Passing variables to Notify TTS

Third party integrations Node-RED
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Hi,

I’m 100% sure this worked before, as I had this setup, but for some reason, it’s not working this time.

So, I have a flow, where once a global variable is adjusted, it’ll send that variable to my phone as a notification and TTS, such as “The wife is home soon, shall I put the kettle on?”

Now, I’ve used the debug node, so I know the payload is reaching the end and getting read
But for some reason, the Call-Service node isn’t detecting it, the notification is blank and the TTS just says “Please set a title to process”, so I’m doing something incorrectly, but I’m not sure.

Here’s my flow, if that helps

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Here’s the TTS setup

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I’m just so confused, as to why I can’t get this to work, like I said, the debug node can see the message payload

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If I set the title for TTS manually, it works just fine, same with the notification, but it’s just not accepting payloads.

I must be missing something very simple here…Help?

Thanks in advance!

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What’s the data field type set to in the call-service node

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Not entirely sure I’m aware what you mean by type?

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If you mean the payload data type (which I think you might be)

It’s set to string
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Also, realised I’m mixing the screenshots of my TTS node and my mobile notification node… either way, payload isn’t getting recognised

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Turns out, this works? Not using “{{Notify}}”, when did this change?

{
   "message": Notify,
   "title" : "Notification"
}
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You’re attempting to use mustache templates with the data type set to JSONata, J: expression. Mustache templates only work when the data type is set to JSON.

https://zachowj.github.io/node-red-contrib-home-assistant-websocket/guide/call-service.html

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