Hi folks, Last week I had some troubles with my system, which I could easily had solved when I would have been able to run some Linux commands remotely ... So I thought: how cool would it be if I had some kind of terminal window inside my Node-RED flow editor. That was the kickoff for node-red-co…

Once again, Bart, you seem to be "coloring outside the lines"... nice job! How the heck do you find all this time to spend on these custom nodes?!? Anyway, I'm confused by the use of a custom node that has to be dropped into the editor in order to open an interactive terminal window to the server. …

[image] shrickus: Are you planning on wiring a flow to either the input or output ports? Hey Steve, Thanks!! Well that was initially my idea, but of course there are already nodes available to do that... [image] shrickus: Unless I'm missing something, what do you think about implementi…

I've never tried to build a "sidebar panel" module either, but there are a couple that might give you a template to work from -- for instance, node-red-node-swagger. I've always wanted to dig into that node and fix it, but alas, between moving and the upcoming holidays... no time this year!

[image] BartButenaers: security feedback You called? :rofl: You probably aren't introducing more issues as long as the terminal runs as the same user as Node-RED which I assume it does. On the other hand, you aren't helping security either :smiley: At the very least, I would include plenty…

[image] TotallyInformation: You called? :rofl: Haha :joy:. Wanted to mention your name explicit, didn't wanted to push you... Thanks for your tips! [image] TotallyInformation: sign up for a service Never heard about that. Can you advise one? [image] shrickus: implementing this…

[image] BartButenaers: sign up for a service Never heard about that. Can you advise one? I use Snyk What is Snyk? - Developer Security Platform | Snyk I couldn't remember it last night. Also check out the settings on your GitHub as they can also do checks. npm audit can also be useful but …

[image] shrickus: node-red-node-swagger Did a quick test to show the terminal inside the right sidebar: [image] However it seems to me that I cannot save the settings now? My oneditsave is never called and my default node field values are not loaded into the node. So now I'm wondering whe…

Still haven't found a way to store the config settings for my sidebar-panel node. So I tried to move all the settings to a config node. However I'm not able to select any configuration node in my sidebar-panel node: [image] Would appreciate if anybody could give me tip, how/where I could store t…

The short answer (as I'm typing this on my phone on the way to sleep) is we don't really have a well defined model for this. The dashboard does it by creating a ui_base config node - one the user never really knows is there. There's a lot of code in the dashboard to deal with that - there can be on…

[image] knolleary: Here you are wanting a terminal window in the editor, but presumably you don't want to store its configuration in your flow? Its configuration has little to do with the running flow. Hey Nick, That is indeed all correct ... The settings are only about the visual part of t…

[ANNOUNCE] node-red-contrib-xterm (beta): Help needed

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The second beta is now released, containing a sidebar version. To avoid confusion, I propose we stop the discussion here and continue in this new discussion!

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[ANNOUNCE] node-red-contrib-xterm (beta): Help needed

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