Best-practices, tutorials and troubleshooting guides for the popular open-source tool Node-RED.
Step-by-step guide for connecting TimescaleDB/PostgreSQL to Node-RED. Learn to fix SSL certificate errors, adjust pg_hba.conf, and bypass self-signed certificate issues with a Function node. Covers secure configurations and non-SSL setups in IIoT environments using united-manufacturing-hub.
Yes, we’ve made it possible to bring Node-RED-style simplicity into Benthos pipelines, enabling your chosen LLM to handle tedious manufacturing connectivity and contextualization tasks—whether you’re prototyping or managing production-grade data flows.
Learn how to securely expose Grafana and Node-RED on the United Manufacturing Hub (UMH) using SSL/TLS encryption. This advanced tutorial guides you through generating certificates, creating Kubernetes Secrets, and configuring Ingress resources to enable secure HTTPS access via custom domain names.
Learn to change the Node-RED instance timezone in the UMH from 'Europe/Berlin' to your preferred timezone. Find easy step-by-step instructions for using Lens/UMHLens and the Helm Chart for quick updates.
Learn the basics of data contextualization with Node-RED to process simulated sensor data and fit it into the United Manufacturing Hub datamodel.
Access useful Grafana templates to monitor the OEE, status, and production of different machines in your factory, along with Node-RED templates for data acquisition and manipulation. Check out our Community Repository on Github now.
Learn how to export and import nodes/flows in Node-RED easily with these step-by-step instructions.
Learn how to set up Node-RED flows to monitor a simulated production line's state, machine processing speed, and production counts using MQTT and UMH data model conversion.
Learn how to create a Node-RED flow with simulated OPC-UA data using node-red-contrib-opcua and MQTT. Follow these step-by-step instructions to build the flow and check the data in Grafana.
Learn how to customize a Node-RED Docker instance to connect to SAP SQL Anywhere using ODBC driver. Follow step-by-step instructions to build and push the container to your repository and add it as a custom microservice in UMH Helm chart.
Software programs that can be found in a lot of IIoT implementations
In this troubleshooting guide, you will learn how to solve the problem of negative values (garbage values) returned by PLC data tags. This issue can occur when extracting data from a PLC, such as a Mitsubishi, and the extraction program assumes the value is signed when it is actually unsigned.
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