Beginners Guide to Node-RED in Home Assistant

This video goes through installing the Node-RED add-on in Home Assistant and how to create your first few basic flows.

The key nodes for understanding how it works and testing your first flows are discussed, such as the inject and debug nodes.

If you would like to see a follow-up video with some more detailed examples then let me know in the comments!

[davidleney]

Very nice. I like the way you explain things clearly and slowly for us just starting out with node red.

[MrGatya]

I am surprised you don't have more likes and subscribes. This was an excellently done tutorial. Thank you!

[bjarkesoegaard]

Thank you for your content - I really like the presentation of nodes - as you conclude this only scratched the surface 🙂

[TrockeyTrockey]

Thanks for basic instruction - very helpful!

[phlo]

Great tutorial for beginners like me. Thanks.

[keviincosmos]

THANKS!!
Needed this! Hope for more good NR stuff

[marekgiercuszkiewicz]

Very nice introduction to NodeRed, i just started my adventure with this powerful tool and hope for more guides from you.

[scottvickrey]

I was so happy to see node red in here I was dreading using HA's Automations. I love node red just could never afford a hosted solution, or the security ramifications of self hosted. I will never open a port again!

[sergevanhaudenhove]

Very good tutorial ! Thanks. Would it be possible to get a tutorial about sending email from Node Red ? I have seen some around but they were made about 3 years ago and doesn't seems to work anymore. But good job ;-)

[MaxGoddur]

I have a flow as followes:
Pir motion triggered "ON" if it is between 10am and 6pm allow the the "ON" to turn on the fan and send message to my cell phone. The problem is the fan remains on for the allowed time which is 10am to 6pm but any further motion on continues to send annoying messages to my cell. How do I get this to be a one time "message" everyday?

[joeking]

Thought I'd struck gold here, but there is no 'node-red' in the list, nearest to 'nod' in search is 'Linode' so not sure how you getting this going ???.

[wxkevog]

Thank you for producing this video. I now have node-red set up. Now I do have a question, being new to home assistant I would like to set up the ssl. I have no idea how to do that. I would also like to see examples of how to code using nod-red. I you have a video or can refer me to one it would be great. I am a retired computer programmer but have been out of it for years. Thank you for your assistance. Ray

[mfkhometheater]

I'm still getting the, "FATAL: Please be sure to set the "credential_secret" option." even after entering and saving. I notice a "restart" option pops up on your screen but not on mine.

Edit: I rebooted both the laptop I'm talking to Home Assistant with and also the Home Assistant NUC and then it was happy.

[maciejweber]

I just got the home assistant created (I am very new to all of this), but I don't even get the 'add-ons' tab in the settings menu... any ideas?

[tudordan]

I noticed you had a formula 1 tab in node red, what related automation do you have over there? get a notification whenever Max doesn't win? :)))

[LiquidPlacidity]

You said we may wonder why you are only maintaining the car only every 2 months. I'm confused by this. I've never heard of anybody doing maintenance on their car this often. What exactly are you doing maintenance on that needs checking that frequently?

[ChrisAlves_]

I dont have the option "Credential_Secret", what I can do?

[chuxxsss]

Home assistant suck deploying Node-red. I will go back to Node-red stand alone.

[OGKenG]

This isn't very "beginner" level. You're assuming people already understand some of the basics.

[javierlindenthal]

Seems rather useless to have node red unless you need actions