Node-RED

Well, Phil, very interesting episode today.

I know you're a big fan of Node-RED and I've seen you play with it, but we're both fans of how the industry has really brought to light what I've seen anyway, what I've learned about the open source community, the ability of these people to really grab hold and just give back to the community in a massive way.

And when you think of Node-RED as being that sort of ubiquitous sort of environment, and then people who play or develop solutions into that space, it just makes that IT, OT convergence, industry forward, you know, those things that we love, Phil.

This is going to be a really interesting conversation about someone who's really contributed a lot of it, especially in that connection of OT to IT.

So I'm very excited today to announce that we are joined today's podcast by Klaus Lansford, who's the CEO of InitiationWare and the creator of Plus for Node-RED.

And I know, Phil, you've got much more to add to that.

Thank you.

Thank you, Klaus, for joining us today.

It's just my thinking.

I actually had a talk scheduled yesterday with FlowFuse, and I had to push that another week because I was like, you know, I love Node-RED, but I need to get up to date on what you guys are doing.

Yeah,

I think there's a huge fit probably in some of the things I'm doing, especially orchestrating it.

So that's one of the drawbacks of Node-RED is like, okay, you can customize, you can have custom code running everywhere, but that's not, that doesn't really maintain very well.

So.

Yeah.

Hi, I'm Steve, VK6SJ, and this is another episode of Did You Know? This is a description of a system that a small team of us at NCRG built using accumulated knowledge and an artificial or AI application, ChatGPT.

The end result of this project is a centralised station control system for a multi-radio amateur station running in Node-RED on a Raspberry Pi and operated through a web-based interface from PCs or tablets.

The system integrates equipment from several different manufacturers, none of which were specifically designed to operate together as a single station control system.

There are two principal radio operating positions.

This is used to control the 4A-3A AntennaGenius switching system and automatically routes the appropriate antennas for each operating position.

The station has both multiband and monoband antennas.

Operators can select between these from the web interface, with Node-RED handling the underlying relay and antenna switching operations.

Five rotators are controlled by Green Heron RT21 rotator controllers.