Intro to farmOS v2 sensor integration

Using farmOS
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It is actually Node-Red that does the authenticating for me although I did add it to my Home Assistant Setup.

You Can use this Flow: https://github.com/Farmer-Eds-Shed/FarmOS-Node-Red-Flows/blob/main/farmos-auth-flow.json
It creates a HTML dashboard using Node-Red UI, you may need to download some extra nodes to your pallet which is straight forward enough, Node-Red should let you know what dependencies are missing.

Or if you don’t want to have a GUI Login you can hardcode the credentials, I use a credentials node for this so as to not share my logins when I share the flows.

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Oh. thanks. I’ll try that

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I installed the missing nodes. Don’t quite get it tho…
Updated farmos url. Anything else that need configuration?
If I put an inject node first, shold that bring up the login form? Or am I missing something?

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Yes, Sorry you need to launch the dashboard :smiley:
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Go to dashboard layout and then click this
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Once you have the dash board, you can bookmark the page

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Ah… speechless…
This was cool. So then, you actually don’t need HomeAssistant to do some graphs of the sensors.

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No need for Home Assistant for sensors at all…but…

I prefer the Home Assistant Dashboards and I can integrate a lot of other stuff such as camera feeds from calving pens. It will all come down to what you want/need from it. You can often use just Home Assistant or just Node-Red for a lot of the same tasks but they also compliment each other very well.

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