Node–RED is a fantastic and powerful yet easy to use programming tool for wiring together hardware devices, APIs and online services in new and interesting ways. For more information on Node-Red go to the Node-Red site. After all, you probably don’t turn the outside lights ON at 6pm!! You most…
Category: bigtimer
BigTimer and Amazon Polly Notifications
Sometimes it can be helpful to think outside of the box and I just did. We were discussing getting Amazon Echo to give out arbitrary notifications from a Raspberry Pi + Node-Red installation and after messing about with this for a while I remembered I have an Amazon AWS account…
BigTimer 2.06 update questions answered
I’ve been asked questions about output from my Node-Red-Contrib-BigTimer in the 2.06 update and also the new(ish) “timer X” option. Here is a working demo, I’ve added a timer to my desk with a Sonoff BASIC attached and a lamp to test. Output 1 is as you can see working…
Node-Red and Alexa with Big Timer
I’ve recently updated my setup at home, finally doing away with HA-Bridge and I thought you might like to see this simple setup. So for beginners, HA-Bridge is a piece of software (a very nice piece of software) that runs on for example a Raspberry Pi, who’s job (in my…
Node-Red BigTimer Example
I am constantly asked about using Bigtimer (node-red-contrib-bigtimer) and so here’s an example of how I am using it in conjunction with both Amazon’s Alexa (voice control) – and the Node-Red Dashboard.