Node Red and MODBUS - best practice to manage HA entities

Third party integrations Node-RED
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Hello,
I am migrating MODBUS management of my air ventilation system from home assistant to node-red.
I have about 50 register that I use that represents sensors (only reading) or parameters that I can change.
What is the best practice to manage from node-red and home assistant in both ways?
When I read parameters from node red should I create MQTT entities and send outputs using MQTT? or is better to define a lot of helpers for every parameter and manage everything with node-red flow that update modbus when the helper change value?

Thank you
Chris

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@chrispazz It’s been very quiet here, did you find out the best way of doing it somewhere? I have all my modbus ventilation automations in Home Assistant native still, and would like to move it to Node Red but not certain of the best way yet.

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@Mithrox I do not know if it is the best way (nobody answered) but I ported everything in Node red… :slight_smile: