# Status Node - how does it work?

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/status-node-how-does-it-work/27551>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [31 May 2020 01:56 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/status-node-how-does-it-work/27551 "2020-05-31T01:56:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![Peter\_Truman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b38774/32.png) [@Peter\_Truman](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Peter_Truman)\
**Post date:** [31 May 2020 01:56 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/status-node-how-does-it-work/27551/1 "2020-05-31T01:56:02Z")

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Hi all, New guy here - so please be gentle 🙂

I'm very new at this so probably a silly question but... I'm having trouble getting the Status node to work.

I have a flow with 1 injector (named Test\_inj), 1 status node and 2 debug nodes (one each for the output from the injector and the status node) - I will try and post the flow here (first time)

In the status node I have selected to report status from Test\_inj and in its associated debug node I have selected to output the complete msg object.

When I deploy I can see the debug output from the Test\_inj node but I get nothing from the Status node?

My guess is that this should be something very simple - so obviously, I'm missing something. If someone could point me in the right direction I would be very grateful.

> Blockquote  
> 31/05/2020, 11:43:24[node: Dbg\_Inj](http://192.168.15.16:1880/#)String : msg : Object

{ \_msgid: "8201d2d.b3c3e3", topic: "String", payload: "Test Inject" }

> Blockquote  
> 'I'm sorry, I have no idea how to post the status node - since it has no apparent output?

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**Author:** ![Peter\_Truman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b38774/32.png) [@Peter\_Truman](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Peter_Truman)\
**Post date:** [31 May 2020 01:58 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/status-node-how-does-it-work/27551/2 "2020-05-31T01:58:16Z")

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Ah - perhaps this is how I post the flow?

> Blockquote  
> [{"id":"2f2f6320.3a495c","type":"tab","label":"Flow 2","disabled":false,"info":""},{"id":"2246a973.bde196","type":"inject","z":"2f2f6320.3a495c","name":"Test\_inj","topic":"String","payload":"Test Inject","payloadType":"str","repeat":"","crontab":"","once":false,"onceDelay":0.1,"x":230,"y":140,"wires":[["e96e29e4.fee9c8"]]},{"id":"ec74c5c2.4d9d58","type":"status","z":"2f2f6320.3a495c","name":"Test\_Status","scope":["2246a973.bde196"],"x":250,"y":240,"wires":[["38e283c4.136eac"]]},{"id":"38e283c4.136eac","type":"debug","z":"2f2f6320.3a495c","name":"Dbg\_Status","active":true,"tosidebar":true,"console":false,"tostatus":false,"complete":"true","targetType":"full","x":430,"y":240,"wires":},{"id":"e96e29e4.fee9c8","type":"debug","z":"2f2f6320.3a495c","name":"Dbg\_Inj","active":true,"tosidebar":true,"console":false,"tostatus":false,"complete":"true","targetType":"full","x":400,"y":140,"wires":}]

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**Author:** ![thebaldgeek](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/thebaldgeek/32/93523_2.png) [@thebaldgeek](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/thebaldgeek)\
**Post date:** [31 May 2020 02:47 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/status-node-how-does-it-work/27551/3 "2020-05-31T02:47:45Z")

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This thread is a good description of how the status node works;

> [@Get status under a node](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/get-status-under-a-node/6408):
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> [20190105\_013630] How can I get the status "socket hang up" or "ready" then preform a check if its meeting my criteria. I can't attached a debug because their isn't a output.

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**Author:** ![bakman2](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/bakman2/32/6207_2.png) [@bakman2](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/bakman2)\
**Post date:** [31 May 2020 04:47 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/status-node-how-does-it-work/27551/4 "2020-05-31T04:47:07Z")

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Please export your flow again from node-red, edit your post, click the `</>` button in the editor and paste the flow between the backticks

`````  
your flow code  
`````

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**Author:** ![Peter\_Truman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b38774/32.png) [@Peter\_Truman](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Peter_Truman)\
**Post date:** [31 May 2020 05:25 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/status-node-how-does-it-work/27551/5 "2020-05-31T05:25:41Z")

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Ok - how's that?

```auto
[{"id":"2f2f6320.3a495c","type":"tab","label":"Flow 2","disabled":false,"info":""},{"id":"2246a973.bde196","type":"inject","z":"2f2f6320.3a495c","name":"Test_inj","topic":"String","payload":"Test Inject","payloadType":"str","repeat":"","crontab":"","once":false,"onceDelay":0.1,"x":230,"y":140,"wires":[["e96e29e4.fee9c8"]]},{"id":"ec74c5c2.4d9d58","type":"status","z":"2f2f6320.3a495c","name":"Test_Status","scope":["2246a973.bde196"],"x":250,"y":240,"wires":[["38e283c4.136eac"]]},{"id":"38e283c4.136eac","type":"debug","z":"2f2f6320.3a495c","name":"Dbg_Status","active":true,"tosidebar":true,"console":false,"tostatus":false,"complete":"true","targetType":"full","x":430,"y":240,"wires":[]},{"id":"e96e29e4.fee9c8","type":"debug","z":"2f2f6320.3a495c","name":"Dbg_Inj","active":true,"tosidebar":true,"console":false,"tostatus":false,"complete":"true","targetType":"full","x":400,"y":140,"wires":[]}]

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**Author:** ![JGKK](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/jgkk/32/18515_2.png) [@JGKK](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/JGKK)\
**Post date:** [31 May 2020 07:38 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/status-node-how-does-it-work/27551/6 "2020-05-31T07:38:59Z")

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I think you have a misconception about what the status node does. The status it refers to the text that sometimes appears under certain nodes. Take for an example this microphone node:  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/3X/b/a/ba7090186dc3d96d2edf27a26799e624294a7dd8.jpeg)  
Here it has a status of recording. When you start recording and this changes to recording the status node will give you a msg like this;  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/3X/b/7/b7c8c65ceac3aeb18beebf95b6ecd3cee3556d09.jpeg)  
So as the inject node doesn’t display its status you can’t get any feedback from the status node about it.

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**Author:** ![Peter\_Truman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b38774/32.png) [@Peter\_Truman](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Peter_Truman)\
**Post date:** [1 June 2020 00:59 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/status-node-how-does-it-work/27551/7 "2020-06-01T00:59:40Z")

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Hmmn. Ok - understood.

So I changed the status node to reflect the status of an email out node - which clearly has 'sending' shown underneath (as well as a few other experiments). I have the debug node set to show the whole msg but I'm still getting the same result - see below. Obviously, I'm still missing something?

Thanks for your help - I appreciate it (and learning lots)

```auto
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1","rules":[{"t":"change","p":"payload","pt":"msg","from":"On","fromt":"str","to":"1","tot":"str"}],"action":"","property":"","from":"","to":"","reg":false,"x":370,"y":80,"wires":[["784fbae.1329d44","11a8e39c.f4df0c"]]},{"id":"1a095357.07444d","type":"change","z":"d0a0c3ed.6a34b","name":"Chg Off 2 0","rules":[{"t":"change","p":"payload","pt":"msg","from":"Off","fromt":"str","to":"0","tot":"str"}],"action":"","property":"","from":"","to":"","reg":false,"x":370,"y":120,"wires":[["784fbae.1329d44","11a8e39c.f4df0c"]]},{"id":"11a8e39c.f4df0c","type":"rpi-gpio out","z":"d0a0c3ed.6a34b","name":"Pi_Out","pin":"8","set":false,"level":"1","freq":"","out":"out","x":550,"y":120,"wires":[]},{"id":"a6dde575.f2db98","type":"switch","z":"d0a0c3ed.6a34b","name":"Sw_Node","property":"payload","propertyType":"msg","rules":[{"t":"cont","v":"On","vt":"str"},{"t":"cont","v":"Off","vt":"str"}],"checkall":"false","repair":false,"outputs":2,"x":220,"y":100,"wires":[["99b816.69e437e8"],["1a095357.07444d"]]},{"id":"f25075b3.e21528","type":"function","z":"d0a0c3ed.6a34b","name":"Comparison","func":"context.node = context.node ||0;\ncontext.node1 = context.node1 ||0;\n\nif(msg.topic == 'a'){\n context.node = msg.payload;\n} else if (msg.topic == 'b'){\n context.node1 = msg.payload;\n}\n\nif (context.node == context.node1){\n return{ topic: 'd', payload: 'equal'}\n}else{\n return{ topic: 'e', payload: 'not equal'}\n} \n","outputs":1,"noerr":0,"x":330,"y":500,"wires":[["3628fdac.b6bf92","bdd67bb9.4cbb98"]]},{"id":"3628fdac.b6bf92","type":"debug","z":"d0a0c3ed.6a34b","name":"","active":false,"tosidebar":true,"console":false,"tostatus":false,"complete":"false","x":510,"y":500,"wires":[]},{"id":"34597e16.6af5f2","type":"ui_numeric","z":"d0a0c3ed.6a34b","name":"","label":"numeric","tooltip":"","group":"8271a89c.eff538","order":0,"width":0,"height":0,"wrap":false,"passthru":true,"topic":"a","format":"{{value}}","min":0,"max":10,"step":1,"x":100,"y":440,"wires":[["f25075b3.e21528"]]},{"id":"2148df81.ec0a8","type":"ui_numeric","z":"d0a0c3ed.6a34b","name":"","label":"numeric","tooltip":"","group":"8271a89c.eff538","order":1,"width":0,"height":0,"wrap":false,"passthru":true,"topic":"b","format":"{{value}}","min":0,"max":10,"step":1,"x":100,"y":500,"wires":[["f25075b3.e21528"]]},{"id":"bdd67bb9.4cbb98","type":"ui_text","z":"d0a0c3ed.6a34b","group":"8271a89c.eff538","order":2,"width":0,"height":0,"name":"","label":"text","format":"{{msg.payload}}","layout":"row-spread","x":500,"y":560,"wires":[]},{"id":"b7ae1ebf.c4373","type":"e-mail","z":"d0a0c3ed.6a34b","server":"smtp.gmail.com","port":"465","secure":true,"tls":true,"name":"peter@waterwire.com.au","dname":"Start_Email","x":790,"y":280,"wires":[]},{"id":"f057ff0c.9e18c","type":"change","z":"d0a0c3ed.6a34b","name":"Chg 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Msg","property":"payload","propertyType":"msg","rules":[{"t":"eq","v":"1","vt":"str"},{"t":"eq","v":"0","vt":"str"}],"checkall":"true","repair":false,"outputs":2,"x":180,"y":300,"wires":[["f057ff0c.9e18c"],["d7e054b6.dc0548"]]},{"id":"5b0329cd.118ef8","type":"delay","z":"d0a0c3ed.6a34b","name":"Delay","pauseType":"delay","timeout":"2","timeoutUnits":"seconds","rate":"1","nbRateUnits":"1","rateUnits":"second","randomFirst":"1","randomLast":"5","randomUnits":"seconds","drop":false,"x":610,"y":280,"wires":[["b7ae1ebf.c4373"]]},{"id":"7c01757f.6dca9c","type":"status","z":"d0a0c3ed.6a34b","name":"Email_out","scope":["b7ae1ebf.c4373"],"x":600,"y":400,"wires":[["8dbc058f.c15b68"]]},{"id":"8dbc058f.c15b68","type":"debug","z":"d0a0c3ed.6a34b","name":"Email_Dbg","active":true,"tosidebar":true,"console":false,"tostatus":false,"complete":"true","targetType":"full","x":770,"y":400,"wires":[]},{"id":"28618461.d70b1c","type":"mqtt-broker","z":"","name":"Adafruit","broker":"io.adafruit.com","port":"1883","clientid":"","usetls":false,"compatmode":false,"keepalive":"60","cleansession":true,"birthTopic":"","birthQos":"0","birthPayload":"","closeTopic":"","closeQos":"0","closePayload":"","willTopic":"","willQos":"0","willPayload":""},{"id":"8271a89c.eff538","type":"ui_group","z":"","name":"Input 2","tab":"ad4ee04d.f0009","order":1,"disp":true,"width":"6","collapse":false},{"id":"ad4ee04d.f0009","type":"ui_tab","z":"","name":"Home","icon":"dashboard","disabled":false,"hidden":false}]

```

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**Author:** ![cymplecy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/cymplecy/32/2773_2.png) [@cymplecy](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/cymplecy)\
**Post date:** [1 June 2020 06:32 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/status-node-how-does-it-work/27551/8 "2020-06-01T06:32:44Z")

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Can you try this simple test and see if it works

Set the debug node to complete msg object and not just msg.payload

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/3X/c/1/c1b5e12a4393d09cf7e84c303b25688d5a81dea6.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![Peter\_Truman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b38774/32.png) [@Peter\_Truman](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Peter_Truman)\
**Post date:** [1 June 2020 06:56 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/status-node-how-does-it-work/27551/9 "2020-06-01T06:56:56Z")

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Ok - did that - debug node is set to display the whole message. Still not what I expected though!

I've copied the flow below - be interesting to see what happens if it run on another machine?

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/3X/6/8/689ae76843caa740d675f24d8bbfa17ca0784b3f.png)

```auto
[{"id":"927511ca.cfc0e","type":"status","z":"dc772838.cf2318","name":"","scope":null,"x":180,"y":240,"wires":[["ceebb2.8454845"]]}]

```

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**Author:** ![cymplecy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/cymplecy/32/2773_2.png) [@cymplecy](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/cymplecy)\
**Post date:** [1 June 2020 07:11 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/status-node-how-does-it-work/27551/10 "2020-06-01T07:11:28Z")

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> [@Peter\_Truman](#):
>
> Still not what I expected though!

Your getting exactly what you should be getting 🙂

What is it that you`re expecting to get?

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**Author:** ![Peter\_Truman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b38774/32.png) [@Peter\_Truman](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Peter_Truman)\
**Post date:** [2 June 2020 00:16 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/status-node-how-does-it-work/27551/11 "2020-06-02T00:16:04Z")

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Oh - I've got it now! Rookie mistake on my part. A bit embarrassed that I didn't know I could expand on the result by clicking the little arrows doh!

Thanks for your help - I appreciate it.

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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:** [1 August 2020 00:16 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/status-node-how-does-it-work/27551/12 "2020-08-01T00:16:06Z")

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