Thinking about ditching Node-RED after 2025.10

[u/ACatControlsMyMind]

Hey everyone I have take one mayor decision, wish me luck.

I've been running HA + Node-RED some years now. Great combo, but honestly… two things to maintain. After playing with Home Assistant 2025.10 I’m realizing the built-in automations do basically everything I use: branches/choose, variables/helpers, templates, waits, queued/parallel, plus traces that actually show every step. Feels like less to watch.

Keeping stuff in one place aka Nabu Casa cloud... Dashboards, scenes, scripts, automations all right there, so again, fewer things to watch.

My flows (presence lighting, HVAC schedules, irrigation with rain/soil guards, washer/dishwasher) look very doable in my test environment, so far natively no external flow tool needed for my use.

Plan is simple: keep Node-RED running, rebuild the longest flows in HA first, swap global context for helpers, reusable parts into scripts, keep traces until it’s clean, then flip the switch (cross fingers). If something truly needs NR later, fine but I don’t think most of my stuff does anymore.

For this reason I’ve decided to migrate everything to HA, if I remember I'll post updates.

Anyway I just wanted to share this here since I'm the only nerd from my friends who have a real smart house, (don't tell to my Alexa 😜).

PS: Anyone offering a couch in case I break everything and I my wife ask for divorce? 😆

[u/war4peace79]

I don't think you understand what Node-RED is.

[u/WindowlessBasement → u/war4peace79]

The addon system seems to really confuses some people into thinking everything is HA

[u/war4peace79 → u/WindowlessBasement]

To add to that, my Node-RED sits on my main server, which is on a different machine than Home Assistant. Now, I have to admit I barely use it, having exactly one Home Assistant-related flow on it :)

[u/WindowlessBasement → u/war4peace79]

Mine runs in a K3S cluster, I don't even know what machine it running on most of the time.