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  1. Node-RED
  2. Installation of Node-RED
  3. Setting a password for your node-Red [Optional]
  4. Nodes

Node-RED

Node-RED is described as flow-base programming for the Internet of Things. It provides a browser-based editor that makes it easy to wire together flows using the wide range of nodes in the palette that can be deployed to its runtime in a single-click.

Node-Red has different nodes which allows us to control our devices according to our needs. We will use this home automation for our current project.

Installation of Node-RED

This command shows how to install Node-Red , Nodejs , Mosquitto as your MQTT Server in a simple line of commands.

sudo apt-get install mosquitto mosquitto-clients -y
bash <(curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/node-red/linux-installers/master/deb/update-nodejs-andnodered)
sudo systemctl enable nodered.service # start Node-Red as service

Node-Red is now available at http://:1880

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Setting a password for your node-Red [Optional]

if you want you can set a password to your Node-Red with following command

sudo npm install -g node-red-admin # install node-red- admin package from node red package manager for global usage.
node-red-admin hash-pw # create a new password for your Node-Red, You will get a hash value as output.
nano ~/.node-red/settings.js # open settings.js files and uncomment adminAuth Object and set password  to the new created hash value.
node-red-stop #stop Node red
node-red-start # start node-red to make the change activ

Nodes

Once you have Node-RED opened, you can see different Nodes available and over the menu button , you can add additional new packets. Here are some important Nodes :

  • Switch: Checks, according to individual conditions, to which output the node sends the message should be forwarded.

  • Change: Allows you to change individual properties in the message payload. So you can Simply exchange parts of the message (or the entire message).
  • Function: Probably the most powerful node, but also the most complicated. Here you can Program freely in JavaScript and manipulate the messages or completely new messages hand back
  • RBE: Blocks further messages at the inbox until a change takes place. Here can either the complete payload can be checked, or just a single property of the Payload
  • HTML: Extracts certain elements from a complex HTML construct using CSS selectors. Very practical for quickly collecting individual values.
  • Delay: Delays the incoming message by the set (or a random) time until it arrives the output is passed on
  • Trigger: Converts messages into a “status”. E.g. ensure that the Status is held “HIGH” as long as new messages are received.