I've just caught up on your home-automation posts and I'm suitably impressed. I'm currently in the midst of building out a raspberry-pi based Zoom/Google Meet conference setup for the front room. I love to see how pi's and arduino's can be used in all sorts of purposes.
Definitely looking forward to your Node-Red configuration! I'm a big fan of Node-Red and use it almost everywhere I go. I have one instance where I'm using it to receive logs, parse them, and place them into a db. Very useful and versatile!
Thanks @wwwiebe for the feedback! Please let me know how your build goes for the Pi based Zoom/Google setup? And I wouldn't mind seeing your config for receiving and parsing the log files..... I can think of several applications for that!!!
I've been using Node-Red for about a year now, and I still think I'm a noob! There is so much power in the graphics based programming..... well you know!
The one device that cannot utilize Node-Red is the Pi ZeroW. If I recall correctly the processor cannot run the necessary version of npm or node.js (I think?) and so I've started learning mqtt and have a Pi running mosquitto that my Node-Red devices can interface with as well as my Pi ZeroW devices via Python3
I've had nothing but issues with running Node-Red on a PiZero, too. I like the idea of using mqtt instead! I've put a project on hold and might need to revisit with mqtt. I'll see if I can make a post on that soon!
It would be great to see your work on mqtt. I'll be sharing some of mine tomorrow where I've interfaced my primary node-red Pi with my Pi ZeroW's