Adding directly a protocol converter
# umh-supportb
Brian Pribe
10/18/2024, 2:50 PMCan only add a dataflow for custom. Can't for any of the others. Yeah i can add via connections, but still would like to add via data flows.
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Jermuk
10/19/2024, 8:59 PMHow would you then have the UI? Create a protocol converter and then select the connection in the UI?
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trentc
10/19/2024, 9:14 PMnot to hijack the thread...but can we get a "toggle" to turn data flows on and off? sometimes you want to keep them....and do some testing...
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Jermuk
10/19/2024, 9:18 PMThank you for confirming it, it has been on our todo list and on Friday I spent some time in designing it 🙂
Jermuk
10/19/2024, 9:18 PMWe thought about Deploy / Save as Draft as the two options
Jermuk
10/19/2024, 9:18 PMAlso because one misbehaving flow will set the entire instance to warning (on purpose!), so for testing it might be overkill
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trentc
10/19/2024, 9:19 PMYea that's probably better if you can save it as a draft, then deploy...but you need to convert it back to a draft
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Jermuk
10/19/2024, 9:19 PMOh better, there will be the test button so that you can test it before you deploy even!
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trentc
10/19/2024, 9:20 PMyes that is extremely helpful to test.....but sometimes you still want to just turn things off....maybe to isolate processing...or you want to turn off your working flows...and only enable your flow to test...
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Jermuk
10/19/2024, 9:31 PMOr one knows that his flow is still messy, as every couple of minutes There is a weird message coming in. And UMH will then set the the entire instance to warning, as we want to prevent this “it somehow works in node red,but one also really does not see it if it doesn’t”
In this case, one wants to disable a protocol converter to continue on a later stage. Or have it running in “dry mode” or something
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Brian Pribe
10/19/2024, 10:53 PMExactly