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I dabbled with home assistant and openhab for a while at home, originally I had planned to monitor some thermometers(not the usual light switches which seemed to be common). I ended up throwing openhab and hass away and is now running nodered together with mqtt. The thermometers are built with arduinos and different temp sensors and posting data to mqtt over wifi. Then nodered catches any writes to the mqtt topics and passes them on to store in tsdb over its rest api. This way, I don't need to mess with the rest api on the thermometers which is very nice.

Since then I added a lot of other things to nodered, I added the coming bus departures, and data from oue heating pump.

Not sure I would use nodered in a business, but if zapier was the option I would perhaps try it. It saves a lot of pipeline for deployment and such which code would need(or at least I would require).

Also, the node red dashboard makes the above even better, I have an android tablet mounted in a frame in the kitchen to show some of the data above.

Well worth a try, I'd say.