How to get node-red working with openhab

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Node-RED as Alternative Rule Engine

“Node-RED is a visual wiring tool for the Internet of Things.” From an Openhab perspective it a visual tool that can replace the builtin rules engine. There is a good discussion thread already running here around Node-RED. The purpose of this tutorial is specifically how to replace the functionality of the Openhab rules engine with Node-RED utilizing @Peter_De_Mangelaere‘s nodes for easily connecting to Openhab. Update 8/18 I have fully migrated my deployment over to MQTT using the built in …

Openhab and node-red

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OpenHab2: Using Node-Red to create rules for MQTT controlled Items (a short introduction)

Goal: Introduce Node-Red as a Rule Engine into Openhab2 and perform your first hello world example. Prequisites: Working MQTT Binding in OpenHab (see: Trouble with MQTT Bindings 2.x - eventsTriggered - Item stale) Node-Red Installation in Debian 9: Installation of node-red (in short) Basically the installation was done like this: curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_10.x | sudo -E bash - sudo apt-get install -y nodejs sudo apt-get install gcc g++ make sudo npm install -g --unsafe-per…

Node-RED as a rule/script engine for openHAB

Hi there. Decided to create this topic, as I greatly impressed by capabilities, which Node-RED brought to my smart home when I migrated to it from OpenHAB Rules. It’s a kind of continuation of this topic. The idea is simple - Node-RED is a great visual tool, designed by IBM, which allows creation of aka IFTTT rules. It is based on MQTT and thus event-oriented message-passing behaviour across different nodes. E.g. message triggers execution of the node, as it passes from one node to another alon…