How to append time to payload?

[877dev]

I seem to be missing something obvious. I have a true or false switch node, when "false" is outputted I want to set the payload message to "<time/date> Door is open".

As the input to the moment node is to be triggered by a "false" message from the switch node, I can't see how to get the time/date appended.

Any ideas?

[877dev]

Setting up like this I get the date passed through but not the time for some reason...

[Julian Knight]

Hi, thanks for raising. Often best to raise general questions in the Node-RED forum though as you tend to get a faster and possibly more complete response because lots of people will be looking at it.

In this case, if I've understood you correctly, you have two choices:

1. Use MomentJS's formatting. You can add text to the output format by escaping it with square brackets.

   See here under "Escaping Characters" for details.

   [today] dddd

   

2. Alternatively, add the timestamp to some field other than payload and then use a change node after the moment node to merge the timestamp with whatever other text you want.

[877dev]

Hi @TotallyInformation

Thank you, although that is also useful I don't think I explained myself clearly.
The issue is that unless I use a timestamp trigger node, the time does not set and it shows 00:00. The date is correct.

I've posted over on node red as you suggested HERE

Many thanks
877dev