Easily use ChatGPT in your Custom Automations! | Node-Red Tutorial 

Glad you enjoyed. I have more tutorials on my channel to help you get started 😁

Thanks, I really appreciate it! After seeing your video on LocalAI, I'm looking into adding new node that allows users to use any custom LLM as long as it is compatible with GPT's API.

😂😂 sure thing! I’ll go over a few of the GPT related automations I have.

Glad you like it. I’m dropping more videos that go into detail for each node. Stay tuned! #NodeRedIsTheBest

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I always forget how global RU-vid is and that people from all over the world can find my content. I like your enthusiasm and im glad you're enjoying my content.

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Lol I’m glad you like it ✌🏾

Yes! I’m currently exploring that route but I’m having trouble getting localai to work 😓

No worries! I'll be releasing videos to show some of the automations you can pull of using Node-Red + AI-Intent plugin 😁

@@technithusiast thanks :) I feel in time I will begin to understand because of how you present. Kind of a “due to exposure, I learned” without a deep dive focus if that makes sense.

I glad you’re enjoying the content! I have a few videos hat teach how to use some of the nodes ( like this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-oWP8es4g4D0.html ) and the past 2-3 recent videos give examples of different automations ideas that use these nodes.

Ahh, thank you. The Battery Notification example video (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-T-cIfzZxTmc.html) explained that to me! Very good, thank you!

Awesome, I’m glad it worked out!

Hey I’m glad you like the project!! Currently the nodes are pretty open ended so you could do it manually by saving the response and including it in subsequent calls. I have some updates I’m working on to easily facilitate conversations and using a local LLM instead of needing OpenAI

It's active. Im not sure why iOS devices are having problems. Try this link: www.youtube.com/@technithusiast/join

I like your thought process! Currently i don't think there is a way to do this well. The caveat at the moment is that if an AI is suppose to control our smart home it needs to know the state of all our devices in every single conversation. For example if I sent the Chatbot the state of all my devices once and then i turn on the light. If i asked the bot which light is on, it will get the answer wrong because the state changed and we did not update the bot. (This is why Assistant API from OpenAI doesn't work for this use case either). The best strategy so far is splitting your automations in such a way where it doesn't need to know a lot about everything. Or even more complex, force the bot to ask you about the state of specific devices before it tries to execute commands. We're currently talking about this in our channel membership is you would like to participate 😁 ru-vid.com/show-UCN4_NYvCU-tvIG3F1QSVdSwjoin

Thank you and I’m glad you’re enjoying the content! I’ve seen some code from other clever folks that’s been able to get get and return text to home assistant assist. I’ve been only able to get text from it (I’m still trying to figure out how to send text back asynchronously) You can use the “sentence” node in node red and use {wildcard} in the sentences box. This will trigger this node with the text from assist. However this is a one way street and I haven’t figured out how to respond after I processed the text

Ooh great. At least a start. Thanks for replying.

@@technithusiast Ive tested your suggestion. Sadly i dont get any output when I create a sentence node and Insert {wildcard} into the sentence box. Ive connected the sentence node to a debug node wich debugging the whole msg. My goal would be to aks assit for example "how late it is?" and this sentence should be send to node red to use it for controll your created openai nodes. [ { "id": "4b30d2bbfa1115cb", "type": "ha-sentence", "z": "92271de62069540b", "name": "", "server": "c1ba182f9955500a", "version": 1, "outputs": 1, "exposeAsEntityConfig": "", "sentences": [ "{wildcard}" ], "response": "", "outputProperties": [ { "property": "topic", "propertyType": "msg", "value": "", "valueType": "triggerId" }, { "property": "payload", "propertyType": "msg", "value": "", "valueType": "triggerId" } ], "x": 260, "y": 6010, "wires": [ [ "8902f606ae8c66cd" ] ] }, { "id": "8902f606ae8c66cd", "type": "debug", "z": "92271de62069540b", "name": "debug 137", "active": true, "tosidebar": true, "console": false, "tostatus": false, "complete": "true", "targetType": "full", "statusVal": "", "statusType": "auto", "x": 475, "y": 6010, "wires": [] }, { "id": "c1ba182f9955500a", "type": "server", "name": "Home Assistant", "version": 5, "addon": true, "rejectUnauthorizedCerts": true, "ha_boolean": "y|yes|true|on|home|open", "connectionDelay": true, "cacheJson": true, "heartbeat": false, "heartbeatInterval": "30", "areaSelector": "friendlyName", "deviceSelector": "friendlyName", "entitySelector": "friendlyName", "statusSeparator": ": ", "statusYear": "hidden", "statusMonth": "short", "statusDay": "numeric", "statusHourCycle": "h23", "statusTimeFormat": "h:m", "enableGlobalContextStore": false } ]

Hey this is probably something I would be better suited to help as a channel member as you would have access to the discord server so we can converse faster and share code easier. However based on what you’re mentioning Assist doesn’t talk directly to node-red. If you use the conversation api in node-red it will definitely pick it up but the Assist dialog in HA requires a custom plug-in that would act as a conversation agent and that agent would send the messages to your node-red instance.

Love the enthusiasm! Another viewer ran into a similar issue and was able to solve it by attaching a debug node and reading the data. If you're still unable to get it working let me know and i can sync up with you offline for additional help.

@@technithusiast I have been experimenting with setting up voice assistant at home and I have gotten it to work with the home assistant “assist” but it sucks so bad. So that’s why I’m happy to see movement on this! I would love to help you on this. I’m a programmer with 9 years of experience working as a consultant in various fields. And I’m a huge home assistant nerd. I use all node red for my automations. At the moment I have loads of time since I’m between assignments.

@@technithusiast I looked at the debug and I’m not sure what I should be looking for. But I did see one strange thing. It says there is a registered intent that is called “lightOn” but there isn’t. There was one before but I renamed it. Edit: looked at this some more. And I’m almost positive there is a bug when deleting “register intent” nodes that causes them to not be removed from the tools visible to OpenAI

It is definitely possible as I’ve had issues around that use case. To help debug, can you send me two things: First a screen recording of how you setup the automation and the error results of what happened. Second, export your entire flow as a json. Send both the json and screen recording to technithusiast+help@gmail.com

@@technithusiast I sent you an email

Could be a regression. Try setting the tool choice option to “None” if you’re not using the OpenAI tool node

Not at the moment. For version 2, I’m looking into creating a “3rd-party” node that would enable the use of compatible open source LLMs

I’m a bad litmus test since I have to test this extensively. And it would also depend on the automations. Back when I first started $5 was enough. But if I were to guess, $10 should be enough for most users but this is just a guess.

@@technithusiast Hello, perfect thank you :) I have enabled the CAP just in case!

@@aydanabrahams9665 glad I could help!

If you are using node-red in Home Assistant, you may need to look for a folder called addon_configs and look for a generated folder ending in _nodered

@@technithusiast unfortunately there are no folders with such names in my HA

@@florianosabatini4016 what are u using to search? Try using the Samba addon. I’ll try and update the readme with a screen grab of what I see if that doesn’t work try using the config in chat node

@@technithusiast love your content. I'm having the same issue. I have nodered under my custom components but I don't see that folder. got samba installed and while I see my home assistant device on my network, I don't see how to access the file structure. any ideas on where to find the settings.js file?

figured out samba

If you are using node-red in Home Assistant, you may need to look for a folder called addon_configs and look for a generated folder ending in _nodered

@@technithusiast Thanks, I found it by connecting to my HA via Samba. Now it works like charm an opens a whole lot of possibilities.

and i figured it out with debug... the issue is with "functionName" , when it should be "domain: msg.payload[0].nodeName" instead

Sorry for any confusion the video may have caused. There are so many moving pieces that a few details may have slipped through the cracks on my side. Seeing that many may be inclined to try node-red due to this plugin. I will see if i can create a Node-Red crash course.

​@@technithusiast bugs and issues are part of the experience. thank you for your work. i am trying to figure out how i can make it more efficient. how can i give OpenAI more info like "can you turn off the light that is turned on the longest in my office?"

If you know you want GPT to answer specific kinds of questions you should update the data you pass to the System node. For example you can do some preprocessing to the entities and include a “duration” property. Or since entities already have a “last_updated” property, you can give GPT the instructions on how to calculate duration if asked.

Sounds great! What is it called?

well i guess it needed time because now i can get a response... let me move on with the video :)

Glad it's working!