[SOLVED] Controlling Linux client with MQTT (or other possibilities)

[crxporter (Garrett Porter)]

Here’s one of each of my item types.

I actually am at 50 HomeKit items in node red these days…

My node-red + HomeKit + OpenHAB setup

I know others have connected their devices and everyone has their own twist on how to do this. My preferred method is to use function nodes wherever possible. This keeps things from getting too messy with all of the switch and change nodes that come up in similar setups. It came up today when I started showing @rkrisi how to use MQTT+Node-Red to send command line codes to other computers. So here goes. A couple of prerequisites: -Install node-red (obviously) -Add the flow “node-red-contrib-h…