Hi I use following flow to control a music streamer by gpio button. [flowgpio] As I use more then one "http request node" and ther will come more, I would like to replace the IP Adress in "http request" node by a variable or constant. Best would be I could edit the adress in dashboard. Is this…

[image] nosfreatu: Is this possible and when yes how? Its in the built in help... [image] Basically, clear the node settings URL field, then pass it into the HTTP request via msg.url

Thank. What I forgot to mention, my url looks like this http://192.168.1.122:11000/Preset?id=2 and I only want to replace the bold section.

you can make your msg.url whatever you want e.g. function node... msg.url = "http://" + msg.ip + ":" + msg.port + "/Preset?id=2" return msg. Or use a change node to contruct the URL Or the http-request node itself supports mustache syntax (again, its in the help) but to get you moving... set t…

Thanks I did following for testing. But the msg.ip and msg.port are not defined in the other flows. So I think i have to find a way to make them defined, what needs more to know about the node red system, and some study from me. [{"id":"482d7c90.87f404","type":"inject","z":"538c0a77.5b11b4","nam…

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Use constant with ip address stored in node configuration (http request)

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