Sorry, this is not a nice picture.
Slightly birthed from my MQTT thread. But this is now a whole different scenario.
I have a subflow to give me a userfriendly time output.
3 options:
For use in log files. The time/date are formatted for ease of reading.
The second one passes the payload and adds a msg.time for use as you want.
The third is formatted to be used to create file names. (So no /'s or :'s in it.)
Cutting to the chase:
The subflow first:
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I finally noticed messages being changed when passing through.
But not all the time and not all messages. So this really took a lot of chasing to catch.
(But have I really caught it, or it is just a ghost?)
(Added later one)
I made the flow below that basically does what happens in the real flow.
But, it doesn't error/have the bad thing happen.
I hope this is the right link.
Post 52
I stuck debug nodes all long the flow.
The messages going into the timestamp node are not the same as the ones coming out, and in a critical way different.
The post pretty well shows that as the messages going in are changed coming out.
But not consistently or always.
So I've maybe found something is broken.
I'm not sure.
Example flow:
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What I saw happening is that there were the 4 messages going into the node.
But when they came out their device name was not the same as it was going in.
This has caused me a lot of grief.
The top two inject nodes show you a Proof of concept and a complex message gets through unchanged.
The lower 4 inject nodes are copies of the messages going in.
On testing a couple of times (of course) they worked.
But to put it out there.....
And looking at that link/thread...
What else could I be missing?
Best I can see it is something to do with the subflow.
I sat there for about 20 minutes and a text editor collating the messages from the side window.
After all that, I saw that what was going in was NOT what was coming out and parts of the message had been changed - for reason/s unknown to me.
Thanks very much in advance for help.
