Node-RED for the Rest of Us: Automations Without a Cloud

Mon, 07 Oct 2024 12:37:00 +0000

Every home-automation platform eventually asks you to write logic, and every one of them makes the simple things easy and the interesting things awful. “Turn the porch light on at sunset” is a one-liner anywhere. “Turn the hall light on when someone comes home after dark, but only if it isn’t already on, and dim it instead of blazing if it’s past midnight, and don’t touch it at all if the film-night scene is active” is where the wheels come off. In a YAML automation that logic becomes a nest of condition: blocks and templating that you cannot read a fortnight later, let alone hand to anyone else in the house.

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Node-RED for the Rest of Us: Automations Without a Cloud