Tutorial: Node-RED dashboards – creating your own UI widget

Node-RED’s dashboard nodes provide a comprehensive set of UI components for building basic dashboards suitable for the Internet of Things (IoT) – offering graphs, gauges, basic text as well as sliders and inputs. However, there will always be situations when you need something custom. The template node is the solution and in this tutorial we’ll show you a quick example of using it to create your own UI widget. Continue reading “Tutorial: Node-RED dashboards – creating your own UI widget”

Node-RED: Lecture 7 – Dashboards and UI techniques for Node-RED

In this lecture you will take a look at a few techniques to allow you to visualize data passing through flows. We’ll focus on three approaches, the use of a third party dashboard tool, FreeBoard (Part 1), using the default Dashboard UI nodes provided by default in Node-RED (Part 2) and a general technique using a standard JavaScript charting tool (Part 3). Continue reading “Node-RED: Lecture 7 – Dashboards and UI techniques for Node-RED”