newly installed nodes not showing as an option

[Helena N]

Hi there, 

I just updated my Node-Red to v0.10.4 and I realized all my previously installed nodes are gone. So naturally I went in to reinstall them. 

The installation process was successful however the nodes that I downloaded are not "showing up" on the drop and drop menu. 

I have restarted, refresh, and reinstalled all the nodes including reinstalling Node Red but everything is still default looking.

I need node Twilio and node Mongodb. Am I missing a plug or something else? Please help.

Thanks,

H

[Mark Setrem]

You don't say how you upgraded, or what platform you are running on.

Have you tried starting Node-RED with the -v flag? i.e. node-red -v

What does that say?

[Dave C-J]

What does the console report as your user Directory at startup ?

That is the directory you need to be in when you npm install extra nodes.

The log you just appended would indicate that Node-RED is already running - address is already in use...

[Dave C-J]

Hi, the default user directory should (if it was a clean install) be  /home/{your user}/.node-red   (note the . ).

If so then you would

    cd ~/.node-red

    npm install node-red-node-twilio

then stop and restart Node-RED  if not already stopped :-)

[Helena N]

I have tried that before actually and I got all sorts of ERR!
See attached photo. 

[Phil Grainger]

Have you tried adding 'sudo' to your npm install commands:

sudo npm install node-red-node-twilio

[Helena N]

I have and that's I was able to install it but my question is - even though the files are clearly shown as downloaded 

none of the nodes that I installed are showing up on the actually task bar. 

I am supposed to be able to use Twilio after I install the node - it's not there. Like I said earlier, rebooting/restarting didn't help.

[Nicholas O'Leary]

Hi Helena,

the first thing to check is, as Dave asked, what User Directory node-red is using. When you run node-red, it reports in the log output the user directory it is using, for example, for me it says:

    10 Mar 23:36:07 - [info] User Directory : /home/nol/.node-red

  can you check that is what you expect? This should be the directory you run the npm install node-red-node-twilio command in.

Nick

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[Helena N]

Hey Nick, 

This is the user directory it's running from. Does that look right? 

 

11 Mar 15:27:25 - [info] User Directory : /Users/Helena/.node-red

[Nicholas O'Leary]

That does look likely - it defaults to $HOME/.node-red, which on OS x will be something that looks like that.

Next question, is that directory in which you ran "npm install node-red-node-twilio"?

Can you confirm that /Users/Helena/.node-red/node_modules/node-red-node-twilio exists?

Nick

[Helena N]

So I found something interesting: 

There are 3 things in my Node-Red folder but non are Twilio so I opened the actual folder to take a closer look.

Turns out .node-red is actually a hidden file so "node_modules" was saved under User/Helena instead of User/Helena/.node-red.

I moved the file and problem solved. 

Thanks Nick and to all of the guys who answered/helped my question! 

I'll be sticking around.

Best,

H

[Nicholas O'Leary]

Great - glad you figure out.

We're always here to help :)

Nick

[Dave C-J]

Phew... well done ! and welcome aboard.

[Sarah O'Connor]

I'm having the same problem with mongodb node not appearing in the Node-Red window.

I followed Helena's steps and moved the folder named node_modules containing node-red-node-mongodb to /home/pi/.node-red/

I restarted node-red but it's not appearing. 
I thought maybe it will appear when I have mongo running first, so I followed the instructions here

http://yannickloriot.com/2016/04/install-mongodb-and-node-js-on-a-raspberry-pi/

but sudo service mongod start returns a message saying it failed to start, no such file or directory. I know it is there but I'm not sure where!!

I don't even want a mongo database on the pi, I want to send data to my database on mongolab. 

I'm new to the PI so all pointers much appreciated :)

[Sarah O'Connor]

Update! Found this video raspberry pi to mongolab via node-red

This is exactly what I wanted and so easy :)