UI virtual keyboard with ui scheduler enter numeric time

Hello, I added the virtual keyboard available here: https://flows.nodered.org/flow/7fb5bc5ae66e6bc1b1c1b8e800bdef51

I plan to use it via a touch monitor to adjust the parameters of a ui scheduler but when I want to set the time the digital inputs do not work. Do you have any indication of a lead? Thank you.

Hi Montmirail and welcome.
I think you may have to give more information, like example values a maybe an example flow. As it is not clear where the issue you have lies.


Hello, as you can see in the screenshot when using a virtual keyboard for entry in a Scheduler it is possible to enter text and numbers in the upper part "name" but in the area regarding the time setting it is not possible to enter numbers, it remains at "--:--". In photo 2, when pressing a number I see the "--:--" become / focus on "start time" as if the numbers on the virtual keyboard had another function

This seems to be a limitation of the virtual keyboard, it only seems to work with standard ui-text node inputs, and does not recognise text input time/date/etc pickers. You will need to edit the code in the template node to get this to work correctly.

This node was create 5 years ago before time/date text inputs were added.

When you select the time inputs of scheduler, do you get a time picker modal pop up?

there is no window that opens for modifying schedules. I'm not a savvy programmer. I'm going to do some research and maybe at worst add the up and down arrows to the virtual keyboard, maybe they will be functional.

Thank you for taking the time to answer me.

I loaded the ui-scheduler, when i click on starttime or endtime a time input modal opens.


I am wondering why your browser does not do this?

The input to a time input would normally be a unix timestamp, which is what the time modal outputs to the scheduler noder time input. I do not think up down arrows will work, unless they increase or decrease a timestamp.

I have this window which opens on another project created with NodeRed with the Dashboard on a smartphone.
I just tried directly on chromium of the raspberry because I was in remote control via the Mozilla browser and I have the possibility of having a window which opens to select an hour or minutes.
The virtual keyboard makes you lose focus on this selection.

Yes I had that to, try this version of the virtual keyboard, i edited the code so it will ignore time inputs.

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Hello, thank you very much, this fits perfectly.
Really thank you, it took me a lot of time to find and implement this solution.

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