Created a simple openzwave control panel with Node-Red-Dashboard

[robertsLando]

Here is the link to the flow: https://flows.nodered.org/flow/41ae75dbfbe6465d5cf40248e2500e0a

Enjoy 😄

[ekarak]

Nice! I think of adding it into the documentation for people to quickly get started with OpenZWave on NodeRed. Can you please add some links to the extra nodes you're using (like the ui-stuff)? Even better, can you open up a pull request with instructions for beginners as how to install these extra nodes?

[robertsLando]

'ui-stuff' nodes are node-red-dashboard nodes, the official dashboard of node-red. It can be installed from node-red manage-palette or by simply run npm install node-red-dashboard command in your node-red install directory.

The 'hardest part' is to install and compile open-zwave libraries. I had lot problems while I have started my project because I was using last Raspbian Stretch image, I had to use Raspbian Jessie than everything has start working perfectly.

I think this can be enought to use the flow I have provided, If you need any other info let me know.

[ekarak]

you're right. It seems that the node-red-contrib-ui is deprecated in favour of node-red-dashboard.
I've now got your flow running (under Stretch btw) but I'm still having some (css?) issues, as the node template won't play the valueIDs:

[robertsLando]

Are you using last node-red-dasboard and node-red version? I think the problem maybe is the dimension of the widget that contains the ui-template. Check that the dimensions of ui-template is not 'Auto' but a fixed value (try with 18x24) because dimension is calculated based on ui-template content but at init template has no content and so the dimension is 0x0 than it is not updated. To set the width of the widget > 6 you have to check that the ui-group that contains the ui-widget has the width you need (default it's 6)