Connect the hub with node-RED

[guyluz11]

The Hub got built around the concept of MQTT in order to use tools like Node-RED to its advantage.

Node-RED is a programming tool for wiring together hardware devices, APIs and online services in new and interesting ways.

It provides a browser-based editor that makes it easy to wire together flows using the wide range of nodes in the palette that can be deployed to its runtime in a single-click.

Node-RED is full of features and has a pretty good graphical user interface.

Let's create an integration layer with Node-RED to control and change nodes inside of it.

1. The Hub will be able to use it to control and manage nods for scenes, control devices, routines, bindings.
   Add support for Scenes #18
2. Will grant the user option to see visually his scenes, routines, bindings.
3. Will grant the user the option to create complicated scenes, routines, bindings by using the Node-RED GUI interface.
4. You can download nodes in Node-RED that will grant us more functionality like interacting with alexa skills or nodes to "communicate with Sonoff Smart Switch devices on LAN" which will add support for more devices automatically for us.

[guyluz11]

Created a question for that in the Node-RED forum

[guyluz11]

Got the following answer

The Runtime provides an HTTP Admin API - which is what the editor uses - that lets you update the flow configuration. You have to construct the appropriate JSON yourself, but you can then give it to the runtime.

https://nodered.org/docs/api/admin/methods/post/flows/

Also found this question in the forum.

[guyluz11]

Thanks