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Integration with Node-Red

I was thinking to add more flexibility to the setting of the Automation functions integrating Node-Red with the hydrosys4 SW. Node-Red tool seems to be very powerful and I definitely like it.

The SW will become heavier and probably slower, consuming more CPU resources and heating faster. But this is the cost to get this new feature. Not to mention that there might be some limitation of use due to the License that I have to study.

There is not much documentation about integration of NodeRed with other SW, but I know that it has been integrated with HomeAssistant, so at least this is a starting point to study.

If you have any experience or idea to share regarding the Node-red integration, I'd like to hear it!

3 comments

3 Comments

hydrosys4

Mar 14, 2022

Home assistant integration has been implemented in the latest release, see the following post:

https://wordpress.com/post/hydrosysblog.wordpress.com/2987

hydrosys4

Jul 02, 2021

Hi,

Thanks for the comment, the node-red will open many integration possibilities and allow more complex automation tasks, that for example might be beneficial for Hydroponics projects.

So my Idea is to make available the Sensors to the node-red interface probably using websocket interfaces, (could be done also using MQTT, so still undecided about it) then there will be other modules which connects to the outputs.

For sure I need to create some custom nodes, so it is quite a long project for me as I'm not familiar with several key concepts.

Mathew

Jun 29, 2021

Hi there,

I've been having a think about this over the last few days. It's a great idea to allow for integration with Node-RED.

I wonder what the options are for integration, and i suggest that you look at a way that would allow the Hydrosys4 sensors to be available to other devices.

I say the above because

- Node-RED exists as a standalone application, and as integrations within other applications already

- you already have an MQTT broker in Hydrosys4

- you already have some MQTT code in Hyrosys4

If you allowed all of the sensors, switches, relays, GPIOs etc (hardware and software) to be exposed via MQTT, you would allow integration with Node-RED via MQTT (there are MQTT nodes in Note-RED).

Mathew