Node-Red Flow Samples/Sharing

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@tomw

Do you put nodes into your flow that "feed" the dashboard indicators somehow, or else how do you connect them to data sources?

See the flow below - the standard NR nodes are used to get data and then the ui_nodes are used to display the data.

I thought I had posted my solution for saving and displaying the events but I can't find it here now.

EDIT: Here is one of the solutions that I had posted.

Hubitat logs to db using Node-RED - LONG READ

A couple of people asked if I could document my process for using Node-RED to store and display HE logs, so here goes: Overall design Log data to DB : Node-RED WebSocket node subscribes to the data published by the logsocket connection on HE and stores the data into a mySQL database. If the log type is anything other than "debug", "info" or "warn", the flow sends out an SMS/email via Gmail using the email node. Display log data : Node-RED native dashboard ui_table is used to display the data.…

@tomw

How do you actually launch the dashboard?

The dashboard is at the same IP address that you use for creating your flows except it as a /ui at the end of the url (IP:1880/ui)

@tomw

Any tips on getting started?

There are a few YouTube videos on getting started with the dashboard. Here is one that I used in the beginning

Node Red Dashboard Basics