How to Increase Allowed Input Nodes?

brandock · 2020-04-12T21:00:26.223Z

Hi all,

In older versions of emonCMS you could increase the number of allowed input nodes the following way. What is the modern equivalent with the new .ini settings files? Thanks!

Old way: Nano settings.php
Add this to the settings array
// Input
“input”=>array(
// Max number of allowed different inputs per user. For limiting garbage rf$
‘max_node_id_limit’ => 64
),

brandock · 2020-04-13T01:24:04.801Z

Figured it out by reading this:

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Default is 32. To override, in ssh go to /var/www/emoncms

nano settings.ini

Add this:

; Input
[input]
; Max number of allowed different inputs per user. For limiting garbage rf data
max_node_id_limit = 64

Then:

sudo systemctl restart emoncms_mqtt
sudo systemctl restart feedwriter