Hi Everyone, I am newbie & just learning Node Red. So i need help! I need to get status of 23 different machines by using 4 different buttons and need to show all this information in a single dashboard. My idea is to use 23 different PI on a same network and send data using MQTT and run Node Red o…

You need to speak with Andrew @Trying_to_learn , he has built such a system.

@Trying_to_learn Hi Andrew please take a look. Thanks.

The concept of using MQTT on the PC with a master dashboard to display the information from all the machines is a good plan I think. Though you might like to consider the idea of a separate server to run node red and the broker on, and connect to that with your PC (or any other PC or device on the …

thanks, what are the pros and cons of using IBM Cloud for Master Dashboard, rather than a designated PC running 24/7?

[image] HZB: what are the pros and cons of using IBM Cloud for Master Dashboard Because a cloud server will have redundancy, with almost guaranteed uptime, whilst a local PC may have increased downtime - power cuts, updates, faults, etc. It depends how important that the resilience of your m…

A con is that if the internet connection goes down then you have no dashboard.

Yeah, I've got a similar thing going. (Not to show off, but this is a screen shot of my equivalent to what you want to do.) [Screenshot from 2021-02-03 12-29-34] But you really need to take it in steps. First off determine EXACTLY what you want the machines to do. What information they send, e…

@HZB Another idea you might like to consider is to have local mosquitto brokers on each of the Pis (which is very easy to setup) and use MQTT Bridging to automatically synchronise selected topics with your central broker. Then you could have both a Cloud broker and one on the PC (both bridged from …

[image] HZB: Can you recommend me any example to learn how to use MQTT The best introduction I have found is MQTT Essentials - All Core Concepts Explained . You can work through it online, or I see there is now a e-book available.

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Can you recommend me any example to learn how to use MQTT. I am really noob in this matter. Just started Node Red and it's fun and good. Thanks

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