I have recently gone through the pain of learning Node Red and created my dashboard which I rather like, however accessing it away from the home Venus.local is a royal pain in the backside as the proxy server times out. Not wanting to open up any ports on the router I decided to go through that whole lot of pain again and learn how to use Home Assistant. Many late nights and a disgruntled wife later I’ve learnt a lot over the last 2 months but I am well and truly stuck now so need the help of the community because if I don’t start watching boring TV and sit with the O Mighty one I’m going to be living in the shed.
Please can some one in very simple terms step by step guide to morons tell me how I can transfer my dashboard in the node red side of things in HA. I have signed up to Nabu Casa gateway of HA to make things easier (or so I thought). I have installed MQTT Explorer, Node Red and a whole bunch of other things to try and get this working. Like a complete novice I have failed miserably, no amount of you tube has helped as there doesn’t seem to be a video on how to do this. Believe me once this has been done by my good self I will be making one. I have probably done some of the things you may suggest but clearly the numpty in me has surfaced.
This is a desperate shout out for help, I need to get my life back on track with life stuff.
In Home Assistant I only use the integration of Victron, after which all entities are available.
To make Home Assistant accessible from outside, I use either VPN or Port Forward. I do not wish to use cloud applications myself.
I only use Node-Red in the Venus environment to program the necessary controls.
Basically I have already made the nodes for the victron system in the VRM. Can I simply import those nodes and use them in HA? to save rebuilding the HA dashboard and messing about with the configuration.yaml incorporating the the long winded MQTT coding for each device
On a side note to what you wrote in your very descriptive (and amusing :)) first post, the Node-red timeout thing can be solved by accessing Node-red via the http://Cerbo Ip Addess:1881 method rather than via VRM/Venus OS Large/Node-red method. I found that some months ago accessing via the VRM page resulted in a timeout after not very long at all and it got right on my nerves as well.
Indeed but accessing it via the cerbo ip address also requires you to be on local internet. I need to be able to access it further than my garden gate. I have built a very informative dashboard via local but want to see the thing from afar
It will allow you to access VenusOS from anywhere in the world by using the IP address that Tailscale provides. Including the GUI, SSH & NodeRed (if you specify the :1881 after the IP address).
It is true as you’ve pointed out. Kevin said he would not support Victron gui v2 which is why he’s advising if you go to v2 you can’t use gui mods from 3.50, if you still use 3.50 with gui 1 you can still use his mods but support is stopping
