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For the discussion of smart homes, home automation and the like. Because of the instance it will tend to have a more UK flavour but everyone is welcome.

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As we're trending, I thought I'd lean into it and see what everyone is using.

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[–] Emperor 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Thanks for sharing - I had heard of Node-red but didn't know much about it. How did you find it?

[–] Riven@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s been a few years so I don’t remember exactly, but basically I used to use ControllerMate (like autohotkey but not awful) and when it died I went in search of other nodal programming tools. Never found a good replacement for CM, but node-red is amazing in its own way.

[–] Mex 2 points 1 year ago

When HA wa much younger I played with node red as an alternative to its built in automation language, but the HA automations quickly got "good enough" that I didnt go with it.