Sharing after the flows were created left every flow between the owner and
the end of the list pointing at a library entry that did not exist yet. A node
that fails to load provides nothing, so one missing entry reported as inputs
nothing carries, in eighteen places.
The library is written *from* a node, so this is one throwaway flow that
carries both sources in and is deleted again — the entries outlive it. Order
stops mattering, which also covers the case that would have broken the
previous fix: two instances of one shared node inside a single flow.
Verified against the installation: nineteen flows, zero validation issues.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
A node type accepts a setting it does not know and ignores it, which is right
for a node someone is editing and wrong here: seeded against the engine this
installation is running today, every rollershutter would take the trigger's
default minute instead of the twenty-six seconds it actually takes, and every
Victron reading would arrive as an object where a number was declared. It
would look like it had worked.
So the seed asks what the node types know before it writes anything, and says
which rebuild is missing.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The Node-RED installation this replaces is 865 nodes across three tabs, and
roughly a fifth of it is unreachable — the pellet stove's controller, the
scene engine and the awning's logic were all disconnected from the heartbeat
they ran on. What is here is the intent rather than the wiring: nineteen named
flows, 109 nodes, and no heartbeat at all. A sensor value is the event.
The device layer moves with it. `actor/*` and `light/*` were never a device
interface — Node-RED subscribed to its own topics, stamped a DMX channel on
each and encoded one Art-Net universe — so those topics retire with it and the
encoders are five nodes in the `dmx` flow.
Two shared library nodes carry what every actuator needs.
`arbiter` answers the thing this design was missing: a value someone sets on a
screen is not undone by the next evaluation. A manual value wins for a hold,
the house takes over when it expires, and a schedule can force past both — so
"off at two in the morning" still means off. The control binds to the message
the arbiter writes back, so one tile shows what reached the fixture and
setting it is the override.
`motor` is why a stop is now commanded once. A rollershutter has no position
sensor, so time is the only feedback: it says how long to run and a trigger
sends the single STOP that ends it. The reference sent STOP forever.
Everything is seeded stopped, the Art-Net node does not transmit and the heat
pump does not accept commands until house.json says so.
`--dry` checks the whole set without an installation: names nothing provides,
loops, type disagreements, widgets bound to nothing, and every Python node run
once on values of the shape it declared — including whether what it returns
goes anywhere. That last one has already caught a typo that would have
published into silence.
house.json holds this installation's addresses, MAC addresses and DMX map and
is git-ignored, as the Node-RED inventory is.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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