Node-RED

medium
Home Automation

Flow-based programming tool for wiring together hardware devices, APIs, and online services.

0.5 GB RAM min Active development
GitHub Docs Website

Pros

  • Visual flow editor is intuitive
  • Huge library of community nodes
  • Great for IoT and API integration
  • Good MQTT support

Cons

  • JavaScript-based flows can become spaghetti
  • Debugging complex flows is difficult
  • Security requires manual configuration
  • Can be unstable with too many community nodes

Tags

automationflowsiotvisual-programmingmqtt

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Commonly used together in self-hosted setups.

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