News from the FRED team at Sense Tecnic New nodes and tutorial – Samsung Artik We’ve created and released a set of nodes for the Samsung Artik IoT boards. These are designed to run under Node-RED on the boards themselves and provide access to, and control of the hardware pins including analogue and digital IO and pwm. If you pair…
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Sense Tecnic (and Node-RED) join the newly formed JavaScript foundation
We’re pleased to announce that we’ve joined the newly created JavaScript foundation – part of the Linux Foundation – which was launched today. The JS foundation will provide a home for a whole host of JS based projects, including Node-RED. We wanted to join as a founding member partly because we’ve been active…
Node-RED as a managed cloud service
FRED, our cloud based version of Node-RED is a great tool for developers who want to use it for rapid development of IoT apps. The combination of a visual drag ‘n drop interface and set of pre-built nodes makes it easy to quickly develop IoT apps. But FRED is also available as a branded, or white label service for you…
New nodes for Node-RED on the Samsung Artik
We’ve recently released a set of nodes we have developed for the Samsung Artik boards (Artik 5 & 10). These nodes give you direct access to the hardware features of the boards including the hardware I/O pins, the ADC and the PWM. The Nodes have been published to the NPM repository – you can download and install them directly to…
Dynamic node management released
Now available: Dynamic node management We’ve released our new dynamic node management feature that allows you to dynamically add and remove nodes from your palette. When you startup FRED, you’ll see a reduced set of nodes (similar to the vanilla Node-RED). However, you can now add and remove nodes from our extended set as you wish – making it possible to only…
Need a quick Data-base in Node-RED? – Try SQLite
New Node – SQLite We’ve had several requests for the popular SQLite node for FRED. This is a powerful SQL database, running in a single file in your filestore. It offers all the power of SQL but is fast and efficient and doesn’t require you to set up an SQL server. We’ve taken the standard SQLite node for Node-RED and adapted…
The FRED (Cloud Node-RED) newsletter
Keep up to date with the FRED (Node-RED) newsletter We publish a regular newsletter for the FRED user community with updates on FRED itself, links to new tutorials, interesting examples of how FRED is in use by our customers as well as general info about Node-RED and the community. Previous editions include: July 2017: http://sensetecnic.com/newsletter-10-news-from-the-fred-cloud-node-red-team-at-sense-tecnic/ May 2017: http://sensetecnic.com/newsletter-9-news-from-the-fred-node-red-team-at-sense-tecnic/ Mar 2017: http://sensetecnic.com/newsletter-8-from-the-fred-cloud-based-node-red-team-at-sense-tecnic/ Jan 2017: http://sensetecnic.com/newsletter-7-from-the-fred-cloud-based-node-red-team-at-sense-tecnic/…
What do people use FRED (and Node-RED) for
What are people using FRED for? We have over 2000 users on FRED now doing lots of amazing things with Node-RED. We plan to start showcasing some user stories – so if you are using FRED for a cool project, let us know and we’ll feature you in a newsletter or on our web site. In the meantime, we’ve been asking…
Latest news from the FRED team
Connect FRED to your Device with the new FRED node We’ve had several requests for an easy way to connect a flow in FRED to another Node-RED flow on a Pi (or similar device). So we have developed a new node (the FRED node) that makes connecting a snap. This allows you to set up flows that push data from your…
Need your flows to run 24×7 – paid tier now available
More nodes, less restrictions: $9.99 a month For those of you who need more than the 50 node limit under the free plan, or hate having to log in every three days to keep your flows active – we’ve launched our paid tier. For $9.99 a month you get up-to 100 nodes and your flows run until you stop them. You can…