Node-red, a visual tool for wiring the Internet of Things
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The screenshot looks like it might give me a hint except it's too small to read and I can't figure out how to enlarge it if that's possible.
>It [...] makes it easy to wire together flows using the wide range nodes in the palette.
Right, well does that mean? Is this a visual programming language? An IFTT or YQL-like service?
I know that I can read the getting started guide but that tells me how to install the software and how to create my first flow from a quick look at it, and I am not going to spend more time now, except for ranting here :-)
It looks like the program is serialized to JSON, which you can open in their editor to edit graphically. Pretty cool.
In my case, I have several low cost wireless temperature measuring sensors (http://shop.ciseco.co.uk) mixing data with an openweathermap feed sending data to emoncms and other systems. Also connected are wireless buttons (ciseco again) on the washing machine linked to node-red that sends a pushbullet alert when the timer is up.
As has been said - check out the flows website for examples.