Node-RED Tutorial - Part 2
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Introduction
The following tutorial shows how to import Nodes from the Node-RED library into expecco
Preconditions
- Installed chrome browser
- Make sure you did the step Specify necessary paths from the first part of the tutorial before you make this part. Node-RED Tutorial - Part 1
Collect Nodes from the Node-RED library
- Click on Operations → Collect List of Nodes in Attachment
- The Node-RED library gets opened in a browser and the names of each node of the library get extracted and saved in the attatchment listOfNodes
- Hint: Collecting the node names take a few minutes and offers the opportunity for a short coffee break
- Node-RED library
Installing Nodes
- Click on Operations → Install Nodes
- A window opens
- Enter here the node name node-red-contrib-speedtest-updated
- Hint: If you want to install all nodes which contains e.g. smarthome in their names just enter *smarthome*
- The entered node will be installed
- Information about the installation can be found in the lower left corner of the window
Importing the Node
- Click on Operations → Importing Nodes
- A small window opens
- The .node-red folder will be opened automatically
- Navigate to the node_modules folder
- Search in the node_modules folder after a folder called node-red-contrib-speedtest-updated
- Select the file speedtest.html, then click OK
- A new folder should have been created
- Open this folder to see the just generated elementary blocks
- Select and execute speedtest
- Click on the tab Run → Pins to see the result
