Community News January 2022

Welcome to the first FlowFuse newsletter, we’re going to publish this as a regular roundup of what`s happening with both FlowFuse and the wider Node-RED community, if you want to receive it via email, sign up for updates at the bottom of the page.

If you’ve got something that you’d like us to share please email contact@flowfuse.com.

FlowFuse 0.1 Released
First up we are really pleased to ship the first version of our platform, this is a very early release but hopefully will give you an idea of the direction we’re going in.

Node-RED 2.2
The next version of Node-RED has been released with new editor features, predefined environment variables and improvements to some of the core nodes. Checkout the blog post and change log for more details.

Make your IoT data beautiful
Ben Mawby wrote a guide on connecting Golioth's WebSocket endpoints to Grafana using Node-RED and InfluxDB

Alexa Voice Service on Node-RED
Sam Machin rebuilt an app on Node-RED allowing you to talk to Alexa through the browser. And he has published a new node to use the Alexa Voice Service within your own flows.

New Team Members
We welcomed 2 new members of the FlowFuse team this month ZJ joins as our CEO and Steve has come onboard to work on the Node-RED project

We are Hiring
We're looking for the next member of our team, If you're a Node.JS developer and want to work with us take a look at the link.