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Has anyone used n8n and Node Red and could compare them? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by chazwhiz@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I use HomeAssistant automations for all my home stuff, it has an official easy to add Node Red integration available. I played with it a little in the past but didn’t really see any value for me at the time. Now I’m looking to set up a new automation tool that’s not necessarily hardware/home type stuff, moreso the kind of thing you might use IFTTT for, but I want to self host. so for example scraping a webpage, extracting the content of an article, sending to an AI API for summary, then outputting as RSS. I was thinking about setting up n8n, but I wanted to see if maybe the HA Node Red would be just as good (I think it’s a fork right?). That way I don’t need to set up a new VM or anything plus it’ll be already integrated into my backups and proxy etc as part of HA.

So has anyone used both and could compare?

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[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

n8n has really strange licensing AFAIK which is why I avoided it.

Maybe have a look at: https://github.com/huginn/huginn

[–] qazwsxedcrfv000@lemmy.unknownsys.com 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh sorry I misread your message. Indeed it is an odd one. https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/blob/master/LICENSE.md

~~Isn't it just plain old MIT or have I missed anything?~~

~~https://github.com/huginn/huginn/blob/master/LICENSE~~

[–] chazwhiz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was initially thinking Huginn, but it doesn’t seem to have as much activity around it. You like it, plenty of flexibility?

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I haven't actually used it (I considered setting it up but I don't really need it personally).

But it seems sufficiently flexible that it should be possible to easy make your own agents without depending on other people's contributions? The code-base itself looks actively maintained.