Node-RED on a Raspberry Pi model A+

[Boris Adryan]

Hi,

I got myself an "old" Raspberry Pi. I configured it to 16 MB graphics memory to make the most of my 256 MB RAM, but still npm seems to hang when installing Node-RED using the 'npm install node-red' strategy (as in: I'm literally staring at a 'rebuild node-gyp' since two hours...). Dumb question: Has anyone actually tried to install a recent version of Node-RED on an A+ model?

Boris

[Dave C-J]

Which thing is it rebuilding ? it is slow on an old one - but not that slow...

[Nicholas O'Leary]

Don't forget the --production flag to avoid installing the development dependencies (unless you're running with -g, which does it implicitly).

Nick

On 6 July 2015 at 17:04, Dave C-J <dce...@gmail.com> wrote:

Which thing is it rebuilding ? it is slow on an old one - but not that slow...

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[Boris Adryan]

Just a short update: It wasn't a problem with the installation, but with my patience. Using Node-RED on a range of machines, I didn't expect ~1h installation time on a RasPi A.

[Boris Adryan]

Plus a screen problem that showed no progress... :-)

[Julian Knight]

Ha, yes. It is easy to forget that the Pi v1 actually contains a relatively weak processor given how much you can do with it.