MQTT configuration does not get picked up within the Subflow

[shantanoo-desai]

Upon deploying the stack with the custom node-red instance which has all the dedicates subflows in them, the logs will provide the logs stating that one cannot connect to respective (external, internal) brokers since their configuration is not available.

Bug Reports

• Packaging a Subflow as a module, missing broker configuration
• My Post on the discourse forum for node-red
• Feature Request for Config nodes in Subflows

Solution / Workaround

Since there currently no config node support within subflows, the only possible way to achieve the subflow as nodes is to:

1. export them all to a JSON
2. pack them into a flows.json
3. Generate a node-red image with where the flows.json file is /data/flows.json in the image

[shantanoo-desai]

Result

By add the exported flows to /data/flows.json the node are available in the node palette