Discover C.A.F.E., the visual automation editor for Home Assistant: interest, installation via HACS, getting started, tips, and limitations in beta.

Using Home Assistant for smart home automation is for the brave. Want to make the IoT systems work with Home Assistant? You've got to put in some hours and embrace the learning curve. If you're game ...

*Here's an IBM internet-of-things coder cooking up some "flows that make flows," which seems like a nice, recursive, coder-style thing to do nowadays. *I take the trouble to post this because, when ...

How do you even begin to wrap your head around developing applications for the Internet of things? For Node.js devs, Node-red provides a useful visual development environment The Internet of things ...

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Home Assistant is hands-down the best management hub for smart devices and IoT paraphernalia, and there are plenty of tools that can extend its usefulness even further. From add-ons and integrations ...

If you prefer to draw boxes instead of writing code, you may have tried IBM’s Node-RED to create logic with drag-and-drop flows. A recent [TensorFlow] video shows an interview between [Jason Mayes] ...

When you want to connect an IoT device to anything (or, for that matter, anything to anything), you should take a serious look at Node-RED, a free, open source visual process wiring system from IBM ...

Tech projects for IT leaders: How to use RESTful APIs with Node-RED Your email has been sent While you might be familiar with APIs, we'll get into how they work and how they can be used in this tech ...