Node-RED Reviews & Product Details

The best thing about Node-RED is the ease with which we can program. Also, there is a node for everything; for MQTT, HTTP, JS Functions, SQLite, delay, split, I can go on and on. Since it supports npm packages, it is effortless to create any complicated flow. The other thing is since it is visual, it makes it that much easier to troubleshoot. The debug node is also very useful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

One thing that's difficult to work around is the global / flow variable, especially when multiple messages are coming into the flow with less gap between them. You can always use the delay node at the start of the flow to ensure the completion of the flow before the flow variable gets overwritten. Other than this, I have not experienced anything that I would dislike, and I love it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I used the Node-Red software for a research project in college where we were monitoring the pressure, temperature, and flow rate of hydrogen in a liquid hydrogen refueling container. I needed software to interact with the various mechanical components, preferably free and open source. The best part about Node-Red was that it was a free solution to our monitoring problem, and there was documentation available for connecting the 4-5 components we had to connect to monitor the hydrogen gas successfully. One example of the use was opening a solenoid valve when the pressure of the gas was too high, and implementing this in Node-Red was extremely easy and convenient. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

When I first began using the software, there was documentation for Raspberry Pi, but we were using the Revolution Pi and didn't find as much documentation related to this product. Over the years, more flows have been added for the Revolution Pi hardware, but the discussion section was also helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Node-RED is a beneficial tool to integrate all kinds of protocols and web applications services and cloud computing and best for IoT and Automation.

I enjoyed using Node-RED mostly on hardware integrations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1) Sometimes, finding errors in which flow is coming

2) importing JSON flow from some website references: If any of the tags are not available in that JSON, Node-RED shows a popup saying these Tags are not available. It will stop the remaining working deployments until it resolved by manually remove or install those tags. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

*Was pretty new to programming and got stuck up at many stages and the community was really helpful, as I have posted the issues and got help very immediately.

*And of course the compatibility, node-red is supported in almost all IoT devices like in raspberry pie, IoT devices from siemens, weidmuller etc.

*Very easy to troubleshoot and modify. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Still, many devices lack support for node-red. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like most node-red because of the organizing the flows,

we can organize the flow, can change the name also,

and most importantly, we can write our function using nodeJs,

we can connection connect hardware to any cloud Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

If anything goes wrong in-flow, sometimes node-red goes down, then we need to check the files in the machine and update,

apart from this, everything is good, Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The interface is clean. I like how I can have multiple tabs of different flows. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is nothing about Node-RED that I genuinely dislike. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Power and speed of implementation is unbeatable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Dashboard is not multi-user and some nodes don't work in newer node-red versions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

GUI is very user-friendly and easy to use. Even kids can easily understand and use it because it somewhat resembles SCRATCH Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Launching Node-RES is a bit of a hassle I think it can be improved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Node-red gives features such as UI-based development and rapid prototyping, end-to-end support for IoT solutions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Its front-end support is limited. The node-red dashboard has a set of defects, and fixing those for production deployments is difficult. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It was simple to connect IoT devices using the blocks in Node-Red. The platform provides an easy-to-use graphical user interface for students working on IoT projects. Furthermore, the connection between IoT devices is fast using the MQTT protocol. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Better documentation is necessary. Due to lack of information, it is sometimes hard to write code in the function blocks in Node-Red. I had to do research for hours. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.