v0.31.0 beta

[zachowj]

I wouldn't run this beta without making a backup of your flows. The migrations system has been reworked and several nodes have changed.

New nodes

• Tag (beta)
• Time (move to beta from alpha)
• Device (alpha) requires v0.5.2+ of the NR companion custom component
  • Create device based event triggers
  • Trigger device actions

Features

Async done / complete

Home Assistant nonevent nodes will notify the Node-RED runtime when it has completed its action. Basically, the complete node will now function with HA nodes.
https://nodered.org/blog/2019/08/16/going-async
https://nodered.org/blog/2019/09/20/node-done

Helper functions added to JSONata Expressions

https://zachowj.github.io/node-red-contrib-home-assistant-websocket/guide/jsonata.html

• $randomNumber
• $sampleSize

Migrations

The node migration system has been reworked and allows for updating all HA nodes with a push of a single button. With this release, a lot of nodes have changed how certain data is saved. So it is highly recommended to make a backup of your flows before doing upgrades.

Custom Outputs

• API
• Current state
• Device
• Events: all
• Events: state
• Fire event
• Poll state
• Render Template
• Tag
• Time
• Wait Until
• Webhook
• Zone

Installation

Install via npm

# change directory to location of config install
$ cd ~/.node-red
$ npm install node-red-contrib-home-assistant-websocket@beta
# then restart node-red

Home Assistant Node-RED Add-on

Add to add-on config

npm_packages:
  - node-red-contrib-home-assistant-websocket@beta