Node-RED: nodes available?

[Ricardo Santos]

Hello everyone,

Which nodes are available?
Can we install external nodes from the Node-RED library? (E.g.: Modbus or ftp)

Thanks in advance,
Ricardo Santos

[Lawrence Griffiths]

Ricardo, any node make sure your running AEP 1.2.2 as it has NPM included 1.1.2 doesn’t.

In terms of Modbus we have this version running on-site for 1 month with 40 LoRaWAN sensors https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-red-contrib-modbus

Be careful the AEP is an ARM7 and installing and running a lot of custom nodes can slow the AEP down.

Lawrence

[Sean O Connell]

Hi,

I would like to install some custom nodes on conduit AEP node-red using npm. Can somebody expalin briefly how I do this ?

Thanks, Sean.

[Lawrence Griffiths]

Sean are these nodes you have written yourself ? if so have you packaged them as per http://nodered.org/docs/creating-nodes/packaging if so or they are nodes then it’s simple case of NPN install package name as you would do if you were running Node-RED on a PC or Raspberry PI.

You can also use the old pre NPM method and copy your nodes to /opt/node-red/nodes and then re-start AEP.

Also be aware custom nodes are not preserved on AEP firmware update.

Lawrence

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