Have experienced problems with all available bacnet nodes for node red. So to try something else, bacnet stack was included in the docker container and is available through exec node. For example can run this command: readprop 111 19 1 description This returns the description based on the specifi…

[image] ThingsTinkerer: Any way to configure exec node to run sequentially and NOT in parallel? You can force them to be sequential using this flow .

Perhaps the exec node is spawning all the commands immediately. So I guess the stdout feeds from the individual processes will be merged as they arrive from the processes.

In the exec node, have you set the Output to exec mode?

Yes, I use "when the command is complete - exec mode" exclusively. Command is left empty, then appent msg.payload (checkbox checked). Timeout 10 seconds (don't think it matters as all commands are "instant". Finally "Hide console" for windows, but this is running on linux docker container so no gui …

That's brilliant, thanks! So simple.

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Colin 8 November 2024 18:09 5

You can force them to be sequential using this flow.

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Weird scrambled output of exec node using bacnet readprop command

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