Thank's to help from the forum users, I manage to get data from sensors, combined and formatted/sorted them and finnaly store them to a folder for later analysis. In parallel I use dashboard to visualize the data. A simple monitoring dash with graph and labels. Now that this is working the last th…

Use the switch to set a context variable, then use that context var in the switch node. e.g [{"id":"235648a4c17ae6c7","type":"ui_switch","z":"f60891e11f2ae0bd","name":"","label":"switch","tooltip":"","group":"16f8a9442c6a9a31","order":1,"width":0,"height":0,"passthru":true,"decouple":"false","topi…

Thank you! exactly what I am looking for. I think I understand your solution but I am unsure about the difference between flow and msg? and there is also global? in any case thanks for your help.

This is all mentioned in the docs Working with context : Node-RED

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