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Node-RED

If you boot up our tech stack using docker-compose you already have a Node-RED instance running on your local machine.

First steps

For debuging I am going to install Node-RED's own dashboard.

Shell into your Docker container.

Inside the container you can install the Node-RED Dashboard (we will switch to Grafana, soon):

npm install node-red-dashboard

The dashboard should be visible on the righmost menu item in Node-RED.

In Node-RED you can add a MQQT node to receive values from the power monitor, hook it up to a gauge and display it on a dasboard.

In the dasboard section you have to create a tab. Inside this tab you have to create a group.

The tricky part is putting the gauges in the group. This is also done in the gauge's settings.

You can view the dashboard in an (also mobile) web browser.

Have a look at the flow also in this repository.