Node Red : Edit : Trigger : state node

[Gaston]

Trigger : state node output (among other thing ) topic, being populated by the entity_id. I would like to set up topic with another value.

In the configuration of this node, there is a “custom outputs” section, however I cannot figure out how to set a new value to topic.
Can anyone help me or direct me where I can find information how to set this “custom output”.
I know that I can attach a (function) node at the end of of the (trigger: state node) and change the value of topic easily. However, I would prefer to change it within (trigger: state node)

[someinternetguy]

Hey I don’t know if it’s helpful but I played around with this and here is what I came up with… the problem is that it is a separate output, and I think you’re looking for the original output’s topic to be changed… I think you may have no choice but to use a separate function node to either set the topic to what you want or use the method below and have a function node combine the topic sent from the state node custom output with the original msg object…

custom msg = {"topic":"TOPIC_SET_TO_THIS_TEXT"}

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[Gaston]

Thank you. I came to the same conclusion: use a separate function.

[jdntx]

How about just using a change node? You can customize the topic like this:

[Gaston]

Thank you for your replay. This is exactly what I did.