Filter in Angular.js by checking against a scope variable

I'm trying to get a certain object out of an array of objects, that meets a certain criteria. The id of the object should equal the scope variable `$scope.lobbyid`. My current approach below does not pass the lobby object into the controller. the selected `lobby` represents the data of the active tab on the site. so the container array is fetched only once on site load. markup ``` <div ng-repeat="lobby in lobbies | filter:checkLobbyID(lobby)"> [[lobby.name]] </div> ``` controller ``` $scope.checkLobbyID = function($lobby) { return $lobby.lobbyid == $scope.lobbyid; } ``` array ``` "lobbies": [ { "isglobal": true, "lobbyid": 1, "name": "GLOBAL", }, { "isglobal": false, "lobbyid": 2, "name": "stackoverflow rules", }, { "isglobal": false, "lobbyid": 3, "name": "sdadadad", } ] ``` a temporary solution is to add the following code to the tab-switch event. but this needs a copy and another scope variable. how to achieve this with a filter? ``` angular.forEach($scope.lobbies, function(lobby) { if (lobby.lobbyid == $scope.lobbyid) $scope.currLobby = angular.copy(lobby); }); ```