How to inject entity id into message?

Third party integrations Node-RED
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Hi,
I get a notification when someone opens a window, but I don’t know which sensor is triggered. Is there a way to insert entity id into notification? This is the flow I’m using:

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thanks

2

I use this in my formula to achieve this:


newmsg = {}

newmsg.payload = { data: { "message":"Unregelmäßigkeit bei " + msg.data.new_state.attributes.friendly_name + " wurde erkannt"} }

return newmsg;
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I wrote this a long time ago, so I think they have standardized the message object, so there’s probably excess here, but this is what I use:

if(msg.data.attributes){
    msg.entity = msg.data.attributes.friendly_name;
} else if (msg.data.new_state) {
    msg.entity = msg.data.new_state.attributes.friendly_name;
}
return msg;

Then I have an object I can reference later in the flows (this one actually comes from a subflow) of msg.entity

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thank you both, will give it a try and see if I can make it work!

5

worked like a charm! Thanks