Node-RED nodes for hubitat

⚙️ Custom Apps and Drivers Node-RED
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@aaiyar you need to get this incorporated into one of your flows lol.

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Presence detection based on vehicle license plate that is parked in the driveway!

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Hi @JBrown

Thanks and yes!
I re-read the makerAPI page within hubitat and it is now making more sense. (not sure how I missed that!)
Now, how can I then get the information of the currentvalue of the power using http get request?

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Put this into the http request node
http://YourIP/apps/api/YourAPI#//attribute/power?access_token=YourToken
You can test this with your web browser.

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Am I correct that the Mode node only reads mode; it can't change it?

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I have not tried it, but if I’m reading this right you can.

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MakerAPI supports it but the mode node of the NR plugin currently only supports querying and not setting

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Thanks @JBrown, I thought I did try that b4 (from your link back to dan.t's reply on the other thread) and didn't work, but it did this time for some reason :man_shrugging:.

I've got a couple follow up questions from here:

  1. this query took about 30 seconds to 1 min before it came out, is that normal? or is that just showing how busy my hubitat is? (don't have that many devices) less than 20 definitely.
  2. how can I extract just the power value from this attribute? I tried using debug on payload.power and that didn't work. I tried parsing it and that still came out with the same payload output. I just wanna aim for certain device then extract the power value from it. if possible.
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I get a response in less that a second.
Use the Json node to Change it.

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Awesome! you're a life saver, now I can move on with my tinkering :rofl:

I use stopwatch and it took 15 seconds. any idea why i might be taking that long?

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Not really, what are you running node-red on? Is your Hubitat hub slow?

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I'm running node-red on docker. not sure how to check if my hubitat hub slow as things are switching on and off quite ok.

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I'm running node-red on a raspberry pi without docker.

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Not very scientific, but reboot your hub and see if it is faster after ...

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thanks guys.
I'll give it ago, the reason why I'm thinking that it might be the hub is because when i click the inject/timestamp, the http request has "requesting" under it and stayed there for 15 seconds, then it came up with the payload after it finished.

EDITED: rebooted, same thing on the http request...maybe because it's docker version? :man_shrugging:

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How do I inject the currentValue of a device node into a sequence?

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One thing I've read about node-red if you use a lot of debug nodes it will slow down.

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New version 0.0.17 :tada:

Changes

  • deviceId is now part of the payload message (thank you to @dan.t)
  • topic message property is now set to the node name for device and to hubitat-mode for mode node (thank you to @dan.t)
  • Add a webhook configuration section to make configuration easier
  • New icons for all nodes :sunglasses:
  • Fix a bug where authenticated Node-RED user cannot configure nodes
    • Add a warning to do not expose Node-RED on internet, because the /hubitat/webhook endpoint is not authenticated

Ongoing

  • Review @dan.t PR to support multi Hubitat hub
  • Review @btk PR to set command with flow or global variable
  • I will try to ask to my friend to clean these ugly icons :laughing:
  • Work to authenticate /webhook/hubitat endpoint with specific URL or query string
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0.0.17 Works as described so far. Thanks for the continued improvement!!!

Edit: Webhook config didn't work for me. Not sure if it is because I already had Hubitat configured or not but this is what I got when I clicked "Configure webhook":
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Was I actually supposed to type something in the box? (EDIT: Yes I was.) The text in there, although 'light grey', made me think it would put that in if I didn't type anything else in the box. And that is the correct IP/port of my node-red server.

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If I understand you, you want to poll a device and inject the current status into a flow?