Now what do i dol ive created a working project?

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node red 3.0 on raspberry pi 3b+

ive created a simple project to switch things on and off using a small touch screen in my overlander land rover .... im using a HID relay board and all works fine .. my question is now ive created this what do i do now? do i use the json file? and if so what do i do with it to make my pi a dedicated touch switch panel?

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Currently the way you have it setup, the only input method I can see is through Inject Nodes (Either on a schedule, or requiring manual activation).

You could add alternate input methods, like rpi-gpio in nodes, and connect physical buttons to the gpio pins to control the flow.

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The 'projects' option allows ou to have different flows saved on your device that you can load into the editor.

If the device is dedicated to a single purpose (flow) then you don't really need the projects option.

I have a Pi I use for testing. The 'projects' option is great because I can switch between projects - within the editor - by picking the project I want to load and BAM it replaces the one I was working on, so I can test whatever I want. And when I'm done, I can go back to the previous project.

Hope this helps you out.

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im using a usb so only have one wire to connect it together into the cab ... using physical buttons kinda defeats the whole object really. so i cant use them on a touch screen to switch the relays?

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oh i see i think im getting things mixed up - by project i think i did mean flow sorry. so how do i use the flows - by using the json file?

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In that case, what you may want to use is the ui_button node or the ui_template node (both are part of node-red-dashboard), to create a simple user interface for a screen. For even more options/flexibility you may want to install node-red-contrib-uibuilder instead, it's much more powerful but not as quick to setup as the other two.

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ok ive created a user interface - looked at what you sugested and looked a bit complex to me - so used what i have played with before and used dashboard - got some user buttons now - thanks for the tip

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