# Note Card Lora Note.add with Payload

**URL:** <https://discuss.blues.com/t/note-card-lora-note-add-with-payload/2029>\
**Category:** Notecard API\
**Created:** [March 16, 2024, 6:24pm UTC](https://discuss.blues.com/t/note-card-lora-note-add-with-payload/2029 "2024-03-16T18:24:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![iseries1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.blues.com/iseries1/32/1136_2.png) [@iseries1](https://discuss.blues.com/u/iseries1)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2024, 6:24pm UTC](https://discuss.blues.com/t/note-card-lora-note-add-with-payload/2029/1 "2024-03-16T18:24:54Z")

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When sending data to The Things Network I encode the data as binary hex values and send the small packet to the network.

Now with Notecard Lora I have to encode that as Base64 data and add a payload option.

When I do that I get an error saying the template does not exist. How do I fix this?

{“req”:“note.add”, “file”:“data.qo”, “payload”:“rkepQQrXFELheuZBTx0AAAoAAADWAQAA6Zf1ZQ==”}  
{“err”:“template for data.qo is not found”}

Also when I run the Quickstart example there is instruction to get the temperature which continuesly sends a request to the NoteHub but there is no instructions on how to stop it.

Mike

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**Author:** ![RobLauer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.blues.com/roblauer/32/1567_2.png) [@RobLauer](https://discuss.blues.com/u/RobLauer)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2024, 12:33am UTC](https://discuss.blues.com/t/note-card-lora-note-add-with-payload/2029/2 "2024-03-18T00:33:35Z")

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Hi @iseries1,

When sending `payload` data in a `note.add` request with the Notecard LoRa, you still have to create a note template, but with a null `body`:

```auto
{"req": "note.template", "file": "data.qo", "port": 10, "format": "compact", "body": {}}

```

This isn’t yet documented, but will be this week!

Also, thank you for the heads-up on stopping the `card.temp` requests. We will also update the guide, but in the meantime you can issue this request to stop the automatic gathering of temp/voltage data:

```auto
{"req":"card.temp", "stop": true}

```

Thanks,  
Rob