question

Hi @Mark

Im not a javascript programmer so i might use the wrong terms here. But what you want is a map.

define the map like this:

const statusMap = {
  0: 'Off',
  2: 'Fault',
  3: 'Bulk',
  4: 'Absorption',
  5: 'Float',
  6: 'Storage',
  7: 'Equalize',
  245: 'Off',
  247: 'Equalize',
  252: 'External Control'
};

Then to get the message from the number you would go

statusMap[0] would output Off

So if the message coming into the function node is the number and you want to output the message you would do:

msg.payload = statusMap[msg.payload];

Hope this helps

The other option is you can probably get a change node to do this. Depending on if you'll have other payloads with those numbers in. ie change from 0 to Off.
and repeat for each code. However this probably wont work if you have other messages that happen to include '0'

But that is a nice idea. I can modify the nodes to also output the text value in case of an enumerated type as `msg.textvalue`. Which I'll add to the 1.5.14 release of node-red-contrib-victron (note that it will still take a while before being part of the normal Venus release)

Sounds good.

I know the VRM portal displays this info.

Worked it out

Using convert payload

I tried change mode first but it did not work for me. Endless hair pulling I gave up on this idea.

Thanks