Home assistant palette for Node Red?

Custom Apps and Drivers Node-RED
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For those of you that use Node Red outside of Home Assistant, what HA palette(s} do you recommend to incorporate entities, devices, etc?

All of the instructional videos I found on YouTube for NR and HA utilize the NR add-on within HA and the palette seems different from pallets available otherwise but I could be crazy. I'm only testing the waters with HA so I don't want to use NR add-on within it when I have NR working great outside of HA.

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That really seems like a much better question to ask on the HA forums...

I just think it is kind of tacky to use Hubitat's forums to ask about one of their competitor's extensions / integration to a 3rd party.

That said, I just used the home assistant websocket nodes in node-red. They worked fine.

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I am just trying to get Amcrest cameras' motion sensor capability into HE and I don't know another way to do it than HA. I trudged thru creating the devices and animations that send HTTP Requests to HE Virtual Motion sensors. I was hoping to do it using NR instead. Trust me, I am in no way going to promote HA over HE and don't want to move all of my NR into HA and the NR add-on.

Additionally, I just received my 3rd hub yesterday from HE so I don't think there is any doubt who has their hands in my wallet. $ :grinning:$ :grinning:$ :grinning:$

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I have amcrest if you find a way please share. All I’ve read there is no API.

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I get that. No biggie.

I'm just saying that just because I own 10 MS Windows licenses doesn't mean it is OK to go ask for iPhone help on their forums. :man_shrugging:

Not something I'm losing sleep over, though. Peace and love. :slight_smile:

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& Rock n Roll!!!!!!

I could have clarified my motivation was not to move to HA but just get something from HA that I couldn't get currently directly from HE.

@JBrown With that being said, I have been using Tasker on a cheap Android phone that's always home for a few months now successfully. Having just setup similar with HA, I can say that the Tasker/Android method (Not a competitor of HE @JasonJoel :stuck_out_tongue: haha) was MUCH easier to setup and the power to run an Android phone is much less. Running HA just for what I was trying to accomplish is overkill.

Check out this thread:

Disregard the title. In the thread, I mention how I use this method for Eufy Doorbell, Amcrest cameras, and Wyze cameras.

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I use it within the add-on which pre-installs this pallet

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That's the node set I used when integrating HA with node-red, too.

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that "Call Service" node in that palette can literally do anything in HA, not sure why there would be any reason to look for something else