To start with: Sorry. I don't get what has happened but something is going on.
Back story:
I asked a long time ago about how to make an adjustable frequency output from the delay node.
I looked in my post/question history (what I found) but for some reason, it isn't "working".
To the best of my knowledge it worked way back when - or I thought it did. (No offence to people who helped me.)
Today I was playing with that part of the flow and somehow it all went pear shaped.
I was mucking about on a couple of my machines, trying to optimise a flow. It went yuck and I tried to restore it from another machine.
But when I did that, it remained pear shaped.
This is what I understood is correct/working:
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But that part of the flow doesn't quite do what I want now.
Not a big thing, but in trying to get it, the problems started.
What I am wanting is that there is an output to (say for now) a debug node that shows the current delay time.
Ultimately it will go to a text output node. So before it is shown I will put it through a function node to divide the msg.payload by 1000.
I cut/pasted that block of code into the other machine, but for some weird reason:
rather than seeing it change from 10 seconds to (say) 20, I am getting a long pause then a spurt of outputs, which is not wanted.
I'll try working on it myself, but I don't seem to have a base line.
