Excellent content as always, keep it up! :) One note however, please consider purchasing a better microphone and also please adjust the audio levels between your voice recording and the music. The music is LOUD lol
I know, I apologize for that. I have several different mics im trying out as well as trying some different software to manage the recording, just to see if it will make a difference. Please bear with me!
I had to add volumes: - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro to get Node_Red use the docker host time. It's annoying to have the wrong time in the log-files.
I noticed this as well ... can you do this after you created the container and how ? I don`t want to redo it again as I have moved all my flows from HA node-red to the synology container one.
I cannot for the life of me get Simple Icons to work. I pulled it from HACS, added it to integrations but nothing "si:name" is resolving. I read something about HA changing how they store icon matrices or something of that sort. Would be awesome if you can make a video on that. Thanks for the great content.
If I already have home assistant in a container, how can I make this work? I tried replacing my ha container with a ha service in docker-compose but something went wrong. :/
Just to confirm, you are running home assistant in docker currently? What problem are you having exactly? Have you installed the node-red docker container? Feel free to shoot me an email at burnshomeautomation@gmail.com if that would be easier
long intros, short video parts when typing... you are also missing completely the part on how to open nodred... the moment I add the doken I get Invalid access... so clearly something is wrong or it has changed over time. Guide is pretty useless nowadays
I agree that a newer version of this video needs to be produced since Node-red has been updated quite a bit. I will see if I can't get something put together.
did you select the right server, a lot of times, there is multiple servers listed and you need to make sure that you have the right one selected by default.
Hai... im new to home Assistant. Previously run my ha on rpi4 from sd card. After 3 months, the sd card fail. Now i running on usb ssd. Thanks to your video, just now i manage to get my node red to work with my home assistant. Now i able to send telegram notification if my house current Consumption more than 15amp.
I had some problems: I installed HA in an old notebook, with UBUNTU. Installed the NODE-RED server, and I can run it on a sepparate window. I can not create an icon in the HA dashboard. The panel_frame.yaml I have created its not accessable to me. How can I solve it?
What is the difference between your type of integration of Node-RED and the Node-RED installation available in the Home Assistant Supervised Add-on Store? Are there any disadvantages with either?
Thank you for the content, one question is about the HACS tab you got in your HA. I'm using IOTstack and I can't find the Node-Red Integration in the integrations menu. How did you apply this community tab to find the Node-red integration?
so did you do the installation in HACS for the node red companion? That must be done first, and then you should be able to go into integrations and see it there as well.
Thanks for the video, it was really helpful. I can´t open Node-red from the side panel when I'm connecting to home assistant thru nabucasa. I guess it has to do whit the ports not being open right? Is this possible to do without opening ports on the router? Thank you
Thank you for your videos, they're helping! one question tho: that looks like a zwave door sensor(fibaro) :) which external zwave integration do you use? and why?
currently I use smartthings for zwave/zigbee stuff. Mainly because the smartthings hub was one of the first things I ever bought when I started looking at smart home tech. I have a zwave usb stick that I plan to move to at some point, but just havent had time to work on it. As for smartthings, though its obviously cloud-based, its extremely solid and never have any issues with it.
I came across a thing: I use Node red for executing some bash commands, like enabling a plex container or executing some sh scripts from HA. I've seen there is a chance to execute commands from inside the container, although is not advisable and obviously against docker isolation phylosophy. Can you tell me how can I execute bash commands on the host securely? Thanks for your videos!!!
Hey - I've followed all of your videos for a long time. Ive been using node-red for a couple of years and HA for longer. Both are in Docker containers using volumes to communicate. It is easy to run this way. I did not integrate it into HA mostly because I didn't realize you could. I extensively use NR and HA for automations and find it easy to use both in a kinda symbiotic relationship ( docker makes this simple ). I use Visual Studio Code to maintain all of it on my dedicated docker host system ( I'm a Mac person but find it easier to run Docker on a linux machine using docker-compose ). I will try your externally clear video to test the setup. MY QUESION IS: Can you easily use Visual Studio Code to maintain the system using your implementation.... Thanks - You Do Great Work - Keep it up!!!!
As far as I know, you should be able to use Visual Studio Code just fine to maintain this setup. I haven't done it personally, but I don't see why it wouldnt work. If you do end up trying it let me know, I am curious.
Great video! I'm new to Docker. Is it possible to deploy node-red container from a stacks inside portainer, instead of using docker-compose? I'm having some permission errors when trying to write to the server (Error: EACCES: permission denied, copyfile '/usr/src/node-red/node_modules/node-red/settings.js' -> '/data/settings.js') Any thoughts? Thanks in advance!
@@BurnsHA That will be great! Thanks!! I'm really out of ideas, I try many things but nothing seems to work. I'm running Docker in Ubuntu on a virtual environment. This is the command: sudo docker run -it -p 1880:1880 -v /srv/homeautomation/nodered:/data --name nodered nodered/node-red
got node red up and running but can't seem to add it to my HA sidebar. I don't have that panel_.yaml file. I created it and copied the yaml in but HA doesn't add it to the bar after a restart. Any ideas?
You can also define your iFrames directly in Configuration.yaml. Create a new "panel_" section as below, and add your frame detail. panel_: nodered: title: 'Node-Red' url: ':1880' icon: mdi:sitemap
I followed along and node red and HA are talking and connected, but when putting an entity name it i do not get a list of the entities. Am i missing something?
@@BurnsHA Just saw this, thanks for the response. I got it working. Since im using node red on unraid in a docker there a little difference to this. I found the 2 were not talking to each other because of missing the HTTP:// in the address settings. Thanks for the response.
Great video - I tried looking up your docker-compose file on github, but it seems to be a bit outdated? Any chance to share your latest config? Cheers!
Excellent content as always, keep it up! :) One note however, please consider purchasing a better microphone and also please adjust the audio levels between your voice recording and the music. The music is LOUD lol
I know, I apologize for that. I have several different mics im trying out as well as trying some different software to manage the recording, just to see if it will make a difference. Please bear with me!
Thank you.
Too bad your Home Assistant is not in Docker too. It makes a lot of things much more difficult to set up and troubleshoot.
I had to add
volumes:
- /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
to get Node_Red use the docker host time. It's annoying to have the wrong time in the log-files.
interesting, I didnt even think about that. Good call!
I noticed this as well ... can you do this after you created the container and how ? I don`t want to redo it again as I have moved all my flows from HA node-red to the synology container one.
Excellent tutorial. Many thanks.
I cannot for the life of me get Simple Icons to work. I pulled it from HACS, added it to integrations but nothing "si:name" is resolving. I read something about HA changing how they store icon matrices or something of that sort. Would be awesome if you can make a video on that. Thanks for the great content.
Ill work on getting something in place
If I already have home assistant in a container, how can I make this work? I tried replacing my ha container with a ha service in docker-compose but something went wrong. :/
Just to confirm, you are running home assistant in docker currently? What problem are you having exactly? Have you installed the node-red docker container? Feel free to shoot me an email at burnshomeautomation@gmail.com if that would be easier
long intros, short video parts when typing... you are also missing completely the part on how to open nodred... the moment I add the doken I get Invalid access... so clearly something is wrong or it has changed over time.
Guide is pretty useless nowadays
I agree that a newer version of this video needs to be produced since Node-red has been updated quite a bit. I will see if I can't get something put together.
Good video - but get yourself a better mike - i think your clips deserve it!
thanks for the comment!
i followed along but i can not get my home assist entitys showing in node red im using unraid if that helps both are in docker containers
did you select the right server, a lot of times, there is multiple servers listed and you need to make sure that you have the right one selected by default.
@@BurnsHA I only see one when I tried
Thanks! More docker-compose guides! I cant start the container :
Error: EACCES: permission denied, copyfile '/usr/src/node-red/node_modules/node-red/settings.js' -> '/data/settings.js'
show me the exact command you are trying to run
The sound is terrible.
sorry, ill keep working on it. thanks for the comment!
Hai... im new to home Assistant. Previously run my ha on rpi4 from sd card. After 3 months, the sd card fail. Now i running on usb ssd.
Thanks to your video, just now i manage to get my node red to work with my home assistant. Now i able to send telegram notification if my house current Consumption more than 15amp.
thats great news! glad I was able to help!
I had some problems: I installed HA in an old notebook, with UBUNTU. Installed the NODE-RED server, and I can run it on a sepparate window. I can not create an icon in the HA dashboard. The panel_frame.yaml I have created its not accessable to me. How can I solve it?
when you say its not accessible, what do you mean? Do you get an error? Are you using Home Assistant with SSL or just standard http and tcp/8123?
What is the difference between your type of integration of Node-RED and the Node-RED installation available in the Home Assistant Supervised Add-on Store? Are there any disadvantages with either?
If you use the addon then node-red gets installed on the same machine as homeassistant. This might or might not be desirable.
Thank you for the content, one question is about the HACS tab you got in your HA. I'm using IOTstack and I can't find the Node-Red Integration in the integrations menu. How did you apply this community tab to find the Node-red integration?
so did you do the installation in HACS for the node red companion? That must be done first, and then you should be able to go into integrations and see it there as well.
Thanks for the video, it was really helpful.
I can´t open Node-red from the side panel when I'm connecting to home assistant thru nabucasa. I guess it has to do whit the ports not being open right? Is this possible to do without opening ports on the router?
Thank you
if you are using nabu casa, im not sure that it is allowed, only certain add-ons are able to be used through the cloud service, ill do some checking.
Thank you for your videos, they're helping! one question tho: that looks like a zwave door sensor(fibaro) :) which external zwave integration do you use? and why?
currently I use smartthings for zwave/zigbee stuff. Mainly because the smartthings hub was one of the first things I ever bought when I started looking at smart home tech. I have a zwave usb stick that I plan to move to at some point, but just havent had time to work on it. As for smartthings, though its obviously cloud-based, its extremely solid and never have any issues with it.
I came across a thing: I use Node red for executing some bash commands, like enabling a plex container or executing some sh scripts from HA.
I've seen there is a chance to execute commands from inside the container, although is not advisable and obviously against docker isolation phylosophy.
Can you tell me how can I execute bash commands on the host securely?
Thanks for your videos!!!
Just to clarify, you want to use Node-Red to execute a bash command on the docker host machine?
@@BurnsHA yes
Hey - I've followed all of your videos for a long time. Ive been using node-red for a couple of years and HA for longer. Both are in Docker containers using volumes to communicate. It is easy to run this way. I did not integrate it into HA mostly because I didn't realize you could. I extensively use NR and HA for automations and find it easy to use both in a kinda symbiotic relationship ( docker makes this simple ). I use Visual Studio Code to maintain all of it on my dedicated docker host system ( I'm a Mac person but find it easier to run Docker on a linux machine using docker-compose ). I will try your externally clear video to test the setup. MY QUESION IS: Can you easily use Visual Studio Code to maintain the system using your implementation.... Thanks - You Do Great Work - Keep it up!!!!
As far as I know, you should be able to use Visual Studio Code just fine to maintain this setup. I haven't done it personally, but I don't see why it wouldnt work. If you do end up trying it let me know, I am curious.
thank you very much. worked great, even without docker compose in my setup. thx
Thats awesome, glad it helped!
Great video! I'm new to Docker. Is it possible to deploy node-red container from a stacks inside portainer, instead of using docker-compose? I'm having some permission errors when trying to write to the server (Error: EACCES: permission denied, copyfile '/usr/src/node-red/node_modules/node-red/settings.js' -> '/data/settings.js') Any thoughts? Thanks in advance!
yes, you should be able to, I havent played around with it much. Let me do some checking and I will let you know.
@@BurnsHA That will be great! Thanks!! I'm really out of ideas, I try many things but nothing seems to work. I'm running Docker in Ubuntu on a virtual environment. This is the command: sudo docker run -it -p 1880:1880 -v /srv/homeautomation/nodered:/data --name nodered nodered/node-red
@@BurnsHAI ended up using named data volumes to shared data outside the container. It is working now! Found this option in node red documentation.
I am unable to get the Node-Red Icon. I didn't care about it until i installed the simple icon integration now I do. Any thoughts?
what do you mean you can't get the node-red icon? it just comes up blank?
@@BurnsHA correct
got node red up and running but can't seem to add it to my HA sidebar. I don't have that panel_.yaml file. I created it and copied the yaml in but HA doesn't add it to the bar after a restart.
Any ideas?
in side your configuration.yaml file, do you have a section that points to that panel_.yaml?
panel_: !include panel_.yaml
You can also define your iFrames directly in Configuration.yaml. Create a new "panel_" section as below, and add your frame detail.
panel_:
nodered:
title: 'Node-Red'
url: ':1880'
icon: mdi:sitemap
Dead easy to work through. Thanks for the clear instructions!
awesome, glad it helped! thanks for the comment!
I followed along and node red and HA are talking and connected, but when putting an entity name it i do not get a list of the entities. Am i missing something?
do you see anything in the logs?
@@BurnsHA Just saw this, thanks for the response. I got it working. Since im using node red on unraid in a docker there a little difference to this. I found the 2 were not talking to each other because of missing the HTTP:// in the address settings. Thanks for the response.
Excellent video - helped me a lot!
Glad it helped!
Is there a reason to instal node red as per this video as opposed to installing via the home assistant integration?
are you talking about the HASSIO addon?
BurnsHA oh right, yeah. I’ve always connected the two.
Thanks Adrian. Good video.
thanks for the comment!
Great video - I tried looking up your docker-compose file on github, but it seems to be a bit outdated? Any chance to share your latest config?
Cheers!
yes, I need to really get my github updated, ill see if I can't get something up there soon.