node-red/node-red-nodes

PiGPIOd Feature request: set `host` dynamically

coconup opened this issue · 2 comments

coconup commented

Which node are you reporting an issue on?

PiGPIOd

What happens?

Currently, host is a static string in PiGPIOd nodes that does not accept any templated expression (e.g. {{msg.host}}).

What do you expect to happen?

I would like to be able to dynamically set host, since I have a lot of nodes in my flows.json and hardcoding a hostname in all of them seems dumb (in case that value ever changes or if I need to port flows to a different environment).

Please tell us about your environment:

  • Node-RED version: 3.1.3
  • node.js version: 21.4
  • Platform/OS: arm64/ RPi OS bullseye
dceejay commented

You can instead use an environment variable set outside of Node-RED - see the docs - https://nodered.org/docs/user-guide/environment-variables

coconup commented

You can instead use an environment variable set outside of Node-RED - see the docs - https://nodered.org/docs/user-guide/environment-variables

Even better, thank you!

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