Hallo, I'm running 2 instances of NodeRED on NGINX in docker. One on port 1880, other on 1882. There are some events which I'd like to share from one instance to the other. What is the best way to do this? Kind regards, Peter Hunt.

How about using MQTT to send msgs between the two.

Node-RED has many ways of intercommunicating. A message queue like MQTT is indeed one of the best. However, you can use the websocket, tcp, udp and http nodes depending on needs.

Thanks both. MQTT was the first thing I thought of. Either my friend who maintains the server has blocked this interaction, or my NodeRED config is faulty. Could you please share an example of how to set up the config on both sides? If I still can't manage to get it working we will need to check se…

First you need an MQTT broker (mosquitto is my choice), then the two systems can connect to that broker using mqtt in and out nodes, and subscribe and/or publish to topics that both know about.

Since you are using Docker, you will need to make sure that the correct port(s) are open to allow traffic to move between the different Docker containers.

Just thought I'd chime in, as I use node-red in Docker as that has proved to be the only way to make it work on some Moxa UC-8100 units we use which are limited to Debian 9. If I remember correctly, there was some Python dependency that doesn't work by default.

[image] Darren: If I remember correctly, there was some Python dependency that doesn't work by default. dependency to what? Node-RED and Mosquito do not need python. Some nodes, that get compiled may need python - but not the core Node-RED nodes and not mosquito MQTT broker.

It may have been some extra nodes that we use (modbus, buffer parser, dashboard, serial port, etc.) ; it's been a few months since I sorted setup scripts. Python3 is typically installed as a dependency. It works in general.

I am not sure that this has any relevance to @Hunter 's problem.

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Colin 17 August 2023 20:05 7

Yes, I missed the reference to Docker.

@hunter are you using Docker for a reason? If you don't have a good reason then don't do it, it just adds complexity.

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