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Community News October 2023

Welcome to the FlowFuse newsletter for October 2023, a monthly roundup of what’s been happening with FlowFuse and the wider Node-RED community.
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How to Use Private Custom Nodes in FlowFuse?
Learn how to set up a private Node-RED catalog and npm repository with FlowFuse's latest features, allowing you to manage custom nodes securely and efficiently. -

Custom Vuetify components for Dashboard 2.0
Expand your dashboard with the full collection of Vuetify components -

Updating our branding across GitHub, npm and Dockerhub
Renaming our packages and containers and what it means for our users -

How ChatGPT improves Node-RED Developer Experience
Discover how ChatGPT enhances Node-RED development, from generating code to interpreting flows, and explore its impact on the community. -

Share & Preview Flows on flows.nodered.org
Explore FlowFuse's latest contribution to flows.nodered.org, an interactive "Flow Viewer" for sharing and embedding flows in articles and forum posts. -

Modernize your legacy industrial data. Part 2.
A deeper dive into making the most of legacy industrial data from the likes of Modbus and older, non IIoT protocols and putting it to work in an IIoT world. -

Tulip Operation Calling Event Report
Tulip's recent Operation Calling customer event was held in Boston. Here are some comments based on attending the event. -

Modernize your legacy industrial data
Learn how to bridge legacy industrial protocols like Modbus to the IIoT era using Node-RED and buffer parsing. Explore data types, conversion challenges, and examples -

Community News September 2023
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FlowFuse announces a Node-RED stack for Industry 4.0 applications on ctrlX AUTOMATION
FlowFuse is now offering Node-RED to customers that want to deploy it on the Rexrtoh ctrlX platform. -

Dynamic Markdown, Tables & Notebooks with Dashboard 2.0
Explore the latest features in Dashboard 2.0's v0.4.0 release, including "Notebook" layout, dynamic Markdown & Table widgets, and additional enhancements. -

FlowFuse Cloud Starter package - The easiest way to get started with Node-RED
To allow the discovery of more features that FlowFuse has to offer FlowFuse is introducing a Starter package -

FlowFuse 1.11 makes it easier to get started with FlowFuse and Node-RED
The new FlowFuse 1.11 release includes a new starter tier for FlowFuse Cloud, Personal Access Tokens for API access and improvements to device management. -

FlowFuse is now available on AWS Marketplace
This is an announcement that customers can install FlowFuse on AWS Cloud from the AWS Marketplace. -

Our Open Source offering is a tier, not our competition
Gain insights into FlowFuse's approach to its open-source tier versus its paid offerings. Understand why the open-source model is considered a tier, not competition. -

FlowForge is now FlowFuse
FlowForge is being renamed to FlowFuse. Our mission and commitment to our customers stays the same. -

Dashboard 2.0 - Community Update
Our latest Community Update for Dashboard 2.0, including the latest new widgets, fixes and updates on what's next. -

Why the Automation Pyramid blocks digital transformation - The Role of Unified Namespace
This article analyzes the Automation Pyramid's constraints and explains the Unified Namespace, highlighting its potential to evolve digital transformation in manufacturing.