At the heart of the home automation and crazy smart lights system is Node-Red Running on a Raspberry Pi. A wonderful tool for us visual learners that provides “Low-code programming for event-driven applications” It’s the ‘If this happens, then do something else’ environment for making stuff work quickly. Here’s a screenshot of a ‘Flow’ that takes sensor data from 1 device and publishes it for other devices to see, and stores the data in Influx DB for lovely visuals in Grafana
