I am beginning to expand an application to 2 instances of Node-RED. This is to separate defined core functions which we do not want to expose to technicians, and the individual installation particulars of integration to sensors and devices. The initial instance is installed globally. There will b…

Hello, Personally I use mqtt for communication both between nodered instances and nodered and other devices. I find mqtt to be very robust with very little overhead. It’s a mature protocol and easy to implement across a wide range of services. It can be used not just to communicate from nodered bu…

Also worth noting that you can do quite fine-grained configuration of MQTT if you need to. You might want this in order to ensure that messages are only able to flow from your core instance.

@JGKK , Thank you for your assistance. Here is what I did. Found MQTT broker in the "flows" Node-RED Library under "MQTT-" search... which got me. " node-red-contrib-mqtt-broker". That one is obsoleted and references to a node which is still in service. " node-red-contrib-mqtt-aedes". I install…

I suggest using mosquitto broker rather than a node red node acting as a broker. That way you more options for the configuration and it does not run in the same thread as node red.

Ok, point taken. I will take a look into it. To be honest about it. I was looking for a quick proof of concept and a test for my own satisfaction to successfully separate 2 Node-RED instances and communicate between them. I looked at MQTT earlier and since my background is not communications, i…

[image] tree-frog: I'll look it up and see if I can install it in Windows. Yes, it works fine under windows. It installs it as a Windows service as you would expect.

Hi, I too was 'scared' of MQTT but made the decision to try it out. In reading all 'the stuff', it seemed so difficult, but then, don't read too much into the protocol just to get it running, the rest comes later. I installed, the Mosquitto broker, enabled MQTT on the sensor, messed around with C…

Having a separate tool to view what is happening is essential in my view and we often forget to tell people that. Without a separate tool, it is really hard to know what is going on. With a tool it is much easier. I dislike Java apps generally (slow and cumbersome, resource hogs). I used to always …

Downloaded "mosquitto-2.0.5-install-windows-x64.exe". Symantec is cataching it on "information on this file is inconclusive" "We reccommend not using this file". Comments? What download options do you recommend? or, Do I just ignore the issue and install it?

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Please don't double post (Mosquitto MQTT Broker and Symantec)

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