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Node-red, a visual tool for wiring the Internet of Things

github.com/node-red
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This looks cool and I love IoT so I wish I could figure out what it does!

The screenshot looks like it might give me a hint except it's too small to read and I can't figure out how to enlarge it if that's possible.

It [...] makes it easy to wire together flows using the wide range nodes in the palette.

Right, well does that mean? Is this a visual programming language? An IFTT or YQL-like service?

I know that I can read the getting started guide but that tells me how to install the software and how to create my first flow from a quick look at it, and I am not going to spend more time now, except for ranting here :-)

http://flows.nodered.org has a bunch of examples.

It looks like the program is serialized to JSON, which you can open in their editor to edit graphically. Pretty cool.

Node-Red is one of the most useful applications that I have installed recently.

In my case, I have several low cost wireless temperature measuring sensors (http://shop.ciseco.co.uk) mixing data with an openweathermap feed sending data to emoncms and other systems. Also connected are wireless buttons (ciseco again) on the washing machine linked to node-red that sends a pushbullet alert when the timer is up.

As has been said - check out the flows website for examples.

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