n8n.io - Zappier, IFTTT, Integromat alternative

[A Former User]

Would definitely be interested in this. Specifically, my use-case is building my own smart light switches. Id have the buttons hooked up to microcontrollers that send requests to something like IFTTT or n8n off of a webhook trigger to turn lights on/off.

[mehdi]

@atrilahiji For this I suggest installing home-assistant locally on something like a raspberry pi, locally. I actually just installed such a system at my place

[girish]

I looked into this a bit. Did I get it right that this app only supports basic auth? That's kinda worrying. I am surprised though given that it seems to have a lot of github stars atleast.

[A Former User]

Thats what im seeing. Being able to use LDAP for this would be a godsend but I didnt find info on using LDAP with it. RIP the IFTTT alternative dream?

[marcusquinn]

Just chatting with @murgero to look at this. Please pledge some sponsorship if you want, and to respectfully keep devs fed for finishing what we can't: https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/3380/sponsoring-n8n

[jimcavoli]

It may end up that Huginn is the better option. Not sure, but that's a Ruby/Rails app too (my primary speciality) so perhaps I can look at getting that packaged so a bit of comparison can begin. Honestly not sure where that rings in on my priority list for the time being though. Reasonably low through the early parts of next year, likely.

[marcusquinn]

@jimcavoli happy to sponsor if you do. We did trial it and ended up sticking with NodeRED.

TBH, with ETL tools, it's inevitable to use multiple as the time-saving from having read-made connectors offsets the cost of having different automations in different tools, hence we still run 4 and would likely hedge bets, continuing to use each for their advantages than limiting ourselves to just one.

[marcusquinn]

@jimcavoli Nice work and insight. Does this development change anything for your view on the limitations of basic auth? https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/3682/proxyauth-addon

As far as "Some stuff only works in Chrome". I guess that covers all Chromiums, as I tend to use Vivaldi in those cases.

As with all these Apps, I can get some developer assistance if we need to also contribute direct to the apps themselves, so it's always worth having them available in the App Store as "Unstable" so we can review these things and contribute upstream with sponsorship or dev-time as well if necessary.

[jimcavoli]

@marcusquinn Yeah, maybe the new auth wall is enough. Haven't tried adding it to this packaging yet, but that could be a reasonable solution, since this is otherwise fairly ready to go and has a lot of asks.

[marcusquinn]

@jimcavoli think you could pick this up for a little sponsoring contribution? I think @murgero has other understandable priorities at the mo, so I prefer not to chase.

https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/3380/sponsoring-n8n

We have can jump in and start using and looking at core contributions as well once it's running and we can battle test. We have more devs on our team that can get into packaging but right now they are all flat-out on a bunch of systems migrations.

[mehdi]

I think this one should just wait for Cloudron@6 and use the integrated proxyAuth. It does not seem reasonable to come up with a custom solution just to roll-back in a few weeks

[marcusquinn]

@mehdi fair enough. I'm working on getting more Dev attention to help on Cloudron stuff too, takes a little time but as soon as anyone gets involved they do see the light

[jimcavoli]

I'm reworking this now that 6 is out and proxyAuth is an option. Currently got the latest version building and running on the latest node. Waiting for some details on how to do proxyAuth configuration to not break webhooks (rather important for this one!) and then I'll need to get to fixing up the websockets, but overall is looking okay. Switching from file-based to env-based configuration only because it seems better supported by the docs as well.

[marcusquinn]

@jimcavoli

[thetomester13]

@jimcavoli would love to see this in action! It seems that your repo hasn't been updated in a while (I'm only seeing 1 commit there) and the 'active connection to the server' isn't working so I'm not able to run any workflows. Keeping an eye on this for sure. Thanks!

[A Former User]

Incredibly excited for this! Thanks for your hard work!!!

[marcusquinn]

@jimcavoli @girish @nebulon I just had my Open AI beta application accepted!!

https://openai.com/

Get me n8n.io on Cloudron and I'll get amazing GPT-3 things built for you!

[jdaviescoates]

@marcusquinn said in n8n.io - Zappier, IFTTT, Integromat alternative:

I'll get amazing GPT-3 things built for you!

Sounds intriguing, what are you thinking?

[marcusquinn]

@jdaviescoates I think Chatbots are the obvious one but there's a few applications:

• Message/Email context/sentiment analysis for tagging and directing to appropriate staff or place.
• Chat via email.
• CRM enrichment taking all known text from a person and writing a summary.
• Monitoring Social Media for inflammatory messages.

For fun:

Bold text is what you input, the rest is what is written for you:

Or I could ask GPT-3 to answer on my behalf

[marcusquinn]

A bit more fun with GPT-3: