# Share Your Projects

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## [Monitor if laptop is on mains power or battery](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/monitor-if-laptop-is-on-mains-power-or-battery/98605)

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**Author:** [@TotallyInformation](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/TotallyInformation)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [11 August 2025 17:08 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/monitor-if-laptop-is-on-mains-power-or-battery/98605 "2025-08-11T17:08:06Z")

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Here is a little project I've been meaning to do for ages. It produces an output whenever the laptop power changes between mains power and battery power. Note that your Linux laptop will need sudo apt install libdbus-1…

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## [Getting more accurate results from AI when coding](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/getting-more-accurate-results-from-ai-when-coding/98551)

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**Author:** [@TotallyInformation](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/TotallyInformation)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [7 August 2025 09:16 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/getting-more-accurate-results-from-ai-when-coding/98551 "2025-08-07T09:16:26Z")

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For anyone wanting to use my web components or uibuilder and wanting coding help from AI, you might like to investigate Context7. It allows anyone to submit links to project documentation and provides an MCP service that…

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## [Pure fun with Alexa and Alexa Skills](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/pure-fun-with-alexa-and-alexa-skills/46867)

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**Author:** [@dynamicdave](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/dynamicdave)\
**Replies:** 158\
**Last updated:** [3 August 2025 08:00 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/pure-fun-with-alexa-and-alexa-skills/46867 "2025-08-03T08:00:01Z")

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Now the authentication problem with various Alexa nodes has been sorted I thought I'd try something new. I used BluePrints to create a Q&A skill called 'Give me a status report' then linked that in the flow below. I've…

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## [Portable Node-RED v2.1.3](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/portable-node-red-v2-1-3/53244)

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**Author:** [@mdkrieg](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/mdkrieg)\
**Replies:** 44\
**Last updated:** [22 July 2025 18:02 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/portable-node-red-v2-1-3/53244 "2025-07-22T18:02:27Z")

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Today I needed a portable version of Node-RED to do something on a machine that I don't want to install Node onto and was pretty pleased with the result I got using electron-forge. I know others have accomplished this b…

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## [Factory Metrics](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/factory-metrics/96298)

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**Author:** [@gerrybartley](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/gerrybartley)\
**Replies:** 10\
**Last updated:** [17 July 2025 02:47 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/factory-metrics/96298 "2025-07-17T02:47:14Z")

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We have a production line building products. Line consists of many Modules/Stations Each Module records its machine metrics into a SQL Server database via FactoryTalk middleware This is one example of some of the metri…

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## [\[tutorial\] Using Google gemini-cli in node-red on headless server](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/tutorial-using-google-gemini-cli-in-node-red-on-headless-server/98108)

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**Author:** [@bakman2](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/bakman2)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [13 July 2025 07:20 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/tutorial-using-google-gemini-cli-in-node-red-on-headless-server/98108 "2025-07-13T07:20:07Z")

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Google recently released gemini-cli, which is an REPL like interface for google's Gemini AI, they are quite generous with their free usage policies (ie. 60 requests per minute, 1K requests per day) and as it is commandl…

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## [MQTT Broker in Erlang based on Node-RED code](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/mqtt-broker-in-erlang-based-on-node-red-code/98087)

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**Author:** [@gregorius](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/gregorius)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [12 July 2025 09:42 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/mqtt-broker-in-erlang-based-on-node-red-code/98087 "2025-07-12T09:42:29Z")

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Hi There, To prove the point that it's not that hard to duplicate Node-RED in Erlang, here is an Erlang-Red flow based off the work of @cymplecy creating an MQTT Broker in Node-RED. The flow can also be viewed in the s…

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## [New info page for my home dashboard](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/new-info-page-for-my-home-dashboard/97549)

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**Author:** [@TotallyInformation](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/TotallyInformation)\
**Replies:** 15\
**Last updated:** [6 July 2025 12:56 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/new-info-page-for-my-home-dashboard/97549 "2025-07-06T12:56:41Z")

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OK, so I've had some time off this week. Time to work on both uibuilder and my web components. :smiley: But also time to do a bit of well overdue work on my home dashboard. A new summary page is in the works: Sti…

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## [PM2 Dashboard monitoring](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/pm2-dashboard-monitoring/97869)

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**Author:** [@gerrybartley](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/gerrybartley)\
**Replies:** 11\
**Last updated:** [5 July 2025 12:55 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/pm2-dashboard-monitoring/97869 "2025-07-05T12:55:01Z")

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For those of you using pm2 to launch and monitor your instances, this flow lets you monitor from within Node-Red Update 04-Jul-2025 Just realised that port info is not available via the pm2 command. In my case I had se…

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## [Single Sensor Node (ESP32-S2-Mini or RPi Pico-W)](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/single-sensor-node-esp32-s2-mini-or-rpi-pico-w/84951)

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**Author:** [@dynamicdave](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/dynamicdave)\
**Replies:** 38\
**Last updated:** [5 July 2025 07:46 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/single-sensor-node-esp32-s2-mini-or-rpi-pico-w/84951 "2025-07-05T07:46:36Z")

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The project is based on an ESP32-S2-Mini and can be deployed to sense temperature, humidity and air pressure in any geographical location. All it needs is access to a WiFi Access Point and a (local or remote) MQTT broker…

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## [KNMI Weather dashboard (free api key)](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/knmi-weather-dashboard-free-api-key/87613)

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**Author:** [@homeplayer](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/homeplayer)\
**Replies:** 8\
**Last updated:** [2 July 2025 22:12 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/knmi-weather-dashboard-free-api-key/87613 "2025-07-02T22:12:33Z")

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Description: Check out this Node-RED flow for a dynamic weather dashboard! Utilizing APIs to fetch live weather data, this flow showcases current weather conditions along with forecasted data. With clean UI component…

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## [Manage your jk-bms (1 to 15) with wired rs485 or with an Ip Gateway](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/manage-your-jk-bms-1-to-15-with-wired-rs485-or-with-an-ip-gateway/97859)

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**Author:** [@Jean-Luc](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Jean-Luc)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [29 June 2025 07:02 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/manage-your-jk-bms-1-to-15-with-wired-rs485-or-with-an-ip-gateway/97859 "2025-06-29T07:02:07Z")

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Hello, I've written an open source program that lets you read and write parameters for BMS from the JKong company, often referred to as jkbms or jk-bms. You can find it on Github here There is also a topic on my forum …

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## [Connections to Node-Red Instances](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/connections-to-node-red-instances/97760)

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**Author:** [@gerrybartley](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/gerrybartley)\
**Replies:** 13\
**Last updated:** [27 June 2025 21:44 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/connections-to-node-red-instances/97760 "2025-06-27T21:44:13Z")

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Here's something you might find useful. I'm running several instances of Node-RED. This flow displays the number of connections to each instance using the exec node and ss -tn src :port command This is the flow \[{"id"…

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## [FlowFuse Assistant to build custom Dashboard elements](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/flowfuse-assistant-to-build-custom-dashboard-elements/97774)

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**Author:** [@joepavitt](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/joepavitt)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [25 June 2025 05:25 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/flowfuse-assistant-to-build-custom-dashboard-elements/97774 "2025-06-25T05:25:00Z")

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Hi All, thanks to some great work from @Steve-Mcl, we're about to ship a great new feature to FlowFuse whereby you can use AI to create Dashboard widgets: Resulting in: You can see a video recording of it here on…

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## [A small SPEED-TEST flow Dashboard 2 nodes](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/a-small-speed-test-flow-dashboard-2-nodes/97718)

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**Author:** [@Trying\_to\_learn](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Trying_to_learn)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [20 June 2025 21:02 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/a-small-speed-test-flow-dashboard-2-nodes/97718 "2025-06-20T21:02:41Z")

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DASHBOARD-2 nodes. also required: (Ubuntu) sudo apt install speedtest (there is a -cli version available too.) \[{"id":"ef4a762fbd189044","type":"inject","z":"b39000460508d582","name":"Test","props":\[{"p":"payload"},…

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## [Self-Programming CNC Toolpaths](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/self-programming-cnc-toolpaths/97611)

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**Author:** [@dudleyjosh](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/dudleyjosh)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [13 June 2025 17:51 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/self-programming-cnc-toolpaths/97611 "2025-06-13T17:51:04Z")

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I shared the origins of this project a couple of years ago (Precision CNC Masking Machine using Node-RED Dashboard & GRBL32 CNC Control)... I thought this newest functionality was worth an update. The machine can now pr…

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## [Como instalar electron e electron-compiler devidamente?](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/como-instalar-electron-e-electron-compiler-devidamente/97559)

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**Author:** [@Facanhalima](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Facanhalima)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [11 June 2025 17:14 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/como-instalar-electron-e-electron-compiler-devidamente/97559 "2025-06-11T17:14:02Z")

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Ao tentar utilizar o electron e o electron-compiler para gerar um executável, tive problemas com as dependências internas gerênciadas pelo pnpm como @eslint, alegando que foi deprecado e não consegue dar suporte as bibli…

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## [Power flow card - again](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/power-flow-card-again/87047)

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**Author:** [@WP-Rue](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/WP-Rue)\
**Replies:** 8\
**Last updated:** [11 June 2025 08:38 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/power-flow-card-again/87047 "2025-06-11T08:38:54Z")

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Again a reopen of power card topic- see(Energy flow widget) Here my implementation based on the work of some people of this forum: Thanks a lot! :slightly\_smiling\_face: flows(84).json (40.3 KB)

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## [A flow to gather system information when reporting issues etc](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/a-flow-to-gather-system-information-when-reporting-issues-etc/97540)

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**Author:** [@Sean-McG](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Sean-McG)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [11 June 2025 01:19 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/a-flow-to-gather-system-information-when-reporting-issues-etc/97540 "2025-06-11T01:19:29Z")

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When reporting issues on the forum, it's much easier to help if all the important information is included. This flow collects most of the helpful information in one place, like this. If you don't want to share network d…

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## [🕸️ @totallyinformation/web-components: v1.3.1 release 2025-06-09](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/totallyinformation-web-components-v1-3-1-release-2025-06-09/97514)

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**Author:** [@TotallyInformation](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/TotallyInformation)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [9 June 2025 16:17 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/totallyinformation-web-components-v1-3-1-release-2025-06-09/97514 "2025-06-09T16:17:58Z")

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Hi again - a new release of the Totally Information web components package today for your pleasure. Links: npm, GitHub. These are not specific to Node-RED or to UIBUILDER and all of the components will work without eit…

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## [UIBUILDER: Example web page layout #2 (Dashboard Style)](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/uibuilder-example-web-page-layout-2-dashboard-style/90586)

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**Author:** [@TotallyInformation](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/TotallyInformation)\
**Replies:** 18\
**Last updated:** [8 June 2025 13:10 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/uibuilder-example-web-page-layout-2-dashboard-style/90586 "2025-06-08T13:10:59Z")

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UPDATE 2025-06-08: Note that UIBUILDER includes fully working example flows for both this grid/dashboard style layout and the blog/news style layout. Import from Node-RED's examples library. From v7.4 of UIBUILDER, th…

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## [@totallyinformation/web-components: v1.2.0 release 2025-06-01](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/totallyinformation-web-components-v1-2-0-release-2025-06-01/97342)

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**Author:** [@TotallyInformation](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/TotallyInformation)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [1 June 2025 19:00 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/totallyinformation-web-components-v1-2-0-release-2025-06-01/97342 "2025-06-01T19:00:32Z")

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Please note that I will continue to add to this thread with new releases. Please check the title and the end of the thread to see the updates. Hi all, I am pleased to announce the arrival of the first full release of m…

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## [NPM Stats dashboard](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/npm-stats-dashboard/97387)

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**Author:** [@TotallyInformation](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/TotallyInformation)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [2 June 2025 16:27 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/npm-stats-dashboard/97387 "2025-06-02T16:27:51Z")

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A quick share from my ongoing Home dashboard (that uses UIBUILDER rather than D1 or D2). I publish a number of npm packages and I've been keeping track of their stats from the start. I keep these in a persistent global …

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## [Show Node-RED logs from within Node-RED (Linux only)](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/show-node-red-logs-from-within-node-red-linux-only/97269)

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**Author:** [@TotallyInformation](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/TotallyInformation)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [31 May 2025 08:35 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/show-node-red-logs-from-within-node-red-linux-only/97269 "2025-05-31T08:35:31Z")

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I know that some folk have difficulty accessing Node-RED logs and sharing them. So it occurred to me that it might be useful to be able to surface the log in Node-RED itself. Then you could forward it anywhere you like.…

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## [Home Surveillance System (HSS) - UPDATE and UPGRADE](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/home-surveillance-system-hss-update-and-upgrade/74699)

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**Author:** [@dynamicdave](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/dynamicdave)\
**Replies:** 22\
**Last updated:** [31 May 2025 05:43 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/home-surveillance-system-hss-update-and-upgrade/74699 "2025-05-31T05:43:35Z")

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UPDATE to HSS (for existing users) David (@dynamicdave), Paul (@zenofmud and Walter (@krambriw) are pleased to announce an update to their Home Surveillance System (HSS) project based on Node-RED running on a Raspberry …

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## [CSS Styling for Dashboard 2 Clocks](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/css-styling-for-dashboard-2-clocks/97239)

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**Author:** [@jbudd](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/jbudd)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [26 May 2025 11:28 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/css-styling-for-dashboard-2-clocks/97239 "2025-05-26T11:28:22Z")

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@hotNipi recently published his delightful dashboard clock as a DB2 template. This flow is a clock design tool which lets you change the appearance of most components. It includes a few preset designs as examples. I…

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## [Screen Lock for Dashboard 2.0](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/screen-lock-for-dashboard-2-0/97255)

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**Author:** [@cgjgh](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/cgjgh)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [26 May 2025 06:59 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/screen-lock-for-dashboard-2-0/97255 "2025-05-26T06:59:26Z")

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Sharing a project designed for an HMI/Kiosk application using Dashboard 2.0 with an autolocking screen lock, to gauge interest and see if others have needed something similar. Will consider opening a PR and merging if th…

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## [Processing OutdoorActive weekly suggested walking routes and displaying a catalogue](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/processing-outdooractive-weekly-suggested-walking-routes-and-displaying-a-catalogue/97262)

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**Author:** [@TotallyInformation](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/TotallyInformation)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [25 May 2025 16:47 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/processing-outdooractive-weekly-suggested-walking-routes-and-displaying-a-catalogue/97262 "2025-05-25T16:47:20Z")

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OutdooActive is a mobile app and website that I use for walking and cycling. You can set up your own routes, record tracks, get access to great maps. But they also have shared routes that you can use. Some from magazines…

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## [Flow testsuite for testing core node functionality](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/flow-testsuite-for-testing-core-node-functionality/97106)

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**Author:** [@gregorius](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/gregorius)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [18 May 2025 12:01 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/flow-testsuite-for-testing-core-node-functionality/97106 "2025-05-18T12:01:20Z")

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Hi There, As part of my Erlang-RED project, I have now create another repository for collecting together test flows that test the basic functionality of the core nodes (i.e. those that are pre-installed) --\> erlang-red-…

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## [Atmospheric pressure with Trend calculator](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/atmospheric-pressure-with-trend-calculator/97060)

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**Author:** [@repho](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/repho)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [14 May 2025 09:23 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/atmospheric-pressure-with-trend-calculator/97060 "2025-05-14T09:23:00Z")

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I've been suggested to share my little project, so here it is. I have a atmospheric pressure sensor and wanted to get a little weather prediction on my dashboard: And here are the nodes used to get this: \[ {…

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