In Home Assistant, automating tasks is done through a number of form-based screens under Automations, Scenes, Scripts and Helpers. You specify the entities, conditions, triggers and actions that are to be performed in templates. An alternative to this is flow-based automation. I prefer the flow-based approach over the form-based method because it offers flow visualization, and without the verboseness of forms. Node-RED is the tool … Continue reading Automation with Node-RED