Force Stash node to update on upstream changes

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I have a mesh and have a few separate Vellum sims that fire in a linear fashion. I've found I need to "stash" the output of the first vellum sim, otherwise the 2nd vellum sim runs forever. As result there is a bunch of manual updates I want to remove in the graph to have it cook and update properly.

Upstream I want to update a rigpose node and have all the stashes update and sims fire on the new data.

I am not having any luck getting both the stash nodes to updates.. I have tried python sops before and after the stash with hou.node("../stash1").parm("stashinput").pressButton()

and I have tried

n = hou.node("../stash1")
parm = n.parm("stash")
parm.set(geo) without much luck.

I am under the impression that the stash node might need a time update to trigger, but have not been able to make a timeshift force an update either.

Thanks for any help.
Edited by kfinlayson - July 26, 2022 23:52:26
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I think you might want to try and see if 'cacheif' works for you. It seems like it was made for just this situation.
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Awesome, yes it does thank you!
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This stash bug is still there, it does have serious issues to update and it is just unreliable. A fix will be welcomed

I have noticed before the new cacheif which looks cool, but hasn't seen or read much about it, are you guys tried it?
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In my case, the issue came as i have a stash node instanciated... Lucky in my case, i could easily avoid this situation
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