[Mister_Snuggles]

I use Node-RED and Home Assistant. They compliment each other very nicely.

At the time I started, Home Assistant's automation capabilities (scripts, automations) were very clunky to deal with, so anything but the simplest things were done in Node-RED. Home Assistant has gotten a lot better in this respect, so I'm doing less in Node-RED these days.

One really neat thing about Node-RED (with the appropriate addons) is that you can create entities in Home Assistant that are populated by Node-RED flows. I use this to fetch the garbage collection schedule and expose the next pickup times for each collection (garbage, organics, recycling) as entities. I've also got a garbage pickup notification that tells me which things will be picked up the next day so I don't have to think about the collection schedule at all.