# Category "Hardware" **URL:** \ **Category:** Meta\ **Created:** [30 August 2018 10:58 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/category-hardware/2693 "2018-08-30T10:58:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1

**Author:** ![ghayne](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/ghayne/32/39_2.png) [@ghayne](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/ghayne)\ **Post date:** [30 August 2018 10:58 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/category-hardware/2693/1 "2018-08-30T10:58:16Z")

I would like to suggest that a new category "Hardware" would be useful for discussing hardware, interfacing, sensors etc. What do others think? ---

**Author:** ![ghayne](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/ghayne/32/39_2.png) [@ghayne](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/ghayne)\ **Post date:** [31 August 2018 21:15 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/category-hardware/2693/2 "2018-08-31T21:15:47Z")

Ah well! No others apart from the likers. ---

**Author:** ![knolleary](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/knolleary/32/3_2.png) [@knolleary](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/knolleary)\ **Post date:** [31 August 2018 21:56 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/category-hardware/2693/3 "2018-08-31T21:56:22Z")

Sorry, I missed your post the first time around. Happy to create the category when I'm next near my laptop to do it. Not sure when that will be now . ---

**Author:** ![ghayne](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/ghayne/32/39_2.png) [@ghayne](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/ghayne)\ **Post date:** [5 September 2018 18:54 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/category-hardware/2693/4 "2018-09-05T18:54:52Z")

@knolleary, did you forget? 🙂 ---

**Author:** ![knolleary](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/knolleary/32/3_2.png) [@knolleary](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/knolleary)\ **Post date:** [5 September 2018 20:26 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/category-hardware/2693/5 "2018-09-05T20:26:08Z")

> [@ghayne](#): > > did you forget? Yes. Now created. ---

**Author:** ![drmibell](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/drmibell/32/8424_2.png) [@drmibell](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/drmibell)\ **Post date:** [6 September 2018 16:10 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/category-hardware/2693/6 "2018-09-06T16:10:10Z")

@knolleary Excellent. What is your philosophy on changing categories retroactively? There have been quite a few posts recently on Modbus issues (for example) that might belong in the "hardware" category. ---

**Author:** ![dceejay](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/dceejay/32/38_2.png) [@dceejay](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/dceejay)\ **Post date:** [6 September 2018 16:17 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/category-hardware/2693/7 "2018-09-06T16:17:08Z")

Where appropriate we do move posts. As usual though Modbus itself is (to my mind) more software than hardware - though intimately tied to hardware I grant you... - I was think more along the lines of sensors and how to connect my xyz esp sonoff chip, how to control leds etc.. - but yeah - can move any we feel would benefit. ---

**Author:** ![krambriw](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/krambriw/32/5429_2.png) [@krambriw](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/krambriw)\ **Post date:** [6 September 2018 17:43 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/category-hardware/2693/8 "2018-09-06T17:43:20Z")

Just a thought, imagine a set of Nodes primarily developed to support a specific hardware. In what category is it best to place such? In "Share Your Nodes" or in "Hardware"? Related questions & answers could be a mix, starting with assumptions about sw bugs but ending up in wrong handling of the hardware itself. Maybe not a big problem but I can imagine a Node developer/contributer might have to monitor both categories ---

**Author:** ![dceejay](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/dceejay/32/38_2.png) [@dceejay](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/dceejay)\ **Post date:** [6 September 2018 17:55 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/category-hardware/2693/9 "2018-09-06T17:55:34Z")

“Share your...” categories are meant for announcements and gallery of completed works. Hardware (and others) for questions and usual chat. ---

**Author:** ![ghayne](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/ghayne/32/39_2.png) [@ghayne](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/ghayne)\ **Post date:** [6 September 2018 21:20 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/category-hardware/2693/10 "2018-09-06T21:20:11Z")

Where you post is not really important, what you post is 🙂 ---

**Author:** ![drmibell](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/drmibell/32/8424_2.png) [@drmibell](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/drmibell)\ **Post date:** [6 September 2018 22:14 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/category-hardware/2693/11 "2018-09-06T22:14:21Z")

> [@ghayne](#): > > Where you post is not really important, what you post is 🙂 Agreed, but some of us fall so far behind in our reading 😒 that having categories can help set priorities. I welcome new (well-defined) categories, if they help turn the General one into more of a "general interest" category and less of a catch-all for things that don't fit elsewhere. ---

**Author:** ![ghayne](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/ghayne/32/39_2.png) [@ghayne](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/ghayne)\ **Post date:** [7 September 2018 08:30 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/category-hardware/2693/12 "2018-09-07T08:30:36Z")

> [@drmibell](#): > > but some of us fall so far behind in our reading Very true Mike, I spent a day getting Linux set up on a new Laptop (convertible) and now have to get through lots of new posts.