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Node-RED - Home Assistant Community Add-ons
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Suggestion : Add option to integrate an existing external Node-red instance into HASS, instead of a new Node-Red container #1838

Closed glecoz closed 7 months ago

glecoz commented 7 months ago

Problem/Motivation

I have an existing Node-Red instance on another RPi. It would be nice if we could just point this addon to an existing Node-red URL (optionnaly with credentials) instead of getting a new instance.

I know I could re-import all my existing Node-red flows and plugins, but I only use HASS as a front-end on purpose, all my HA backend code (Node.js / PHP microservices) is through MQTT calls <-> Node-Red <-> HASS, to remain loosely coupled to one or more front-ends, and I don't want to lose critical Node-red access (temp / motion sensors, wall switches,etc...) if my HASS instance gets broken for some reason.

But having all monitoring interfaces accessible also from HASS is relevant (Loki / Grafana for log management, Node-Red...).

Expected behavior

Addon Install Option A : as is (new Node-Red instance) Addon Install Option B : only set existing Node-red url + username + password on this addon config files.

frenck commented 7 months ago

This is not in scope of this add-on.

This add-on contains Node-RED itself.

../Frenck