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Community News September 2023
Welcome to the FlowFuse newsletter for September 2023, a monthly roundup of what’s been happening with FlowFuse and the wider Node-RED community.
New Name
The big news this month is that FlowForge is now FlowFuse. Yes, we have changed our name but we are still focus on delivering great products for the Node-RED community.
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FlowFuse announces a Node-RED stack for Industry 4.0 applications on ctrlX AUTOMATION
FlowFuse is pleased to announce they are now offering Node-RED plus select third party nodes from the Bosch Rexroth ctrlX World marketplace.
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Dynamic Markdown, Tables & Notebooks with Dashboard 2.0
Whilst we're still busy backporting through the existing Dashboard 1.0 features, we did want to highlight some new features we've built in Dashboard 2.0 released this week.
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FlowFuse Cloud Starter package - The easiest way to get started with Node-RED
FlowFuse is used by businesses and hobbyists alike. We aim to provide a platform that meets the needs of both, recognizing the importance of hobbyists in the Node-RED community and the long term success of FlowFuse as a company. We want to make it as easy as possible for people to get started on FlowFuse Cloud and help them understand the full value the platform offers. One of the barriers we've seen has been the current pricing structure of FlowFuse Cloud.
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FlowFuse 1.11 makes it easier to get started with FlowFuse and Node-RED
FlowFuse 1.11 introduces a new starter tier for FlowFuse Cloud that makes it easier to get started with FlowFuse and Node-RED.
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FlowFuse is now available on AWS Marketplace
Many customers want to run FlowFuse in their own cloud environment, AWS being a great example. Today we're excited to announce that FlowFuse is now available from the AWS Marketplace. This makes it very easy for customers to install and run Node-RED and FlowFuse within minutes.
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Our Open Source offering is a tier, not our competition
More than once we’ve been in discussion with prospective customers on what tier is the right tier for their current Node-RED adoption. The question is likely to come up "Why wouldn't we just use the open source version of FlowFuse?". The implicit discussion created is one that is alike the question: “Why wouldn’t we go with your competition?”. For FlowFuse, and most other open-core companies like us, the open licensed and free to use core is tier, not competition.
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FlowForge is now FlowFuse
We are happy to announce that FlowForge is changing its name to FlowFuse. Changing our corporate identity wasn’t our top priority but a recent trademark challenge has promoted us to create a new brand for our company.
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Dashboard 2.0 - Community Update
Welcome to the latest Node-RED Dashboard 2.0 update. We've added lots of new widgets, cleaned up compatibility issues alongside Dashboard 1.0 and made strides to improve the events system linking the Node-RED editor with the Dashboard.
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Why the Automation Pyramid blocks digital transformation - The Role of Unified Namespace
A few years ago, I wrote an article, in German, detailing my understanding of how the Automation Pyramid, a widely adopted reference model for the IT landscape of manufacturing firms, is essentially hindering digital transformation. Now, as conversations around the Unified Namespace (UNS) and particular frameworks continue to evolve, I revisit my earlier notions, review the latest updates to reference frameworks, and update my article.
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Community News August 2023
Welcome to the FlowFuse newsletter for August 2023, a monthly roundup of what’s been happening with FlowFuse and the wider Node-RED community.
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FlowFuse 1.10 Release Now Available
FlowFuse 1.10 release includes improvements to device management and importing environment variable templates.
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How to Build an OPC UA Client Dashboard in Node-RED - Part 3
This article is the third and final part of our OPC UA content series. In the first article, we cover some OPC UA fundamentals and walk through an example OPC UA Server flow. In the second article, we built a SSL-secured OPC UA server using data from an Allen Bradley PLC as a source. In this article, we show how to build an OPC Client in Node-RED that communicates with a 3rd party OPC UA Server and utilizes an interactive dashboard.
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First Pre-Alpha Release of the new Node-RED Dashboard
Just weeks ago, we at FlowFuse announced our plan to develop a successor to the Node-RED Dashboard. Today, we're excited to reveal the pre-alpha release of this highly anticipated project, bringing us one step closer to a new era of data visualization in Node-RED.
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How to add images to Node-RED dashboards when using FlowFuse
Using images in your Node-RED dashboards can significantly improve your users' experience. The most common method to add images to dashboards is to store them within the filesystem of an Node-RED instance but sometimes that's not an option. How can you easily use images when working in a containerized environment such as Docker, or Kubernetes? We will also explore latest feature from FlowFuse that makes this step super easy.
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FlowFuse 1.9.3 and Device Agent 1.9.5 released
FlowFuse and the Device Agent both received updates yesterday that bring improvements to the Device Agent editor experience, making it more resilient to network issues.
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Creating a Historical Data Dashboard with InfluxDB and Node-RED
Every new dashboard is met with the fast-following request, “can we save this data and somehow look back on it?” Yes, you can, and let’s use InfluxDB to make it happen!
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How to Deploy a Basic OPC-UA Server in Node-RED - Part 1
This article is the first part of a series of OPC-UA content. Here, we will explain some basic concepts of OPC-UA as they apply to building a server in Node-RED, then walk through and deploy an example OPC-UA Server.
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Community News July 2023
Welcome to the FlowFuse newsletter for July 2023, a monthly roundup of what’s been happening with FlowFuse and the wider Node-RED community.