay]

The Filter/RBE node can be set to handle multiple topics - so if the payload isn't too complicated it can probably handle it... but if any other values of the payload change then you would need to do an extra step - eg use a change node to set msg.interface to msg.payload.interface and then send to the filter and test msg.interface.

[E1cid]

Or you can store the value you wish in a context var, then compare then store new to context.
e.g.

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