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[SOLVED] activate LED1/2 with Node-RED + fieldbus nodes container
#1
I'm using netPI RTE with the hilschernetpi/netpi-nodered-fieldbus container installed. Now I want to activate the LED 1 an 2 (GPIO12, GPIO 13).
I try a flow with output-node Raspberry rpi gpio. But it didn`t work, below the node the message N/A is shown. Sending an e-mail using the same trigger works.


Is it even possible to access the LED with Node-Red?


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#2
Well Christian, you should follow the following post:

https://forum.hilscher.com/thread-159.html

This explains why the standard Raspberry GPIO Node-RED node can't be used. The LEDs are no general purpose IO devices but LED devices.

Since the GPIO node is based on the rpi-gpio node.js module https://github.com/JamesBarwell/rpi-gpio...pi-gpio.js you see in there the PATH information set to /sys/class/gpio which cannot be used for the LEDs.

My recommendation is to write your own Node-RED node ... which is probably no more than 10 lines of code.
You never fail until you stop trying.“, Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

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#3
One thing in addition. You need to enable privileged mode for your container in any case. Else the /sys/class/ ... instances are not available in a container.
You never fail until you stop trying.“, Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

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#4
Thank you for your response. Unfortunately, I can not do anything with it. I understand the explanation, but creating my own node exceeds my knowledge. If you would like to give me further information, I would be grateful.

I still have a thousand more questions, but I will open new threads soon.

PS: google-Translate is wonderful
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#5
Christian I have decided to make a Node-RED LED node public within a Docker image in the next days.

I feel that an LED Node-RED example node will help the netPI community in general supporting netPI Node-RED applications better.

I will keep you informed when I have released the example.
You never fail until you stop trying.“, Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

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#6
Hello Christian,

we have made the container with Node-RED and user LED node now public to everyone on DockerHub here https://cloud.docker.com/u/hilschernetpi...-user-leds

This is how it looks like

   

Have fun with it.
You never fail until you stop trying.“, Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

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#7
We put all Node-RED nodes we ever made for netPI and distributed in multple containers into one single container now. https://cloud.docker.com/u/hilschernetpi...pi-nodered. This container and its Node-RED does include the user LED node too.
You never fail until you stop trying.“, Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

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