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Smart home and homelab tech, honest opinions, and a healthy distrust of cloud-only devices.
Smart home and homelab tech, honest opinions, and a healthy distrust of cloud-only devices.
The short version
- The companion guide to my three-part Node-RED series.
- Every built-in node - Common, Function, Network, Parser, Sequence and Storage - what it does, when to reach for it, with working demo flows you can import and run yourself.
- If you've been playing around with Node-RED, you've probably noticed there's a lot of nodes in that palette.
What happened
And if you're anything like me when I started, you felt pretty overwhelmed the moment you got dropped onto that scary blank canvas. So I made a three-part series breaking down every single core Node-RED node: what it does, when you'd use it, and for the trickier ones, exactly how they work.
Why it matters
The two are meant to go together rather than replace each other.
Summary by Nerd News Network. Read the full article at Foxy's Lab via the links above and below.