Node-Red on Android Blew my Mind

I stumbled across a really cool app that basically lets you turn any android phone into a Node-Red powered IOT device. Whether you want to access the sensors or do things like text-to-speeh/speech-to-text, I was pretty impressed. My mind is churning with ideas of what we could do with this in the real world. More videos to come.
Update: Just for testing, I ran this on several phones and it ran perfectly all the way back to and including a Moto G (3rd Gen) from 2015 on Android 6.0.
I have no relation to this App or this developer, I just thought I would share it.
The App: play.google.co...

[@hiroyukiokada8001]

Thanks for this video. I'm a developer. The video you can imagine how the app works are amazing.

[@amslereye4302]

Is it possible to send data real time to cloud database like firebase, Azure etc?

[@fishPointer]

Thanks to both of you :) I love this

[@Jadinandrews]

I've been developing in Node Red for nearly a year now, and it continually impresses me, I've only used it on AWS and a Raspberry Pi, never really seemed necessary to mess around with the Android version until I saw this and realized how powerful it would be paired with all the phone's sensors, and direct access to some of the android smart features! Node Red on Android paired with an Arduino for interfacing with machines would be absolutely awesome!

[@AnotherMaker]

It really is great. I do have another NR android video that has access to different sensors than the one in this video. I kind of tinker with both of them to see which one has the features I want.

[@Jadinandrews]

@@AnotherMaker have you used nodered for any production projects or mainly just as a hobby?

[@23Fibonacci]

I know, Node-RED's the shit. I came across it, deployed it to one of my Raspberry Pis - and within a day had a mobile app with buttons to turn on/off services, streams, mail myself things - so simple and powerful. The Android app I will certainly be checking out.

[@phreaqman]

that's pretty awesome, that really opens up some home automation possibilities

[@AnotherMaker]

Yeah. I agree. I am definitely thinking through some options

Very convincing, I'm a node-red big fan and I've just bought the app (not expensive) because it really looks really cool...

[@AnotherMaker]

I hope you enjoy it. I'm going to do a video tomorrow (I think) to see about installing it manually (for free), but I think it's going to be hard to beat this app.

[@nodered8667]

@@AnotherMaker Do you know the name of these packages for android control?

[@AnotherMaker]

@@nodered8667 I don't off the top of my head. My guess is that they're custom. I had the name before and I looked it up, they're not available through npm.

[@trainwreck1827]

With this, I pretty much don't need any IOT device. Right now, we just have an alexa that we use to set timers in the kitchen... my whole house is ran on custom nodemcu devices powered via node-red, i can't wait to dig into this.

[@GeekMustHave]

Excitement is contagious, this makes the Android phone an IOT sensor, which way are you moving, how fast, provide feedback as to direction. I experimented with Node-Red a little bit recently, now I'm going to dedicate some time to this. Thank you for a great video and Keep Broadcasting!!

[@AnotherMaker]

Thanks for watching. I have a lot of node-red stuff coming up. I'm doing some different Node-Red games and I just did a Node-Red smart doorbell that will do a lot of fun stuff. I may work Android in there somehow too.

[@ASAPvent]

Wow. This is dangerous beyond simple comparison. What can be done is not something everyone should remotely have access to do. This is a open-source style bomb makers dream

[@AnotherMaker]

Sometimes terrorists don't need a handout...they just need a hand up.

[@Tony770jr]

Cool, I'm a veteran node red developer, and this is awesome!

[@AnotherMaker]

Awesome! I love NR. I need to make more content on it. I use it nearly every day and don't make many videos on it.

[@pauldengmelb]

this is so great, immediately paid. thanks for sharing this.

[@smartassist9700]

I have South Korean, Filipino, Chinese, Japanese Thai, Vietnamese, Singapore, I keep in touch with using Google translate for msgs or emails. They translate to English in reply... I worked Asia Pacific and USA 38yrs b4 disability.

[@Englishneo2k]

UK would have been en-GB. This looks really cool though and you sound so excited!!!

[@AnotherMaker]

I was--- and yep! I knew better than that. My mouth moves faster than my brain sometimes.

[@Englishneo2k]

@@AnotherMaker Ive also now purchased this and will have a play sometime in the next week or 2 once I've got through other projects with my home automation and energy monitoring. Thanks for the video!!

[@narayanankutty4]

i was looking for something like this for ages thanks a lot

[@AnotherMaker]

Awesome. Enjoy. I do have one more video on how to do it for free using something called termux. There are pros and cons to each way of doing it, but this one is super easy.

[@ShazamNC]

Awesome video! Just subscribed to your channel. Greetings from Brazil :)

[@AnotherMaker]

Thanks! Happy to have you! I've been to South America, but never Brazil, it is on my list.

[@nodered8667]

By the way if you go to the node red site it has a very quick guide on setting up node-red as is, using an app called termux to launch it. Can't say it's the easiest way to work with it but it does the trick!

[@michaelberkemer1796]

Great Video, thanks! I tried Out the compass and the battery level, they worked petfectly but I can't get the notifiers, Like the vibrator to work. Please make a video with an example using the vibrator to Signal a low battery level, that would be highly appreciated or any other ideas using Red mobile, thanks again and I look forward to more of your Videos, thanks.

[@sven1858]

Thanks for this video. New subscriber. Could possibly be an alternative to Tasker

[@majcarter3256]

It's expensive, for what it is. It has beeen possible to do this for free for years, by using Termux. Have been creating easy rapid clusters of iot using phones for prototyping instrumentation rigs for ages. Agree, it is quite cool though ;)

[@AnotherMaker]

It's the "easy" way to do it. I also have a video on doing it with termux :)

[@smartassist9700]

If it could utilize “google translation” effectively.... you have the text to text or even voice to text in translation. Trick is proper pronunciation of various text languages.

[@techserviceconseil]

I stop the video because i gonna be crazy without stopping . I build something with node red homme assitant and mycroft. Just have to replace the mycroft in and mycroft out node with the TTS and the STT to use phone for media cast awesome. The sensor control kill me once and the language kill me twice. I continue to watch but you already same me a lot of time man. Thank you a lot. By the way the soon go grab the phone old phone maker :)

[@AnotherMaker]

I'm happy to help! Enjoy building!

[@nodered8667]

By the way if you go to the node red site it has a very quick guide on setting up node-red as is, using an app called termux to launch it. Can't say it's the easiest way to work with it but it does the trick! (It also doesn't cost £4.) I'd advise this if you are developing workflows on another device then importing them to android. (THis is just my node red play account - I have no affiliation with node red)

[@AnotherMaker]

Both are valid ways to do it. The "official" way you get more flexibility in the long run, but as you said, it's clunky and personally I didn't like it as much. I have a video on that too. In my experience, if you can do what the included nodes in this one does, I liked it better than the termux way. If you need other features, termux is better. Security updates for this come through the play store.

[@LargeVehicle]

I have used Node Red on my Raspberry Pi for years, but this version for android, for me anyway just isn't anywhere near tasker or automagic, for instance there are no triggers, except an inject node, so if you want an inject node going off on a phone every second say, using battery power, to check battery level fine, but that's not for me, plus i have had this app for 6 month+ and i haven't had 1 update, compared to my Pi version, and you can't install 3rd party nodes, like the Pi version either.

[@AnotherMaker]

Yeah. I was hoping there would be more development on it

[@SimpleElectronics]

Going through your older videos....you really should have more views!

[@AnotherMaker]

Haha thanks. I agree. I am underrated.

[@meggrobi]

NodeRed works well on a modile. I use MQTT brokers for Iot devices to save using a Rpi. I used the free installation of NR via Termux

[@AnotherMaker]

I like that install. It's not quite as easy as the app, but it's still sweet.

[@rizanasalim]

Really cool

[@IoTLearner]

Ok this is very cool!

[@smartassist9700]

That alone being efficient at a lot of languages could charge more for that feature. Key is many different Asian languages/African then go high level German/French/English/ Spanish. Keep it simple where they can afford to.

[@bigmistqke]

Very cool

[@genxindia1154]

If I ever buy a raspberry pi I am probably going to use it.

[@AnotherMaker]

It runs on any computer also. I love node red!

[@genxindia1154]

@@AnotherMaker Thanks for this video. You just earned a subscriber

[@msmadaram]

have you ever work on android broker such as moquette or something like that ? when we have one esp8266 and we want to connet to it with 20 mobile phone what happen? each esp8266 or esp 12e can just have 8 TCP/ UDP connection what's your idea if we have 20 mobile phones and simultaneous they want to connect to one esp publisher? if we run an android broker on one of mobile phones and other connect to it we can connect to esp by one TCP/UDP from broker to esp, is it true? have you ever work on android broker such as moquette or something like that ? and we don't have any cloud on the net!!!!

[@J.erem.y]

People don't spend the money on the app because there's an official way to install node red on android in the documentation. The app is cool, but 5 bucks is 5 bucks.

[@AnotherMaker]

Yeah. I did a (more recent) video on installing it with Termux. I think it's a totally different experience. If you can get by with what the app does, it's great. Really easy with some extra built in features. If you need something custom, termux is the way to go. Just my 2 cents. Both ways are good for different things.

[@dablet]

how to get this working with existing Home Assistant installation? for instance, could you please make an example for door knocking? mount phone onto a door. when someone knocks, i get a telegram alert that someone is knocking at the door because vibration was detected.

[@AnotherMaker]

Sure. I'll check it out. I need to set HA back up. I tend to do everything straight from NR and NR Dashboard, but I want to play with it again. It's pretty funny, there is a channel called Bruh Automation and the guy posted a video called getting started in 2019 and I installed HA following his steps and then he just never made another video. He left the 117k people who viewed that video hanging. :)

[@mikeblackwood5444]

use the mqtt node to send messages to ha or regular node red instance

[@Alamnadis-2024]

Hi. Can you also make a demo on the new camera nodes?

[@AnotherMaker]

I can definitely try. I have 2 more node-red videos coming out this week. The first one was really fun. I'll take a look at those nodes and see what I can do.

[@leandroheras8590]

is it possible to get those android nodes (the ones who access de sensors) if a got installed Node-red using termux?

[@AnotherMaker]

I've had mixed results. Some of them yes, others no. The app developer did a really good job of getting that stuff working.

[@leandroheras8590]

@@AnotherMaker Thanks for the answer, Im new in this node-red world and your video just gave me some sort of energy boost. Im looking for those nodes to play with that possibilities.

[@hugogarcia4031]

Thank you.

[@AnotherMaker]

You're welcome!

[@chrisrosenkreuz23]

I saw some dude hanging his phone on a bent string attatched to his doorknob over a nail so that when he opened the string suddenly dropped the phone a bit and it turned on his smart lights via accelerometer haha

[@AnotherMaker]

haha. That's fantastic. There really is no end to what you can do with that stuff.

[@ndyyaa2281]

thank you for sharing this. new subscriber here.

[@AnotherMaker]

Thanks for watching!

[@t1czer]

Does it work with smart bulbs? On raspberry pi it has a plugin for yeelight, does it work here too?

[@AnotherMaker]

It will communicate with different protocols like mqtt. If you want to be able to install your own nodes, I have another video about installing node red on Android for free the allows you to do that.

[@automguru]

Have you tried using msg.lang? I'm trying to change the voice options.

[@AnotherMaker]

I haven't tried that. I need to get back to NR on Android and play with it a little more.

[@nodered8667]

I've found the "official" method quite clunky to use even on my large s10+ screen. Anyone got any experience with both that can vouch for the useability of this app? Am I still going to be able to add security packages?

[@squalazzo]

does it allow to add custom nodes? Like Peter Scargill's BigTimer?

[@AnotherMaker]

No. You can't add new nodes to this (yet), but you can pump data from another NR install over to this. In my office I have a pi running and I was using that to send stuff over to NR on the phone/fire stick when things were triggered.

[@squalazzo]

​@@AnotherMaker what's the difference in opening a browser and pointing to the ip of your other nodered?

[@mikeblackwood5444]

@@squalazzo from what i can tell just phone control , which albeit cool can be done easily with the join node in regular node red . Has a big cool factor but not really seeing the usefulness yet unless you want to make a light sensor or vibration sensor out of an old phone.

[@diegoteceletro]

amazing!!!

[@AnotherMaker]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@smartassist9700]

If u could speech US /EN. To Philippine/Tagalog. Now you have a beast! Or better. Speech to speech any other language combinations!

[@ItNetworks]

Que nodo instalaste para el mobile?

[@ssaladino1998]

Will this work to feed info into Home assistant? I have node red on a rasp pi.

[@AnotherMaker]

I don't remember if there is a home assistant node but if not there are other built-in ones like the HTTP node that will do it.

[@EnergizerTX]

so being this was built on open source, does this mean this android source should be available?

[@AnotherMaker]

That's a question for the NR people :)

[@window.location]

Thats awsm bro so cool But its not free but it worth it

[@AnotherMaker]

Yeah. It is not free but if you buy it once you can install it on all of your devices that are linked to your Google account

[@metalwhere]

Node-Red has a good write up on their site, on how to install the open source version, on Android using Termux (all for free). nodered.org/docs/getting-started/android

[@radiogena]

Can it be used and worth to try on Android tablet???

[@-indeed8285]

I think so

[@sallen135]

Does the phone need to be unlocked for the sensor data to go through?

[@AnotherMaker]

No. Mine was working with the screen off

[@nodered8667]

I think once you've allowed permission to the application you're good to go

[@brighterfuture3993]

Imagine if your kids have android tablets :)

[@AnotherMaker]

They could do some things.

[@smartassist9700]

Ask node red about it....

[@anasalamin9164]

Would have worked if you typed : en-GB

[@AnotherMaker]

hahahaha. I realized that after the fact. I should know better. I have an open source project that I translated so I use language files all the time.

[@smartassist9700]

I can find used phone free easily.

[@dicktonyboy]

Shared your delight with this App - thanks for sharing.

[@AnotherMaker]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@dicktonyboy]

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