Issue with Flogger node

Third party integrations Node-RED
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Is anyone using the Flogger node ? If so can you help with my problem ?
The node won’t seem to write to the log file at all. My log file is called flogger.log
If I set the LogDir to /home then the node seems to work, no error messages but no flogger.log is created. I’ve manually created a flogger.log file to see if it will add to it thereafter but it doesn’t.
If I set the LogDir to /home/admin then I get an error on the node “Can’t write file!” debug gives this - “Can’t write file: Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open ‘/home/admin/flogger.log’”
This smells of a permissions fault but I just can’t find what’s wrong.

My HA is running on a straight Debian machine.
Thanks

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Assuming you’re using the addon, you would need to write to one of the folders within the Node Red container. So one of “/config”, “/share” or “/media”.

On the host machine these are mapped from “/mnt/data/supervisor/homeassistant”, “/mnt/data/supervisor/share” and “/mnt/data/supervisor/media”.

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You sir are a Genius !

Sorted. Thank you so much.

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anyone have advice for this, I am using the Mustache template?

Payload: {{payload}}, WLED: {{wled}}, Holiday: {{holiday}}, Level: {{level}}, State Message: {{statemsg}}

Sometimes the payload is like this, and it will work correctly >

{"payload":"99","wled":"99","holiday":"none","level":35,"statemsg":"off","garage":1,"kitchen":"99","lutron":100,"_msgid":"bce7f0d93142aca1","_event":"node:c06de56ab5f2bf43-9b51890b860f3172"}

and sometime the payload is an object and it doesnt work>

{"payload":{"brightness":35,"color_temp":360,"state":"ON","transition":2},"wled":"99","holiday":"none","level":35,"statemsg":"off","garage":1,"kitchen":"99","lutron":100,"_msgid":"1536b9b1d908639d","_event":"node:e6bc18b574cd6107-28cd8355d3d338bd"}

The output ends up looking like this>

2024/04/02 00:18:23 DEBUG Payload: 100, WLED: 99, Holiday: none, Level: 35, State Message: off
2024/04/02 00:18:26 DEBUG Payload: [object Object], WLED: 99, Holiday: none, Level: 35, State Message: off
2024/04/02 00:18:35 DEBUG Payload: [object Object], WLED: 99, Holiday: none, Level: 35, State Message: off
2024/04/02 00:18:44 DEBUG Payload: [object Object], WLED: 99, Holiday: none, Level: 35, State Message: off
2024/04/02 00:18:53 DEBUG Payload: 99, WLED: 99, Holiday: none, Level: 35, State Message: off
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See if this works for you. Connect the switch node to the node that creates that message, flogger where the debug is.

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Thanks,

That does work, I was just thinking there was a way to do it directly in the Mustache systax.