Good day all,
Herewith a heads-up of changes, including a breaking one, which are coming up for the Virtual switches:
Overview of the changes
- The virtual switch nodes will support 1 switch only. It will no longer be configurable to create 4 virtual switches out of one node.
- The “Group” field, which is already available via the UI now, and allows to organize multiple switches together for the user on the same “card”, will also be configurable in the Node-RED flow. Which makes it faster to set-up, especially when developing a flow and copying that from one system to another.
- Same for the “Custom name” field.
- Outputs will be added to the Virtual switch nodes, eliminating the need to add switch nodes separately, cleaning up the canvas.
Impact on existing flows:
- Existing flows will continue to function in general after the update, ie. they won’t stop functioning in their entirety.
- Flows where multiple switches (Switch 1, 2, 3, 4) are configured in a single virtual device, only Switch 1 will remain visible in the UI. Switches 2, 3 and 4 will no longer be visible. Put differently: switches 2, 3 and 4 will be ignored; and also their configuration will no longer be accessible from the Node-RED flow editor.
How to prepare:
To avoid any issues, you can already now create separate virtual switches in your flow. And as long as you create one Virtual switch per node, then you are good.
Here is a small screenshot:
Conclusion:
This change will come in one of the next beta releases. If you have auto- update enabled for beta releases, plan accordingly. We’ll mention this as part of the change log when this is included.